Cash for Southampton street sports

The Street Sport programme, run by the city council’s sports development unit, will offer activities to 11-16-year-olds in places they are already gathering.

Activities will be decided upon with the young people but will include BMX-ing, skateboarding, street football, street hockey and table tennis.

The project, to begin in October, will involve two sessions a week lasting up to an hour and a half.

Jayne Ludden, sport and recreation manager at Southampton City Council, said: “We are excited by the prospect of delivering regular street sport sessions to young people across the city.”

Local residents decided they wanted to fund the project out of a pot of £50,000 from the health trust to invest in health and wellbeing.