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Festival of Youth Sport
Published: 27/05/2014
Schools throughout Flintshire joined together to take part in this year’s
Festival of Youth Sport. Over 2200 children from 64 schools took part in 12
events at nine different venues.
The event, sponsored by Sport Wales and run by Sport Flintshire, is in its
eighth year and is the largest of its kind in Wales. Part of the programme
offers free sports coaching to children in new and traditional sports including
basketball, cheerleading, street dance, unihoc, football, handball, dodgeball,
cricket, athletics, wheelchair basketball, scootering and badminton in the
months leading up to the event. It also gives children opportunities to take
part in local community clubs, encouraging them to get ‘hooked on sport for
life’.
Asda supported the event, which was held on Thursday 15 May, as part of their
Asda Active Sports Days, powered by Sports Leaders UK who provided volunteer
young leaders and coaches. They also supplied refreshments throughout the day
at one of the venues, Deeside Leisure Centre.
Councillor Chris Bithell, Cabinet Member for Education said: “There was a
fantastic turnout for the event, children had taken advantage of the free
coaching and really enjoyed the day. This year, schools were allocated
Commonwealth countries to advocate the Commonwealth games and its legacy within
Flintshire from the Glasgow games taking place in July 2014. Hopefully this
will inspire pupils to carry on enjoying sport.”
Sport Wales Manager, Graham Williams said: “Sport Wales are delighted to have
again supported the annual Flintshire Festival of Youth Sport.
“Each year the festival proves to be increasingly successful, reaching growing
numbers of youngsters, with new exciting sporting opportunities, which makes
huge contributions to our ambition of getting every child hooked on sport for
life.”