England

StreetGames’ role as a national partner of Sport England sees us work with national governing bodies (NGB) of sport to help them bring their sport to young people in deprived areas.

We continue to work in partnership with a number of NGBs to piloting, testing and refining products for young people from deprived areas. Examples of our work in March include:

StreetGames’ role as a national partner of Sport England sees us work with national governing bodies (NGB) of sport to help them bring their sport to young people in deprived areas.

We continue to work in partnership with a number of NGBs to piloting, testing and refining products for young people from deprived areas. Examples of our work in January and February include:

The second annual Us Girls Conference - Get In The Know - witnessed a memorable display of emotions - from laughter and smiles to the tears which accompanied the first-ever Us Girls Awards.

StreetGames’ role as a national partner of Sport England sees us work with national governing bodies (NGB) of sport to help them bring their sport to young people in deprived areas.

We continue to work in partnership with a number of NGBs to piloting, testing and refining products for young people from deprived areas. Examples of our work in December include:

Us Girls participants in Bristol have added their voices to an academic study into perceptions of body image amongst young women who come from low socio-economic backgrounds.

The study was part of a PhD by Daisy Townsend, Researcher and Associate Lecturer at the University of the West of England. Researching the issues around female body image, she used the evidence provided by the Us Girls participants to validate previous studies by Lindwall and Lingren in Sweden in 2006 and Ginis, Bassett and Conlin in the Oxford handbook of exercise psychology, 2012.