Young Peoples Activities
Active Sports is designed to assist young people between the
ages of 10-16 years to improve sporting skills. Active Sports will
work to achieve the following objectives
- Equal access for all young people
- Co-ordinate and improve coaching and competition
opportunities
- Create and support local assessment and development squads
- Increase numbers and quality of coaches, officials and
volunteers
The Active Sports Programmes have five main aims that apply to
all the ten active sports including Athletics, Basketball, Cricket,
Girls Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby League, Rugby Union,
Swimming and Tennis:-
- Provide more coaching opportunities for young people
- Provide more opportunities for young people to join junior
clubs
- Create more junior clubs and sections
- Generate more coaches and better quality coaching
- Generate more umpires and better quality umpiring