Sport In Your Area

Sport in your Area

Sport in your area is strategically coordinated by networks called Sport and Physical Activity Alliances (SPAAs).

What are SPAAs?

Lancashire has 14 SPAA's one within each local authority boundary. These SPAA's provide a voice for local organisations to improve and add value to existing sport and physical activity provision. The SPAAs are made up of a variety of organisations such as local sport and leisure departments, health practioners, schools and colleges, youth and community services, sport governing bodies and other local agencies that have an interest in developing and providing sport and physical activity for local people. SPAAs are not a new concept. Where they already exist, they have evolved from the recognition that organisations at a local level with similar objectives can achieve more if they work together. The overall aims for many of the SPAAs are to :-  

• increasing participation and
• widening access to sport and physical activity for all members of the community.

Over the past 18 months the SPAAs through extensive consultation with local partners have developed local sport and physical activity strategy within which a number of new sport and physical activity projects have been designed to help contribute to the SPAAs aims. These projects have received investment from a variety of partners including Sport England, Health, Governing Bodies of Sport and Local Authority sport and leisure departments amongst others.    

For more details of the projects that will be delivered in your area and to get a copy of your SPAAs strategy click on your local authority are below.

• Blackburn with Darwen
• Blackpool
• Burnley
• Chorley
• Fylde
• Hyndburn
• Lancaster
• Pendle
• Preston
• Ribble Valley
• Rossendale
• South Ribble
• West Lancashire
• Wyre

If you require any more general information on SPAA's please contact our Sporting Infrastructure team.