Sport Unlimited update - School News - North Somerset SSP

Sport Unlimited is a National three year programme being delivered across England, spearheaded by Sport England, but led and managed locally by the Sport and Active Lifestyles team.

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 two hours of term time high quality sports activities through attractive provision designed to stimulate and increase take up and sustain participation"

The Sport Unlimited programme is just beginning the third year of delivery. To date, more than 7800 young people have been retained in Sport Unlimited activities across the West of England. The programme is aiming to maximise the excitement created by the 2012 Games to engage new young people, who have not previously participated regularly in sport and physical activity.

The current summer term has seen 49 programmes organised within North Somerset with the potential to engage with over 900 young people. The deadline has now passed for the autumn term and we have had applications for over 90 eight week programmes, again with the potential to engage with well over 1,500 young people within North Somerset.