ANGUSalive Annual Report 2019-2020

Encourage participation for all

Active Girls Day

Sport & Leisure

In October 2019 ANGUSalive, Forfar Community Sport Hubs and Angus Active Schools worked in partnership to celebrate Active Girls Day at Forfar Community Campus. Clubs from Forfar Community Sport Hub included Strathmore Rugby Football Club and Forfar Golf Club who helped deliver a range of activities throughout the day.

Active Girls day is a national initiative to celebrate the amazing work that goes into girls’ sport, the progress around girls’ participation, and the incredible role models making it happen. The event provides pathways for the girls to attend club sessions along with creating and enhancing school/club links through the Active Schools team. We had over 50 girls attend from all over Angus and involved Forfar Badminton Club, Forfar Golf Club, Netball, Tayside Musketeers, Forfar Farmington Football Club, Strathmore Cricket Club and Strathmore Rugby Club.

We hope this opportunity will inspire the girls to be healthy, active and creative throughout their lives by continuing to participate in sport and physical activity regularly.

ANGUSalive Chief Executive Kirsty Hunter

This event provided an opportunity for partners to work specifically with girls and young women, a group where levels of sporting activity is low. Through this event the pupils were able to gain more confidence in specific sports and pathways to continue participation in the sports which were showcased.

Cricket was really good. It was the first time I’d played it.

Active Girls Day participant

Scott Nicoll, Community Sports Hub Coordinator, said, “The Active Girls day is a national initiative and it was really positive to see that we had reached out to 54 girls throughout Angus to take part in the activities we had on offer. The girls had the opportunity to take part in all of the sports and hopefully follow up by returning to a club session. It was such a fantastic day for all partners to be involved in and put on a great event for all the keen active girls.”

Cllr Derek Wann said: “This is a really important initiative to support the promotion of female participation in sport and to address inequalities in participation opportunities for girls and young women.”

I had a brilliant day. I got to try out lots of different sports.

Active Girls Day participant

Did you know?

95% of the coaches involved in Active Girls Day were female.