http://www.wsff.org.uk Latest news from the Womens Sports Foundation en-uk Fri, 05 Feb 10 13:46:28 GMT Copyright: (C) WSF Less than 20% of women are doing enough exercise to benefit their health and girls leave school half as active as boys. To help sport and fitness deliverers grow these figures the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation is hosting two events focusing on how to shape and promote physical activity for women and girls http://www.wsff.org.uk/documents/Fit_for_Women.doc The Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) is concerned by the fall in women's participation in sport. According to the figures released by Sport England today, regular participation amongst women has fallen by 61,000 to 2.727 million, while the number of men taking part has increased http://www.wsff.org.uk/documents/Women_dropoff.doc All of WSFF's new sport insight factsheets are now available to view. The individual analysis of how women participate, and are involved in, over 30 of the Sport England funded sports (where data is available) can be viewed here http://www.wsff.org.uk/informed/fact_files.php Alexia Walker has become the youngest ever candidate to gain the ECB Level Four Coaching Certificate - the highest cricket coaching qualification in this country. The 27-year-old, who is Sussex women's captain and led England women's academy last year, spent the last two and a half years working towards the Level Four qualification and is only the third woman ever to complete the course http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/womens/domestic-womens-cricket/walker,308887,EN.html Dame Kelly Holmes has taken the title of Britain's favourite sportswoman followed by Paula Radcliffe and fellow Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell. That's according to *research by the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) to mark its 25th birthday and the launch of its new report which tracks a quarter century of records from women's sport and the hurdles which still need to be tackled http://www.wsff.org.uk/documents/WSFF301109SurveyyReleaseHF.doc David Davies has missed an opportunity to raise the profile of women's sport in his review of free-to-air sports according to the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF http://www.wsff.org.uk/documents/WSFF_Statement_Free-to-air_Events_Review_+HF.doc Sport England is today announcing a and pound;10 million National Lottery funding round to encourage 'Active Women' - in a drive to get more women from disadvantaged communities, and women caring for children, playing sport http://www.wsff.org.uk/documents/091109_Active_Women_launch_FINAL.doc This week WSFF launches its evaluation of Sweat in the City. The new research shows that exercise can play a powerful part in helping young women tackle negative body image and low confidence http://www.wsff.org.uk/documents/SitCresults.doc The Five College Women's Studies Reseach Center, based in Massachusetts USA, have invited individuals with research ideas to apply for a research associate position. The application deadline is Feb 8th 2010. For more information click here http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/fcwsrc/about/ The Commission on the Future of Women's Sport (in partnership with Opportunity Now) has launched its first report. The report focuses on the need to increase the numbers of women in leadership positions in sport. Leadership matters because the way in which organisations are governed and led has a direct impact on their fundamental business: performance. Lack of diversity at a senior level of administration is curtailing organisational performance and preventing sport from capitalising on one of its most significant opportunities: to successfully engage the female half of the population and realise the potential of women's sport. It is available here http://www.wsff.org.uk../documents/Trophy_Women_accessible_version.pdf