Sport Unlimited
The Humber Sports Partnership (HSP) have been working very closely with the four unitary local authorities across the Humber sub-region as well as the seven school sport partnerships and a variety of governing bodies of sport to develop a range sport unlimited activities for young people. The partnership has focussed on 10 – 19 year olds and has challenged numerous providers to think innovatively about what activities they can offer to engage semi sporty young people.
The programme has been built around robust consultation with young people and developed into a comprehensive range of activities being offered. All the activity is taking place out of school hours and activities include a mix of both traditional and non-traditional sporting activities, from football and cricket through to cheerleading and street dance. Activities are taking place at a range of settings, including leisure centre’s, sports clubs, school sites, parks and open spaces and all activities have started to run for a minimum of 10 weeks, with the view to ensuring long term sustainability.
The programme started to role out across the Humber sub-region at the beginning of September 2008 and to date their have already been some fantastic
results. For example twilight football in the East Riding has already attracted 130 young people across three difference geographic sites (Beverley, Bridlington and Goole). The Beverley site had no reports to the Police on the evening in which the activity was delivered. Due to the partnership working with Humberside Police at a strategic level instigated by North East Lincolnshire Council, PCSO’s have been at every session and this programme is now being delivered across the whole sub-region.