Creating a Sporting Habit for Life
Date: 14 Feb 2012
Creating a Sporting Habit for Life
Every secondary school in England is set to host a community sports club, as part of a new strategy to encourage young people to play sport for life. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced in January.
The move is a key part of a £1 billion, five-year youth and community sport strategy that will deliver on Lord Coe’s 2012 Games bid promise to inspire a generation to get involved in sport.
The strategy, to be delivered by Sport England, will see new school-based sports clubs established with links to one or more sports’ national governing bodies. Expert coaches will run sessions to help create strong ties between schools and local sports clubs already in existence in their area. Football has pledged that 2,000 of their clubs will be linked to secondary schools by 2017, rugby union 1,300 clubs, cricket, 1,250 clubs and rugby league and tennis 1,000 clubs each.
