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<p>As part of the £l billion Youth and Community sport strategy, Sport England is investing:</p><p>(i) in a number projects specifically targeting women and girls. These include:</p><p>£2.3 million for a year-long pilot in Bury that is looking at ways to break down barriers and get the town's women more active and involved in sport. It's about listening and giving women what they want—whether that be Zumba classes or a game of rounders after they've dropped their children off at school. Best practice from this pilot could then be rolled out nationwide;</p><p>100 “girls only” satellite clubs—community sports clubs in secondary schools for 11 to 25-year-olds. The ambition is to have 5,000 satellite clubs by 2017;</p><p>£10 million to target women living in deprived areas, and women with children under the age of 16;</p><p>£1.7 million to the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation.</p><p>(ii) £170.8 million to promote participation by people with disabilities, including:</p><p>£1.98 million to English Federation of Disability Sport;</p><p>£1.37 million to seven National Disability Sports Organisations to provide disability and impairment expertise;</p><p>£17.2 million Inclusive Sport fund to make sport a practical choice for disabled people;</p><p>£1 million Get Equipped fund for specialist sports equipment.</p><p>(iii) £1 million in its National Partner Sporting Equals to provide expertise to the national governing bodies of boxing, tennis, cricket, swimming and football on maximising the impact of their programmes in increasing the number of black, Asian and minority ethnic groups playing sport.</p><p>The Active People Survey shows that since 2010:</p><p>334,300 more women are playing sport once a week every week;</p><p>208,000 more people with physical or learning disabilities are playing sport once a week every week;</p><p>121,600 people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups are playing sport once a week every week.</p> |