The YSF Podcast
The YSF Podcast
Yorkshire Sport Foundation
The podcast from Yorkshire Sport Foundation, the Active Partnership for South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. Sharing stories and good practice from the sport and physical activity sector.
YSF Podcast - CEO Nigel Harrison - Extras: Team questions
YSF CEO Nigel Harrison talks about his journey leading Yorkshire Sport Foundation over the past 24 years.
Sep 2, 2025
14 min
YSF Podcast - CEO Nigel Harrison Part 2: Changes in the system
YSF CEO Nigel Harrison talks about his journey leading Yorkshire Sport Foundation over the past 24 years.
Aug 18, 2025
27 min
YSF Podcast - CEO Nigel Harrison Part 1: Leading and learning
YSF CEO Nigel Harrison talks about his journey leading Yorkshire Sport Foundation over the past 24 years.
Aug 11, 2025
27 min
Place Partnerships: Hints and tips for your process learning report
In partnership with the National Evaluation and Learning Partnership, we're supporting Sport England's Place Parnterships to understand how to put together a process learning report. Featuring Dr. Jen Hall (Born in Bradford - JU:MP Local Delivery Pilot), Sarah Wood and Ed Montague (Yorkshire Sport Foundation - Move More Wakefield Place Partnership).
Jun 2, 2025
11 min
Place Partnerships: How to put together a process learning report
In partnership with the National Evaluation and Learning Partnership, we're supporting Sport England's Place Parnterships to understand how to put together a process learning report. Featuring Dr. Jen Hall (Born in Bradford - JU:MP Local Delivery Pilot), Sarah Wood and Ed Montague (Yorkshire Sport Foundation - Move More Wakefield Place Partnership).
Jun 2, 2025
25 min
Place Partnerships: What is process learning?
In partnership with the National Evaluation and Learning Partnership, we're supporting Sport England's Place Parnterships to understand how to put together a process learning report. Featuring Dr. Jen Hall (Born in Bradford - JU:MP Local Delivery Pilot), Sarah Wood and Ed Montague (Yorkshire Sport Foundation - Move More Wakefield Place Partnership). Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/23/bradford-jump-proje...
Jun 2, 2025
22 min
Primary PE: Sunnyfields Primary School
Sunnyfields Primary School in Doncaster has been accredited as a Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity by Yorkshire Sport Foundation. The accreditation has been awarded in the category of PE Lessons – one of seven categories linked to the Creating Active Schools framework that was devised in Yorkshire in 2019. This episode discusses their journey to the accreditation and what they have learned along the way.
May 7, 2025
40 min
Primary PE: Rawmarsh Thorogate School
A Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity and School Sport, we chat to Jon Bedford from Rawmarsh Thorogate School about their success linked to active travel.
Dec 16, 2024
38 min
What we learnt from our approach to the Together Fund
Charlotte Ellis, Ed Montague (both Yorkshire Sport Founation) chat with Kris Mackay (Founder of Growing Circles) about the YSF approach to engaging with community groups as part of the Together Fund. The Together Fund was a continuation of the Tackling Inequalities Fund that was set up in April 2020 as part of Sport England's support package to help the sport and physical activity sector through the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. It saw another £20 million of National Lottery funding committe...
Jan 25, 2024
34 min
Navigating Local Systems: A mini-revolution in Wakefield
The Navigating Local Systems (NLS) work began in the autumn of 2019 and sits alongside the work of Sport England's Local Delivery Pilots. This episode focuses on that work in Wakefield. NLS helps people and organisations to better understand and connect local systems through developing their knowledge, skills and capacity to drive the change needed to increase physical activity within local communities where the need is the greatest. We go through the approach taken so far: · &...
Jul 31, 2023
49 min
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