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Us Girls - The Story So Far… Celebrating our two year anniversary

Us Girls - The Story So Far… Celebrating our two year anniversary. March 2011 – The beginning. Delivered by The Active Women Consortium.

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Us Girls - The Story So Far… Celebrating our two year anniversary

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  1. Us Girls - The Story So Far… Celebrating our two year anniversary

  2. March 2011 – The beginning • Delivered by The Active Women Consortium. • Aims to get 29,700 young women living in disadvantaged communities more active, more often by boosting opportunities for them to play sport within their local communities. • Activities are tailored around the needs of women living in the most disadvantaged areas in England. “The advantage is there is a support system in place and they have a number of projects all across the country doing similar areas of work, hopefully we can share ideas & see what works in other places… plus they do training courses which assist in your understanding”

  3. August 2011 – Sign up begins for our Us Girls Champions

  4. October 2011 – Us Girls President Appointed

  5. November 2011 – 1st Us Girls Conference: Getting Girls Active • The Journey so Far. Engage, Share, Learn – it’s your time! • 2 days • 70 delegates • Hosted by former Olympic badminton player, Donna Kellogg MBE.

  6. December 2011 – Partnership with Women’s Sport Net • Launch of Women’s Sporting Calendar – to coincide with all male SPOTY shortlist • Record Us Girls website hits • 2 Us Girls Parliamentary Ambassadors appointed • Partner steering group takes place

  7. March 2012 – IWD & Us Girls Games • 1000 young women, 20 towns/cities • Range of Olympic Sports tried as part of a 12-day festival of events. • “This should run every month. I know lots of ladies who will be interested once I tell them how fun it was!" Us Girls Games Participant.

  8. April 2012 – The halfway stage!

  9. July 2012 – Us Girls & The Olympic Games #GirlsTimeToMakeItHappen - a campaign to develop and grow the number of organisations delivering good sport for young women and to connect Us Girls Champions to local projects. Network doubles from original 50 funded organisations to 100 signed up at part of Us Girls.

  10. September 2012 – Creation of 14 How To Guides & Workshop “One of the best coach ed days ive been on” England Handball Staff

  11. October 2012 – Launch of Us Girls Rocks • 6 regional festivals • Girls only! • 650 participants • 30 volunteers • NGB involvement • New projects • Wide range of sports • Hair, beauty & lifestyle activities • Special guests • Girls to transitioning to clubs. “It gave me the opportunity to do sports I wouldn’t normally do”

  12. November 2012 – Launch of Us Girls Alive Programme • DoH funded • October 2012 – 2015 • 15 areas – 2 phases • 30 monthly wellbeing/lifestyle clubs – ‘interactive magazine’ • 4 Us Girls Motivators per club • Link with health commissioners & deliverers.

  13. February 2013 – Gear4Girls launched Donations from England Handball, The FA, Kits4Causes, Rounders England. “My Gear 4 Girls campaign is about providing young women and girls in areas of need with equipment and clothing, so they can access sport, enjoy it and get active” Nicola Adams

  14. April 2013 – Final stats! • 34,481participants • 875 new coaches • 694 volunteers • 245 peer champions • 1232 new qualifications • 379 events/festivals.

  15. April 2013 – Us Girls Tools & Resources • A series of 14 practical ‘How To’ Guides • An interactive 3 hour Workshop - Engaging Women and Girls in Sport & Physical Activity • Body Image Information pack and consultation ‘quizzes’ to understand individual participant motivations • Marketing Toolkit • Case studies & good practice examples • Gender specific research and insight • Us Girls merchandise for use as rewards and incentives • Us Girls in Colleges Toolkit • www.usgirls.org.uk @UsGirlsTweet F/UsGirlsGetActive

  16. April 2013 – What’s next • Assimilate Us Girls into the mainstream delivery of StreetGames core business • Ensure Doorstep Sport Clubs fully consider the needs of young women in the planning of the programme • Continuing the roll out of the Engaging Women and Girls Training Academy workshop • Support FE colleges in disadvantaged areas to establish girls-only programmes • Continue to support NGBs to get more young women from disadvantaged areas into their sport • Continue to roll out the Us Girls Rocks festival programme • Work with Women's Sports Trust & Womens Sport Net to share insight, provide leadership and help raise the profile of women’s sport.

  17. Finally!

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