Welcome to the new South Yorkshire Sport Unlimited website!

Welcome to the South Yorkshire Sport Unlimited website

Have a look around to scout out Sport Unlimited activities going on in South Yorkshire!

The Deliverers' Zone is for Sport Unlimited coaches and organisers and is the main port of call for all information to support you in managing and delivering your project....

This includes posters to download, how to guides, how to access support for your project and who to contact if you need help!

What is Sport Unlimited?

Sport Unlimited is a National 3-year programme being delivered across England, spearheaded by Sport England but led and managed locally by County Sport Partnerships. The headline aim of the National Sport Unlimited programme is:

“to ensure up to 900,000 children and young people in the 5 to 19 age range from the ‘semi sporty’ population segment take up an additional 2 hours of term time high quality sports activities ‘through attractive provision designed to stimulate and increase take up and sustain participation”

Sport unlimited contributes to local sport provision for children and young people and is part of the national ambition to provide five hours of high quality sports  to 5-16 year olds (and three hours for 16-19 year olds).  This five hour ambition is a central posit of the National PE and School Sport Strategy for Young People (PESSYP).

Sport Unlimited typically involves the provision of 8-10 week blocks of activity, delivered out of school hours in school and community settings.  A range of deliverers are involved in the delivery of provision and there are a number of sport activities that young people can access.  Sport Unlimited is designed as an introduction to sport for young people, giving them crucial tasters of what participation in sport can be like.  The aim of Sport Unlimited is that young people transit into regular sport participation within the community in clubs and leisure centres and other settings.

More information about the Sport Unlimited programme nationally can be found on the Sport England web pages.

South Yorkshire Sport, as the County Sport Partnership covering the South Yorkshire sub-region are responsible for managing the Sport Unlimited programmed locally.  this management includes the power to devolve funding to support Sport Unlimited delivery.  We are currently delivering the Year 3 Sport Unlimited programme (April 2010 - March 2011).  In the same way as last year's programme, there are two main routes that projects will be identified, supported and ultimately funded; local projects identified through the four Community Sport Networks but supported directly by South Yorkshire Sport, and Banker projects identified and supported directly by South Yorkshire Sport.

Providing young people with activities that they are interested in, at a time and place they want to participate in them is a large part of what Sport Unlimited tries to provide.  South Yorkshire Sport recently commissioned the Sport Industry Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University to undertake a large scale consultation project in Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster and Sheffield to help find out young people's sport preferences and communications preferences.  More information about this work and the findings can be found in our Deliverer's Zone.