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North Tyneside Announce Disability Sports Forum
Published 5 March 2010 Disabled adults from across North Tyneside are being invited to a Disability Sports Forum on Friday 19 March. The meeting, which will take place at the Oxford Centre, ... read more...

Newcastle to Host Canoe Polo Event
Published 5 March 2010 The North East has been chosen to play host to its first ever Canoe Polo national ranking event. The event, which will take place on Saturday 13 March, will be hosted at ... read more...

UKCC To Undergo Review
Published 25 February 2010 It has been announced that Sport England, sports coach UK and Skills Active are to spearhead a review of the UKCC. The review will be conducted in partnership with ... read more...

Newcastle Dominate Tyne & Wear Badminton Finals
Published 18 February 2010 Newcastle Schools dominated the Tyne and Wear Sports Finals of the Center Parcs National Inter-Schools Badminton Championships. In the Key Stage 3 Finals, held at John ... read more...

Hedworthfield Primary Win Interschool Netball Tournament
Published 18 February 2010 Hedworthfield Primary School narrowly beat off competition from Simonside Primary School to win South Tyneside’s Year 4 Netball High 5 tournament. The competition, ... read more...

Change4Life To Help Adults Lose Their Spare Tyres
Published 18 February 2010 After a successful first year the Change4Life initiative is set to launch a new campaign to encourage adults to alter their eating habits. The new television and ... read more...

London 2012 Launch Legacy Initiatives
Published 16 February 2010 The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games has launched two initiatives aimed at kick starting the Olympic Legacy. From the 1 to 3 May ... read more...

Isa Guha wins BASA Sports Personality of the Year
Published 9 February 2010 Sporting Equals ambassador and England Women's cricket star Isa Guha has rounded off a successful twelve months by being announced as the 2009 British Asian Sports Awards ... read more...

Applications Open for National Lottery Awards 2010
Published 8 February 2010 The annual search for the UK’s favourite Lottery funded projects has begun with the launch of the National Lottery Awards 2010. The awards are aimed at projects that ... read more...

Sport Relief - Rise to the Challenge
Published 05 February 2010 Friday 19th March - Sunday 21st March is Sport Relief weekend. Sport Relief aims to get the UK to come together to get active, raise money and change lives. Money raised ... read more...

FA Launch Disability Coaching Programme
Published 3 February 2010 Northumberland FA are offering young people with disabilities in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland four weeks of free football coaching. The 3 Lions Football Coaching ... read more...

The Times Annouce Top 10 Fitness Sites
Published 29 January 2010 The Times has given its readers a helping hand when it comes to shedding that excess holiday weight by announcing their top 10 fitness websites. The sites range from the ... read more...

Chris Cook Launches Swimfit
Published on 25 January 2010 Swimfit is an online swimming tool to support all swimmers. There are a bank of sessions that can be used to supplement your masters sessions. Registration is free at ... read more...

Athletics Flying Coach Programme
Published 21 January 2010 This programme will provide athletics clubs in our region with a great opportunity to make their club inclusive and work towards being a quality exit route for athletes ... read more...

Let's Dance Funding Now Available
Published 20 January 2010 Organisations across the region are being given the opportunity to apply for funding to help deliver a weekend of free dance activities. As part of Let’s Dance, the ... read more...

Blind Football Coming to the North East
Published 20 January 2010 British Blind Sport and the Royal National College for the Blind are hosting a celebration of Blind Football here in the North East. The road show, which will take place ... read more...

Dance Views Wanted
Published 20 January 2010 The Dance Champions Group (www.dancechampions.org.uk) was set up in October 2009 by the Government in a bid to use well known faces to promote the activity of dancing in ... read more...

WSFF Release Free Factsheets
Published 19 January 2010 The Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) has produced a series of free, downloadable factsheets that give comprehensive analysis of how women participate and are ... read more...

Wheelchair Rugby League Rolls Into Town
Published 19 January 2010The Percy Hedley Sports Academy in Killingworth played host to a Wheelchair Rugby League master class this week, when World Cup winning England Player Phil Roberts held a ... read more...

Pride of South Tyneside Awards
Published 18 January 2010 Do you know someone who deserves a Pride of South Tyneside award? Held in association with main event sponsor, Siemens Transmission and Distribution Limited, ... read more...

College announce Sport and Leisure course
Published 15 January 2010 City of Sunderland College has announced that it will be running a Sports Routeway course to help interested individuals break into the Sport and Leisure industry. The ... read more...

North East Disability Sports Awards - Nominations Open
Published 06 January 2010 Do you know a person, team or a group of individuals who deserve special recognition for taking part or helping to develop sport for disabled people? The npower North ... read more...

Priory Primary Progress to Rugby League Play-off
Published 15 December 2009Priory Primary School Year 6 won the North Tyneside Schools Rugby League Festival held at Whitehouse Primary last Thursday. They emerged triumphant from the pool for ... read more...

South Tyneside School Sport
Published 14 December 2009 South Tyneside School Sport Partnership and South Tyneside Sport Development Team recently organised a host of sport activities. read more...

North Tyneside Announce Indoor Rowing Competition
Published 11 December 2009North Tyneside's second Indoor Rowing Competition is taking place on 18 January 2010 at John Spence Community High School. The event is open to anyone over the age of ... read more...

Youngsters Given Chance to Attend Gym Sessions
11-19 year olds in Sunderland are being given the opportunity to attend ten Wellness or gym sessions for only £10. The initiative, which has been launched by Sport Unlimited in partnership with ... read more...

Talent 2012 Looking For Potential Paralympians
Published 10 December 2009 Talent 2012 are on the look out for potential Paralympians as part of their latest Talent Identification Initiative. If you have an impairment, a UK passport, a ... read more...

Clubmark Release Figures For Tyne & Wear
Published 10 December 2009 Clubmark have released figures for 2009, and it's more good news for Tyne & Wear Sport. The CSP has 100 Clubmark accredited clubs with a further 64 working towards ... read more...

Living For Sport Announces Mentors For 2009/10
Published 10 December 2009 Gold medal winners and champions from the worlds of athletics, boxing, gymnastics and BMX are among the sports stars available to inspire and motivate young people as ... read more...

Paratriathlon Performance Squad application now open
Published 10 December 2009 The application process for the 2010 Paratriathlon Performance Squad (PPS) is now open. The PPS is looking for people with a proven competition history in the Triathlon ... read more...

National Skills Academy leading Future Jobs Fund bid
Published 24 November 2009 The National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure have been chosen to lead the sport sector bid to the Future Jobs Fund. The bid aims to get 3,000 unemployed ... read more...

North Tyneside Launch Widening Horizons 4 Sport
Published 19 November 2009 A new initiative has been launched by North Tyneside Council to help improve and increase sporting experiences. Widening Horizons 4 Sport will offer residents the ... read more...

Tyne & Wear Swimmers Secure Medals at Championships
Published 18 November 2009Thousands of swimmers flocked to Sheffield for the 2009 British Gas ASA Masters & Senior Age Group Championships (25m). Tyne and Wear saw competitors from City of ... read more...

BBC North East Unsung Hero
Published 17 November 2009 Ken Sykes, Head coach at Whitley Bay Barbarians Rugby League Club has been shortlisted to the final three for the North East BBC Sports Unsung hero 2009. Ken was ... read more...

Tall and Talented Britons Given More Time to Reach Rio
Published 16 November 2009UK Sport has extended the deadline for the Tall and Talented initiative by an extra week until Monday 23 November 2009. The aim of the scheme is to find athletes ... read more...

Adopt an Athlete this Christmas
Published 16 November 2009 The British Athlete's Commission (BAC) is offering an alternative to your regular Christmas gifts this festive season - they're giving you the chance to adopt an athlete. ... read more...

South Shields Olympian new Living For Sport Mentor
Published 11 November 2009 South Shields born Olympic and World Championship swimming star Chris Cook has been announced as one of the new Athlete Mentors for the Sky Sports Living For Sport ... read more...

Outdoor Basketball Initiative Plans to Build Arena
Published 06 November 2009 The Outdoor Basketball Initiative (OBI) has announced that they are looking for a partner to help establish an outdoor basketball arena. The arena will be available for ... read more...

Newcastle Vipers to Try and Make History
Published 05 November 2009 The Newcastle Vipers are aiming to make North East Ice Hockey history by getting 5,000 spectators for two consecutive home games. The Drive for Five campaign hopes to ... read more...

Newcastle Eagles Flying High After Workshop
Published 05 November 2009 Newcastle Eagles have seen their membership grow after putting the advice gathered during a workshop to good use. The club visited a session being ran by Sport England's ... read more...

Whitley Bay Pool is Pretty in Pink
Published 02 November 2009 Swimmers were in the pink when they attended Waves in Whitley Bay. That’s because the water in the North Tyneside Council leisure pool turned pink on Saturday 24 ... read more...

Stars Launch Campaign To Get Nation Dancing
Published 20 October 2009The Department of Health's 'Dance Champions' will embark on a nationwide tour to get the country dancing. Dance stars including Arlene Phillips, former Come Dancing ... read more...

Nominations for BBC North East Sports Awards Now Open
Published 14 October 2009The North East Sports Awards are upon us again and the judging panel want your suggestions for worthy winners - whether it be coaches, volunteers, elite performers or ... read more...

ASA Announce Inaugural Tyne & Wear Teacher Conference
The Amateur Swimming Association has announced details of the first ever Tyne & Wear School Swimming Teachers Conference. The event, which takes place on Thursday 17 December at ... read more...

Can you host a Sport Relief Mile?
Published 09 October 2009Sport Relief is looking for volunteers to help make sure that the latest campaign gets off to a flying start. The charity event, which launches in January 2010, is focused ... read more...

Tyneside Badminton Star Strikes Gold
Published 02 October 2009Disabled star badminton player Will Smith (shown in the blue t-shirt) has been adding to his collection of medals. Will, who is currently in his second year of studying ... read more...