Community

Sport Unlimited is an innovative youth sports programme which cascades funding to local communities via the county sports partnerships network. North Dorset SSP has worked closely with Active Dorset, our local CSP, in order to provide community opportunities for young people in our area.

It's targeted at youngsters who may have some interest in sport, but aren't particularly engaged with community or club sport, so the first step in the programme is to establish what sports young people actually want to do.

Local providers organise 10-week, high-quality Sport Unlimited taster sessions designed to inspire youngsters to sign up for longer-term participation. We aim to get 900,000 young people along to these taster sessions, and want at least a third (300,000) to commit to their chosen sport once the 10 weeks are up by March 2011, when the funding ceases.

Activities such as Cheerleading, trampolining, and, more recently, Indoboarding have been delivered using this funding in the North Dorset area.