July

Derby City Rugby League Football Club is among the local groups to receive a grant from the Lottery’s Awards for All programme.

Optimist Class sailor, Ben Brown (13) from Staunton Harold SC was presented with five trophies at the prize giving for the National School Sailing Association, National Youth Regatta 2008 after a week of racing sailing at Carsington Water.

More gifted athletes from Derby, South Derbyshire and Amber Valley have been presented with bursaries from the Derbyshire Talented Athlete Fund, to help them further their sporting careers.

An unprecedented five table tennis players from Chesterfield were part of the England team to play for their country in the Cadet and Junior European Championships in Italy.

A football development worker from Derbyshire has spent a week in Israel working on a sport-based co-existence programme for Jewish and Arab children, which teaches them to deal with conflict.

South Derbyshire District Council's Get Active in the Forest Scheme has made it to the finals to win a National Lottery Award.

Derbyshire has sent a good luck message to the county’s Olympic and Paralympic stars, who will soon be jetting out to compete in Beijing.

The 2008 National School Sailing Association National Youth Regatta is underway at Carsington Water in Derbyshire.

Derbyshire footballer Leon Taylor is preparing to travel to Beijing this summer to represent Britain in the Paralympic Games.

Some of Derbyshire’s hardest-working young volunteers have been rewarded for their contribution to sport.

Niki Birrell, one of the sailors selected for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games and the Gold medal winner in the SKUD 18 class at the recent Qingdao Paralympic Test Event, will be visiting the National School Sailing Association National Youth Regatta at Carsington Water on Friday, July 25. 

The Derbyshire Sport Annual Report 2007/08 has been published, and is now available to view on this website.

Work to encourage more disabled people in Derbyshire to take part in sport and physical activity, by developing new opportunities and raising awareness of existing ones, has been outlined with the launch of a new county plan.

Derbyshire school pupils got the chance to take part in a variety of sporting activities, from archery and climbing to spinning and cheerleading, during National School Sport Week.

As part of National School Sport Week and to celebrate the end of the first phase of the Loud and Proud Cheerleading Project, the High Peak Cheerleading Development Group hosted High Peak Cheer Fest 2008.

A new report showcasing the achievements of the Safer Communities through Sport programme since January 2007 has been published.

Liz Godfree of Derwent Valley Orienteers has won a Gold Medal in the W60 Class Sprint Race at the World Masters Orienteering Championships in Portugal.

More than 130 Mini Leaders from schools across Derby took part in a special training day at Moorways Sports Complex, to help them organise intra-school competitions.

Derbyshire schools are being invited to join the celebrations to officially mark the Paralympic Games handover from Beijing to London.

More than 500 people enjoyed the first ever National Forest Walking Festival, which took place from May 17 to 26.

Two stars from different parts of the sailing world will be visiting the National Schools Sailing Association National Youth Regatta being held at Carsington Water in Derbyshire between July 20 and 25.

Around 150 pupils from schools across Derbyshire gathered to compete for medals at the East Midlands Airport Derbyshire Schools’ Miniathlon Championships.

A further 16 sporting stars have been selected to receive a bursary from the Derbyshire Talented Athlete Fund.

Top racing coach Dave Woodhead, from the Royal Yachting Association, is to attend this year's National Schools Sailing Association National Youth Regatta at Carsington Water in Derbyshire.

Pupils from Granville Sedcondary School in Swadlincote were victorious when they took part in a virtual transatlantic Gamercize competition, as part of Derbyshire’s celebrations of National School Sport Week.