Sport & Physical Activity Education & Young People 2025
Yorkshire Sport Foundation

School Games Impact Report 2024-2025

Yorkshire Sport Foundation delivers the School Games programme across South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, using a blended model of county-wide events and localised SGO-funded projects. The 2024-25 report highlights a strong focus on tackling inequalities, with targeted programmes for inactive girls, children with disabilities, and young people from underrepresented communities. Girls Week — originated by a single Sheffield SGO — expanded into a multi-district initiative reaching over 1,200 girls, winning a national School Games Impact Award. County-wide events engaged 2,217 young people, including 263 with SEND. The localised funding model empowered School Games Organisers to design place-based, pupil-led activity tailored to their communities, with pupil voice central throughout.

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School Games county-wide events across South and West Yorkshire; SGO localised funding projects; Girls Week; physical literacy sessions; MATP challenge events; Panathlon disability sport; cross country finals; Winter Festival at English Institute of Sport; place-based school interventions Custom geography from upload: England

📊Key Metrics

2,217 total attendances across South and West Yorkshire county-wide events Key Metric 1
1,236 girls engaged across Girls Week across multiple schools and districts Key Metric 2
263 children with SEND engaged in county-wide events Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Girls Week scaled from a single pilot lunch club of 10 pupils to a county-wide programme reaching 1,236 girls across 54 schools and 14 stakeholder partners, with 90% of lunch club girls more likely to attend after-school sport provision
  • Place-based physical literacy programme in Barnsley connected young people to local community venues including gyms and fitness centres, with several pupils taking out memberships demonstrating sustained behaviour change beyond the programme
  • South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire MATP Challenge Events successfully delivered for young people with severe and profound learning disabilities, strengthening school links and building plans to expand into adult community provision

📍Geography

Yorkshire and the Humber, Other

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