Celebrating the Olympic Torch Relay one year on, one legacy programme will be honouring people who have helped bring Olympic spirit to life in their local communities. >>

These two new evidence briefings from the BHFNC, written in partnership with the County Sports Partnership Network, are designed for anyone working in the field of physical activity and health. They can be used by strategic organisations and community groups alike. Both documents provide relevant and evidenced based statistics to better equip physical activity and health professionals to make the case for using physical activity to improve quality of life across the population. >>

Seven County Sports Partnerships from the South East working with Sport Coach UK have launched Project 500 a new campaign to address the imbalance in the number of male and females coaches, creating a more diverse workforce to drive the growth of female participation in sport. >>

The County Sports Partnership Network have today welcomed the Government announcement that additional investment will be made into primary school sport. >>

The CSPN Chief Executive Lee Mason is amongst the first 8 people to be awarded Chartered Status from the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA). >>

The County Sport Partnership Network 2012 Annual Review is now available. The report highlights the excellence progress against that has been made against targets set as a network of CSPs delivering for local communities, and as the umbrella network supporting CSP members and working with CSPN’s many stakeholders. >>

Today the English Federation of Disability Sport are pleased to unveil the Inclusion Club Hub. The new online toolkit will support sports clubs to improve provision and opportunities, so that more disabled people can be active at a local level. >>

Thousands of people in Dorset are still enjoying the sporting benefits of the Olympic and Paralympic Games after rekindling or discovering a passion for sport at the sports arena on Weymouth beach during the Games. >>

People suffering from post Olympic and Paralympic blues are getting their spirits lifted thanks to one legacy programme that vows to keep the spirit of the Games alive. >>

The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) has signed a partnership agreement with the County Sports Partnership Network, the first of its kind for British Sport. The network, who are responsible for the strategic local delivery of national sports policy and community sports campaigns have a network of 49 offices across England comprising of over 5,000 staff. >>

Are you Insired by the Games and the amazing performances of Team GB? Do you want to get active, take up a new sport or help others into sport? Your local County Sports Partnership can help... >>

As the worlds finest athletes gather in London, County Sports Partnerships are working with Sports Coach UK to look after future generations of talented athletes by providing personal development opportunities for coaches through Talent Breakfast Clubs. Following a successful pilot in 2011-12 CSPs through the Coaching System Support Network (CSSN) are working in partnership with Sports Coach UK to organise and deliver 9 more topics in each of the 9 regions across the country. >>

CSPN is delighted to report the 1,000th Community Games has registered for this year. In just 6 months CSPs have helped achieve this fantastic target working across the country with their communities to organise local events to help celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. >>

CSPN was delighted to hear for the first time more than 15 million people in England are playing sport once a week, every week. The latest figures from Sport England’s Active People Survey show that 15.28 million people aged 16 and over are playing sport at least once a week, 500,000 more than six months ago and 1.3 million more than in 2005/6 when London won the Olympic bid. >>

The CSPN is pleased to be supporting the forthcoming European Sports Development Network (ESDN) Symposium which is taking place at Sheffield Hallam University on Wednesday 5th September. >>

A busy working mother who is getting women in her neighbourhood into running and a project that gave more than 100 young people in Buckinghamshire the opportunity to getting involved in the iconic Olympic sport of rowing, have been honoured at an awards ceremony at the House of Commons. >>

New figures reveal more than 80,000 youngsters have taken up sport thanks to the Sportivate Olympic legacy initiative led by the County Sports Partnerships. Three projects Twlight Football, Rowing in 2012 and CanDance are set to receive awards from Sport and Olympics Minister for their inspiring work with young people. >>

The latest Funding Opportunities for Coaching Guide is available on the sports coach UK website. Produced by sports coach UK in partnership with the CSSN and SkillsActive, the Guide provides information on funding available in England to support coaching. Please note that applications for the Mayor's Legacy Skills Fund in London closed on 31 March 2012. References to this source of funding in the latest Funding Opportunities for Coaching Guide are, therefore, not applicable. >>

Millions of people will be able to come together to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in their local communities at one of over 2000 games being held across the UK, thanks to a £2 million Big Society fund, Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd said today. >>

County Sport Partnerships across the country have helped inspire 33,000 young people to do sport in their own time in the first six months of Sport England's Sportivate Olympic and Paralympic legacy initiative. >>