February 2009

Funding Awarded for Community Sport
Published 24 February 2009 In July 2007, following discussions with the CSPs in the North East, Sport England North East announced its intention to devolve £4.5m of Community Investment Funding ... read more...

First in Country to Achieve Award
Published 24 February 2009 The Tyne & Wear Sport partnership has successfully achieved the Advanced Level of the NSPCC National Safeguarding Standards following our portfolio submission in ... read more...

Playground to Podium
Published 23 February 2009 Tyne & Wear has been selected to hold a regional Playground to Podium pilot event which will take place in June 2009. Playground to Podium is a dedicated initiative ... read more...

Special Needs Sports Courses Success
Published 22 February 2009 Tyne & Wear Sport, in partnership with Percy Hedley Sports Academy, recently organised four Special Needs Sports Courses to help provide teachers, school sport ... read more...

National Physical Activity Plan
Published 22 February 2009Dawn Primarolo, Minister of State for Public Health, announced at the LGA Healthier Communities Conference this month that the Department of Health (DoH), as part of the ... read more...

World Winter Games Team Sets Off
Published 03 February 2009 Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) has sent a delegation of ten learning disabled athletes to Boise, Idaho to compete at the Special Olympics World Winter Games, 7-13 ... read more...