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The ground-breaking, Sport England-funded Us Girls programme aims to get 30,000 young women more active through sport and physical activity.

Presentation - Recent changes in health behaviours of young women and the new public health system

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David Buck of the King's Fund on the recent changes in health behaviours of young women and the new public health system.

Presentation - The importance of programmes targeting young women from disadvantaged areas

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Jennie Price, CEO of Sport England, presents on the importance of sports programmes that target young women who live in the country's most deprived communities.

Presentation - What Girls Think, Feel & Do – The Findings of the Us Girls Programm

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Karen Keohane, National Programme Manager of Us Girls, and Dr Laura Hills, Senior Lecturer at Brunel University present the findings of the Us Girls programme

Presentation - Introduction to Us Girls

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Claire Wheeler of Us Girls introduces the programme

How to...boost body image with exercise

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Us Girls guide

Us Girls has used research into perceptions of body image amongst young women who come from low socio-economic backgrounds to create this 'how to' guide on boosting body image through exercise. The guide is an ideal tool for doorstep sport coaches, project leaders and volunteers who work with young women.

View How to...boost body image with exercise here » 

Fundraising resources for doorstep sport projects

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Fundraising is vital to doorstep sport projects, yet few organisations have dedicated staff to focus on it. In the current economic environment there are less grants and sponsorship opportunities available and therefore the competition for grants has never been tougher. However, there are still plenty of opportunities to secure new funding, especially in the small grants sector. 

StreetGames has vast experience in successful fundraising - from large national grants to small local grants.

Research on badminton at StreetGames / Us Girls projects

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StreetGames research

This research aimed to gather information about badminton from a range of StreetGames and Us Girls projects throughout England in order to identify what is working well, identify key learning points and key challenges for projects. The findings in this report have been based on the responses from ten phone interviews - six Us Girls projects and four StreetGames projects.

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Impairment-specific coaching awareness factsheets

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sports coach UK and NDSO factsheets 

sports coach UK and the National Disability Sport Organisations (NDSOs) have written eight impairment guides to provide some ‘top tips’ and ‘considerations when working with various impairment groups’.

All eight are available below in PDF format:

Research on netball at StreetGames / Us Girls projects

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StreetGames research

This research aimed to gather information about netball from a range of StreetGames/Us Girls projects throughout England in order to identify what is working well, identify key learning points and key challenges for projects. Eight projects were contacted and interviewed by phone. The findings in this report are based on their responses.

View the research paper here »

StreetGames quarterly monitoring reports

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The following papers provide a quarterly overview of the monitoring data provided by StreetGames projects:

StreetGames October 2011 - December 2011 Monitoring Report »

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