Sports: Females

(asked on 25th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to increase the participation of teenage girls in out-of-school sports clubs.


Answered by
Helen Grant Portrait
Helen Grant
This question was answered on 4th March 2015

Sport England invests £49 million in Satellite Clubs which bring community sports clubs into schools and colleges. There are over 4,000 clubs already up and running, of which over 500 are girls-only. Sport England estimates that over 20,000 girls are now playing sport in girls-only Satellite Clubs.

Sportivate is a £56 million Sport England programme which gives 14-25 year olds (male and female), who are not particularly sporty, access to six to eight weeks of free or subsidised coaching in a range of sports. Over half a million young people have taken part in Sportivate, of which over 40 per cent were girls. Over 80 per cent of these young people successfully completed their coached sessions.

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