The YSF Podcast

Charlotte Ellis, Ed Montague (both Yorkshire Sport Founation) chat with Kris Mackay (Founder of Growing Circles) about the YSF approach to engaging with community groups as part of the Together Fund.

The Together Fund was a continuation of the Tackling Inequalities Fund that was set up in April 2020 as part of Sport England's support package to help the sport and physical activity sector through the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis.

It saw another £20 million of National Lottery funding committed to help the groups disproportionately affected by the pandemic and it was significantly impacting their ability to be physically active.

Host: Andy Morgan

The Navigating Local Systems (NLS) work began in the autumn of 2019 and sits alongside the work of Sport England's Local Delivery Pilots. This episode focuses on that work in Wakefield.

NLS helps people and organisations to better understand and connect local systems through developing their knowledge, skills and capacity to drive the change needed to increase physical activity within local communities where the need is the greatest. 

We go through the approach taken so far:

·         Doing things differently

·         Positivity and energy building

·         All leading together

·         We're more connected

·         Learning new skills and approaches together

·         Collaboration is important

Guests
Louise Upton, Strategic Lead, Place Collaboration and Learning Team, Sport England
Amy Sharp, Health Improvement Manager, Wakefield Council
Ken Masser, Miova
Gayle Elvidge, Development Manager (Wakefield), Yorkshire Sport Foundation.

Resources
Sport England - Local Delivery: https://www.sportengland.org/funds-and-campaigns/local-delivery 

Navigating Local Systems: Test and learn approach to system change - https://cloa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Final-Navigating-Local-Systems.pdf

As part of National School Sport Week, we speak with a primary school in Leeds who have had success and seen wider benefits from engaging in competitive table tennis.

Shakespeare Primary School in Leeds competed in the national schools finals at under 11s girls level earlier this academic year, becoming the first West Yorkshire school in 30 years to reach the national finals at that age group.

We chat to the sixth school to be accredited as a Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity.

The school has earned the status for its approach to before and after school clubs, providing a wide variety of free opportunities for all pupils and their families, forming a vital part of the school’s vision, enrichment programme and pupil offer.

We turn the sportlight on ourselves, talking through our journey so far in changing the way we operate to minimise any negative impact on the climate.

To read our annual climate report and access our climate policy, visit our website: https://bit.ly/3omt8GC

Active Humber Chief Executive, David Gent joins us for the second in our Climate Series 2023.

David is one of the driving forces behind the sport and physical activity sector playing its role in addressing the climate emergency, sitting on national groups with many large sporting organisations.

David shares with us why he has a personal passion for the climate and what prompted him to make it a significant part of his working life.

Read more about Active Humber's work on the climate: https://bit.ly/3ooU9t4

We speak to Richard Lindsay from Birmingham FA about their award winning 'Save Today, Play Tomorrow' programme.

Find out more on the Birmingham FA website - https://bit.ly/3LbkgwE 

New Road Primary School share their story of becoming a Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity.

The school was accredited in the 'Before and after school clubs' category in early 2023, with their innovative approach including 'Family Fitness' sessions.

Guests (All New Road Primary Staff
Sharon Harwood - Headteacher
Lee McGrath - Leads Active Schools
Becky Mitchell - PE lead
Emily Heckler - Sports coach

A Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity, Springvale Primary School in Barnsley share their story with us.

The school were accredited as a Centre of Excellence for their approach to before and after school clubs.

We're joined by Headteacher, Lee McClure; PE Lead, Nic Exley; and school governor, Andy Noble.

Birkby Infant and Nursery School are the latest Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity, and we speak to them about how they achieved the status in the category of 'Physically Active Learning'.

Guests
Paula Manser - PE lead and Senior Leader
Damian Gomersall - Year 2 teacher and computing lead
Rachel Sewell - Year 1 teacher and science lead 

Host
Andy Morgan, Media Manager at Yorkshire Sport Foundation.