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5 Hour Offer

The '5 Hour Offer' was announced by the Prime Minister in July 2007 with a commitment of an additional £100 million (over three years 2008-11) into the National School Sport or Physical Education and Sport Strategy for Young People (SSYP) Strategy in order to give every child and young person (aged 5-19) the chance to do 5 hours of sport a week.

This new funding will be drawn down from both the Department for Children, Schools & Families (DCSF) and the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and will be split into 5 strands, namely;

• the addition of Further Education sports co-ordinators linked to School Sport Partnerships (DCSF lead/funded)
• the completion of the roll out of competition managers linked again to SSP's (DCSF led/funded)
• top up grants to SSP's to pay for coaching (DCSF led/funded)
• multi-sport clubs for children with special needs linked to SSP's (DCSF led/funded)
• funding to support extended club activity designed to attract a different type of young person (DCMS lead/funded)

The Northumberland Sport Partnership has been asked to lead the development of plans to deliver against the extending activity strand, now termed Sport Unlimited.    

For further details about each of the strands of funding listed above, please visit the Sport England & Youth Sport Trust websites.