Free summer holiday sport sessions offered in city

Free sport sessions are set to be offered in Sheffield to "get families active" during the school summer holidays.

More than a dozen parks and green spaces in the city will host the two-hour sessions, including Firth Park, Greenhill Park and Gleadless Common.

The afternoon and evening slots will offer football, rounders and other multi-sport sessions, with family-friendly games for all ages and abilities also promised.

Everyone Active - which has a contract with Sheffield City Council to run leisure, health and wellbeing facilities - will lead the events, with free food and drink also on offer.

Lorenzo Clark, from Everyone Active, said: "The scheme provides activities for those who might not necessarily be able to go away on holiday because of affordability.

"We put expert coaches in place so people can try new things as well as activities they will have done before."

Everyone Active is contracted to run facilities including the English Institute of Sport, Ponds Forge International Sports Centre and Ice Sheffield.

The summer activity sessions run from 20 July to 28 August, with booking in advance advised., external

Councillor Brian Holmshaw, chair of the communities, parks and leisure policy committee at the council, said: "The school summer holidays are always an exciting time for children right across Sheffield, but it can give parents a challenge of how to entertain their kids during the daytime.

"These activities are perfect for getting families out and about across the city, getting them active and having lots of fun, hopefully in the sun."