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Sports Development Team wins Door Step Sports Club of the Year award

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St Helens Council’s Sports Development Team is celebrating after winning a national award for their Youth Sports programme.

Representatives from the Sports Development Team travelled down to Warwick for the StreetGames national conference which concluded with an annual awards ceremony, where they were announced the Door Step Sports Club of the Year.

The award recognises projects that provide a vibrant and varied sporting offer to young people aged 14 to 24 with the aim of increasing motivation and sporting participation, and Sports Development’s Youth Sports were singled out for praise for their weekly programme of free activities.

Activities include football, gym sessions, roller discos, basketball, dance fitness, darts and girl’s rugby league, with the majority of the funding granted from StreetGames, a national charity set up to change lives and change communities for the better.

Mark Jennings, who runs the programme, said: “We’re absolutely delighted to win the Door Step Sports Club of the Year award, and be recognised as best in the country.

“It is a testimony to all the great work that we do for the benefit of the community and we will go from strength to strength to ensure that we reach out to more people across the borough.”

St Helens Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, Councillor Andy Bowden, said: “Having visited the Youth Sports programme and seen the offer in full, I know all the young people involved in the sessions thoroughly enjoy the variety of activities available. Congratulations to all involved, it is great recognition for the hard work that goes on.”

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