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The Opening School Facilities (OSF) initiative was launched in early 2023 to provide funding for schools to open up their facilities outside of the school day, giving pupils and people from the local community more opportunities to move and helping them to access a wider range of physical activities.
As part of the second year of the project, StreetGames undertook a series of Youth Voice consultation sessions with students in OSF schools. The sessions were carefully designed to enable them to be delivered in a fun and active way, ensuring that young people not only enjoyed the sessions, but were fully engaged throughout.
The sessions were aimed at students identified by the school as inactive or not engaged in sport and physical activity. The aim of the sessions was to find out more about how these young people wanted their community sports provision to look, including activities, style, time and place.
Read more about the Youth Voice research
Throughout the next phase of StreetGames’ OSF work, we will work closely with consortium partners Active Partnerships, Youth Sport Trust and UK Active to help schools to use the findings of the Youth Voice sessions to enhance their community sports provision and ensure their offer is accessible to all students.
Our role within OSF over the coming year will focus on three key areas of work:
- Youth Voice: Supporting schools to interpret Youth Voice research and develop their community sports provision for young people in their community.
- Community Connectivity: Supporting our network of locally trusted organisations to connect to OSF schools.
- Training & Workforce Development: Through our Training Academy, we will provide opportunities for Active Partnerships and schools to upskill their workforce, with the aim of enhancing the community sports provision available for young people in underserved communities. We will also support schools to access leadership and training courses for their students.
