Youth Sport Trust

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The Youth Sport Trust is a British government-funded trust that funds and promotes the provision of youth sport in the UK, partly to have an effect on children's health.

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History

School sport provision had been reduced in the 1980s, due to disputes about teachers' hours in the 1980s.

The Department of National Heritage was formed in 1992. The Trust was formed in September 1994, to get children taking part in competitive sport. [1]

In 1994 the Prime Minister had originally wanted to introduce new Sport Colleges, as part of the Specialist Schools programme. The sports minister Iain Sproat wanted schools to open ten hours more a week, for sport training, and pay teachers £500 more, for any extra work. The Prime Minister had a personal interest to improve school sport provision. The Central Council of Physical Education (now the Sport and Recreation Alliance was much in favour of these new proposals.

The Trust would run the network of the first trance of, around twelve, Sports Colleges. The Sports Colleges would develop elite athletes. The government was looking at improving provision for university sport, and to train possible elite athletes, but it was decided that this plan would not affect a wide enough group of school children, and the government chose instead to try to get more children participating in any sport, whether elite or not.

There were plans, by the Department of Culture, to include sports results in school league tables, but the Education department was against most of the Culture department's proposals. [2]

The government launched the Physical Education, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) in 2002, which the trust supported. In late 2010, its funding was significantly cut. Schools would have to fund their own sport. [3] In February 2012, John Steele, former chief executive of the RFU, took over. [4]

Loughborough site

The trust was officially established around April 1995 at Loughborough University. [5] It was formed by Loughborough University, the National Coaching Council (UK Coaching), and the Sports Council (UK Sport since 1997), in cooperation with Sir John Beckwith, who formed the trust in 1993. [6]

The trust was housed in the Rutland Building, on the university. [7]

Function

Sports Colleges

On Wednesday 12 March 1997 education minister Cheryl Gillan added three Arts Colleges and six Sports Colleges to the specialist schools programme. [8] In 1997, the trust was involved with the setting up of the first six Sports Colleges, with a seminar in Crowborough in East Sussex on Monday 23 June 1997. [9]

The Sports Colleges were often a success, with schools producing many more elite athletes, with some joining national sports teams. [10]

Institute of Youth Sport

In early 1998 the trust set up the Institute of Youth Sport at Loughborough University. [11] [12] The Institute of Youth Sport provided advice on coaching and nutrition for national under-18 sports teams, and there was fitness testing, which provided aerobic and stamina data for medical researchers at the institute. [13]

University undergraduates

From January 2002 it recruited 250 undergraduates to go into schools to be involved with school sport, to coincide with the 2002 Commonwealth Games. It was sponsored by Nestlé UK, and was called Team Nestlé. [14]

Female participation in sport

In January 2000 the trust found that football was popular amongst secondary school girls, and basketball. Only few secondary schools allowed girls to play football. Most girls played netball and hockey, and females were deterred from sport by the choice of sports clothing, such as typical short skirts for outdoor sport. [15] [16] The trust found that the females participating in sport had greater self-esteem and self-confidence.

Women were getting heavier every year. In 1950 a typical British woman weighed 8.5 Stone, was a size 12 and measured 36-24-36. By 2000, a typical British woman weighed over 10 stone, was a size 16, and measured 40-33-42. [17]

With the Norwich Union company, it ran the GirlsActive scheme.

Sports Colleges Conference

It held an annual conference. At the February 2007 conference in Telford, the Prime Minister gave a speech. [18]

Gifted and Talented

It ran a supportive scheme for children who were talented at sport.

In January 2009 it held a four day National Talent Orientation Camp at Loughborough University, with eighty children from six sports were trained by sprinter Jason Gardener, rower Miriam Batten, cyclist James McCallum, hockey player Jon Bleby, canoeist Ian Wynne, and sailor Jonathan Glanfield. Also taking part was mountaineer Jake Meyer, and sports psychiatrist Steve Peters. [19]

UK School Games

It set up the UK School Games, first taking place in Glasgow from 7-10 September 2006. [20]

National School Sports Week

From Monday 28 June 2010, it ran a national week for school sport. Cyclist Chris Hoy visited schools taking part. [21]

Schools Sports Partnerships

In June 1996 the trust launched a national programme, or strategy, to fund local county councils to provide sports development officers for children. It ran the county sports partnerships for schools, until funding was withdrawn in 2010. [22]

Structure

It receives most of its funding from Sport England.

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References

  1. ↑ Times Thursday September 18 1997, page 24
  2. ↑ Times Wednesday June 7 1995, page 10
  3. ↑ Times Thursday October 21 2010, page 11
  4. ↑ Times Thursday February 2 2012, page 64
  5. ↑ Loughborough Echo Friday 3 March 1995, page 77
  6. ↑ Bristol Evening Post Wednesday 12 April 1995, page 63
  7. ↑ Loughborough Echo Friday 30 June 1995, page 69
  8. ↑ Times Thursday Mar 13 1997, page 8
  9. ↑ Uckfield Courier Friday 27 June 1997, page 7
  10. ↑ Times Monday January 25 1999, page 40
  11. ↑ Loughborough Mail Thursday 22 October 1998, page 3
  12. ↑ Loughborough Echo Friday 19 February 1999, page 15
  13. ↑ Times Monday June 29 1998, page 33
  14. ↑ Times Saturday December 8 2001, page 46
  15. ↑ Times Friday January 28 2000, page 15
  16. ↑ Times Saturday November 25 2000, page 17
  17. ↑ Times Thursday April 27 2000, page 13
  18. ↑ Conference
  19. ↑ Times Monday January 12 2009, page 59
  20. ↑ Times Thursday March 30 2006, page 74
  21. ↑ Times Saturday June 26 2010, page 21
  22. ↑ Times Monday November 29 2010, page 25
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