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About LIVING SPORT

We want more people to take part in sport and physical activity and LIVING SPORT’s vision is “active and healthy communities where everyone can play, achieve and enjoy”. Our aim is to work with a wide range of individuals and organisations involved in sport, bringing them together to form one powerful single voice for sport in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

The vision will be delivered by engaging with key local strategic priorities and partners and promote the importance and value of sport and highlighting the benefits it can bring to local communities. Through supporting sports clubs, organisations and the sporting workforce, we will help improve the quality and quantity of sport delivered in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

LIVING SPORT partners include District, City and County Councils, School Sports Partnerships, National Governing Bodies of Sport, Children and Young Peoples Services to deliver positive activities for young people and the Voluntary and Community Sector. We are escalating our engagement with health services to increase physical activity to tackle obesity and with education and training partners to develop people’s skills and employability.

LIVING SPORT is responsible for delivering a number of sports initiatives including:

• Sportivate – to provide opportunities to attract more young people aged 14-25 into regular sport.
• Youth Games PLUS -bringing together young people with disabilities or additional needs from both special and mainstream schools
• Sports Awards -celebrating local sporting achievement by sports people, clubs, schools, coaches and volunteers
• Sport Makers -aiming to recruit, train and deploy young people aged 16 and over to organise and lead community sporting activities across Cambridgeshire
• Dancing for Fun and Better Health – targeted at encouraging over-50’s to become more active.
• Get Back Into -providing opportunities for adults (16yrs+) to get back into sport or physical activity

Part of our responsibility is to play a leading role in GOLD - the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Coordinating Group for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. GOLD will:

• Ensure there is a clear and supportive route in place for those with the potential to participate at higher levels, whether they are players, coaches or officials.
• And to exploit the excitement and enthusiasm that is presented to leave a lasting legacy of improvement and increased participation in sport in our communities

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