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.
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