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Good Idea: TV fitness guru gives young people a sporting chance

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Fitness experts train struggling young people to gain instructing skills and run their own classes with primary school children that combines sport with learning.

Provider: Body Rocks

Name: Creativity in Sport

Young people taking part in Creativity in Sport's positive life skills and fitness programme would be hard-pressed to find better mentors.

Television fitness presenter Lizzie Webb (pictured far right) and Team GB Olympic silver-medalist rower Debbie Flood launched the community interest company in 2008, in order to engage children based at a pupil referral unit in Reading.

The duo both have experience of working with troubled young people - Webb started her career as a teacher working in a "difficult" boys school and once volunteered as a dance teacher in a boys' juvenile prison, while Flood is a prison officer - and believing that early intervention is key to preventing problems later in life, they decided to launch Creativity in Sport.

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