County Sports Partnership Update

For the latest news on our 'new look' website, our very own Olympic medallist joining the SASSOT team, our Rowing Community Sports Coach receiving a sportscoachUK award, a free Train to Gain event on 4^th Feb 09 and what's new on the Education and Training programme, take a look at the County Sports Partnership update....

Funding for equity projects up for grabs

Thanks to the success of inspirational projects that have gone through this funding scheme, the County Sports Partnership is making a further £5,000 available for individual awards of up to £500 through its ACCESS Across Staffordshire scheme........

Sir Trevor Brooking opened Robert Sutton School's new £1.8m sports facilities

Sir Trevor Brooking visited Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Sports College to officially open its new sports facilities. He unveiled the centre at 11.15am on Wednesday 3rd December at Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Sports College, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, DE15 9SD....

Sebastian Coe meets Staffordshire Youth Parliament and Youth Forum members

Young people representing Staffordshire's Youth Parliament and Youth Forum joined fellow young people from the West Midlands Youth Parliament (WMYP) to meet Sebastian Coe, the double gold winning Olympic medallist and Chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) on 8 December as he made a return visit to the region....

Darren Barton (Rowing) named Participation Coach of the Year

December news from Staffordshire Cricket

Here is the December news from Staffordshire Cricket, for an update on Cheadle Cricket Club and information on Coaches Courses, Sky Sports Coach Awards 2009 and Coalfields Regeneration Grants see here...

Staffordshire success at regional Futsal competition

Three teams from Staffordshire took part in the first ever West Midlands Futsal Tournament, which was held at the Shrewsbury Sports Village in Shropshire, on Wednesday 29th October....

FA Charter Standard & Football Workforce Awards Evening

The Back2Netball scheme in East Staffordshire

Funded by the Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent's 'ACCESS Across Staffordshire' scheme, Back2Netball is a project aimed at women who would like to get back into sport....

British Indoor Rowing Championship

For the fifth year running SRA/Trentham Boat Club attended the British Indoor Rowing Championships held at the NIA.  A little earlier than in previous years, so less time to prepare and get people involved, but we still managed to fill a 57 seater coach with children who wanted to take part; some new to the experience others you would say were like veterans with this being their 4^th time....

Work has started on building a new watersports facility

Work has started on building a new watersports facility at Trentham that is due to be completed in early March. The £350k building, within the Trentham Estate, will be home to Trentham Watersports Association and includes Trentham Boat Club, Trentham Canoe Club and Eccleshall Scouts. The building has been principally funded from two Sport England programmes, the Community Club Development Programme, a Government funded programme, and the Community Investment Fund, the National Lottery fund for sport. Other funding was provided by the Staffordshire Environmental Fund and Eccleshall Scouts, as well as other fundraising activities....

HSBC School's Rugby Festivals

On the 12^th November, at Lichfield RUFC, 15 schools from Staffordshire took part in the HSBC Year 8 Rugby Festival with Weston Road School, Stafford crowned Champions and 16 teams from the County took part in the Year 9 Festival, with Barr Beacon School running out winners....

Swimming news

Nathan Hilton, the Partnership Club Development Coach, has now had the opportunity to visit every swimming club in the partnership and has presented his development plans.   The partnership can now look forward to further swimmer development opportunities for the talented youngsters we have in our clubs....

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent 2012 Conference

The second Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent 2012 Conference will take place on Thursday 26 February 2009 at the Britannia Stadium in Stoke-on-Trent followed by the Staffordshire Cultural Conference....

Record numbers cross the finishing line

Quarterly figures for Sport England's quality accreditation scheme for sports clubs with junior sections report a record increase in newly accredited clubs taking the total to 4,700 Clubmark clubs....

Sport in the Hood - 'Power of Sport' nomination - BBC West Midlands

Stafford half marathon celebrating 25 years

Runners from Staffordshire and beyond are being invited to join in silver anniversary celebrations as the annual Stafford Half Marathon celebrates 25 years.

To mark the occasion and meet the ever-increasing demand for places, promoters Stafford Borough Council's Leisure Services, are increasing the race capacity from 1,500 to 2,000 runners for the event on Sunday 15 March 2009....

Sport England Update

And finally....

And finally for some information on £450,000 of Community Spaces cash up for grabs until January 2009, npower Disability Sports Awards nominations for 2009 and winners of the IFI Awards for 2008 take a look at our 'notice board' page.......