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Grab your FREE racket with Birmingham’s latest activity initiative

Inspired by Wimbledon? A City Council backed initiative plans to hand out thousands of tennis rackets in a bid to get Brummies active.

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Birmingham has a head start as Sport England targets inactivity

As Sport England unveil plans to tackle inactivity, Birmingham is leading the way thanks to a range of FREE initiatives aimed at getting Brummies off the couch.

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Funding boost for new changing rooms at Cofton Park

Birmingham City Council has secured a share of £16.5 million National Lottery funding from Sport England to help build new changing rooms at one of the city’s parks. The council has been awarded £78,169 grant funding towards a £300,000 scheme to build the new facilities at Cofton Park, where there are football pitches. Work is […]

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Major events funding and new running programme plans approved

Cabinet has today (20 April) given the green light to more than £4 million of funding to support a programme of high profile sporting and cultural events in Birmingham over the next three years. The £4.65 million expenditure consists of £3.096 million from Birmingham City Council’s major events budget for 2015-18, plus a £1.55 million […]

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Birmingham women prove This Girl Can

Hundreds of Birmingham women braved the rain on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day with a city-wide celebration of exercise and physical activity. This Brum Girl Can day was the city’s response to Sport England’s highly successful This Girl Can campaign, which aims to tackle the fear of judgement that prevents many women taking part […]

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Plans for a city-wide celebration of active women on International Women’s Day (March 8 ) are rapidly taking shape. The programme of events is part of Sport England’s exciting ‘This Girl Can’ campaign, which aims to promote physical activity by helping women of all ages overcome barriers to participation. For a full programme of events […]

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Huge response to This Girl Can appeal

Plans for a city-wide celebration of active women next month are rapidly taking shape. And organisers of This Birmingham Girl Can, including Sport Birmingham, are delighted with the response as women from across the city have stepped up to the mark. The programme of events on International Women’s Day (March 8 ) is part of […]

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Funding now available to show This Girl Can

Birmingham community organisations are being offered funding to help stage a city-wide celebration of active women later this year. Grants of up to £500 are available for organisations or groups to host activities on, and around International Women’s day (Sunday 8 March). So if you would like to organise a run, a bike ride, Zumba […]

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This (Birmingham) Girl Can

[field name=iframe] Birmingham is planning a city-wide celebration of active women in March as part of Sport England’s exciting ‘This Girl Can’ campaign. This Girl Can is a new campaign aiming to promote physical activity by helping women of all ages overcome barriers to participation. It’s a celebration of active women up and down the […]

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