Examples of Good Practice in Community Sport
Northamptonshire County Council
The Youth Sports Co-ordinators Programme is a 3 year Active England funded project developed by the County Council’s Sports Development Unit. The programme commenced delivery in October 2005. The original aims being to establish and develop a programme of sport and physical activity within the County Council’s Youth Service Provision...
The West Glebe Development in Corby
The project was a new build of a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) and an Astro-Turf on an open space area in the centre of town. 2 part-time activity co-ordinators have helped the project to be incredibly successful and the young people in the local community have benefited the most...
Daventry - Sports Park Youth Group
This initiative is to target young people aged between 11-16 years during term time and those who do not have the opportunity to participate in sport. The 3 main aims are to increase sport and physical activity levels, decrease the amount of petty crime and anti-social behaviour and to raise the profile of the Sports Park...
East Northants - Rural Community Programme (RCP)
Linking to the aspirations of the Council's Community strategy and Sport England's requirement to achieve 1% increase in participation of sport and physical activity the RCP was developed to combat social exclusion of young people in rural areas during holiday periods... Health walks in South Northants aim to get more people walking in their own communities, especially those who are sedentary, take little exercise or live in areas of poor health. We provide led walks, where 2 trained volunteer walk leaders guide each walk. Maps are also provided so people can undertake independent walks.....