East Midlands Youth Sport Festival Comes To Nottingham

July 14, 2010 - PRLog -- On Saturday the 24th of July, 10am to 5pm, Nottingham Trent University will play host to the East Midlands StreetGames Festival – a youth sports day with a difference!  A variety of different sports will be on offer and there are a number of prizes to be won, courtesy of Sporting Futures and StreetGames. The event is taking place during the official 2012 Open Weekend, celebrating two years until the London Olympic & Paralympic Games.

StreetGames, a national youth sports development charity, has teamed up with Sporting Futures, who are working to create safer communities through sport within Derbyshire, to organise the East Midlands StreetGames Festival. StreetGames helps local providers develop “doorstep sport” projects that allow young people to dictate what sports they want to play and how they want to play them. Consequently, a variety of sports will be available at the event, including football, Ultimate Frisbee and street dance.

The ethos of StreetGames is to provide sport in disadvantaged communities where young people often miss out on opportunities to participate. This national charity works with Sporting Futures in the East Midlands to assure that these sports sessions are widely available.

Ben Rigby, Community Sport Development Officer for Sporting Futures, said of the festival: “It’s brilliant to be involved in such a positive event. It demonstrates our commitment to providing free and easily accessible sports for young people in the East Midlands area. I’m sure everyone involved will have a great time and hopefully it will have a lasting effect on the communities and people involved.”

Carrying the London 2012 Inspire Mark for its Legacy Leaders programme, StreetGames continues to grow and develop doorstep sport projects across the East Midlands and the rest of England and Wales. What will be a fun and exciting day for young people in and around the Nottingham area will also mark an increasing determination to provide sport to all young people no matter what their circumstances.

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StreetGames is an award winning national charity launched in 2007. A national partner of Sport England and a national centre of expertise for developing sport in disadvantaged communities, the charity helps to make sport accessible to all young people, regardless of their income or social circumstances, It does this by supporting and establishing local projects around the UK that deliver doorstep sport, i.e. positive activities and sport provided to young people when they want it, where they want it and how they want it. Over 1million attendances have already been generated by StreetGames projects.

StreetGames’ ongoing work to change sport, communities and lives has been recognised by The Chief Medical Officer’s Public Health Awards, The Charity Awards, The Business Charity Awards and Beyond Sport. For full details of our awards success, visit the ‘About Us’ section on our website www.streetgames.org.