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August 2007

Welcome to the Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-On-Trent
monthly e-newsletter.

In this issue...

- County Sports Partnership Update
- Sport England Update
- Promoting Sport Toolkit
- 2012 Roadshow Visits Stafford
- Chase It Plus (13 - 19 years)
- Staffordshire FA Mini Women's World Cup Day
- Staffordshire FA Women's Futsal League
- Longton Harriers off to a flying start with Football Foundation Grant
- Inside British Tennis

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	County Sports Partnership Update For the latest news on Community Investment Funding Awards and to read about the Regional Governing Bodies hitting the jackpot with lottery funding and the West Midlands Brokerage Service pilot, take a look at the County Sports Partnership update .....
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	Sport England Update Catch up on all the latest Sport England updates including consultation re 'shaping the future of sport', the Government's 10 Year Youth Strategy and more ....
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Promoting Sport Toolkit

Sport England has created a free, easy-to use Promoting Sport Toolkit designed to help clubs, sports development officers and volunteers promote their sport or activities.

The toolkit is designed to help anyone working in sport - paid or unpaid - produce high quality campaigns and marketing material such as posters, leaflets and flyers that can be used to promote sport....

	2012 Roadshow Visits Stafford The London 2012 Roadshow rolled into Stafford this month, when it visited Stafford Borough Council's Main Event at Rowley Park. Olympic triple jump gold medallist Jonathan Edwards and Commonwealth Gold Swimmer Adam Whitehead were also in attendance to promote the 2012 Olympics and to encourage the people of Staffordshire to take part in sport....
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	Chase It Plus (13 - 19 years) Chase It Plus is a Cannock Chase Council run programme that looks to engage hard to reach young people through a range of physical and creative activities....
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Staffordshire FA Mini Women's World Cup Day

As you may, or may not be aware, The Women's World Cup is taking place in China this September. England's Women's Football Team have qualified and will start their campaign to bring the trophy home against Japan on Tuesday 12^th September as part of the First Round of Group Matches. England will also play Germany and Argentina in a bid to reach the Quarter Finals...

Staffordshire FA Women's Futsal League

Staffordshire FA have recently organised Staffordshire's first Futsal League. Futsal is the format of Small Sided Football that is recognised and supported by FIFA and UEFA and is the game which you will see Ronaldinho playing on the TV adverts, with players from all around the World playing Futsal to support their development in becoming some of the most skilful players today.

The FA are embracing Futsal to support the development of players and are using the game to increase the level and number of skilful players we have in the Country....

Longton Harriers off to a flying start with Football Foundation Grant

Grass roots sport in Longton and the surrounding areas in Stoke-on-Trent received a boost following a £164,462 award to Longton Harriers Football Club by the Football Foundation, the UK's largest sports charity....

Inside British Tennis

British Tennis has been working hard to deliver its relatively new Blueprint and measures of success (number of players in top 100 in the world, number of 12-18 year olds on track for top 100 and number of juniors regularly competing). Behind the scenes The Lawn Tennis Association has also been developing new ways of communicating, both internally and externally, using the latest technology.....