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Sport and young people

Research and project evaluation provides useful evidence on what motivates and deters young people’s sporting participation.

Sport has to compete with the many leisure and lifestyle choices available to young people.

A 2012 Sport England review of research in this field found sport needs to adapt to key factors affecting young people’s take-up:

  • a move towards ‘lifestyle’ related sports which lack the regulation of traditional sport
  • the way social media is breakin...

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