durham
university
Outreach Programme
“We work very closely as five north-east universities and always
have done. We had in the early 2000s the Sports Universities
North-East England project which was the model that others
aspired to. Having made that work as a group it became easier
to carry the projects on individually and we retain very good
relationships.
Our outreach programme works with schools, disability groups,
hard to reach groups, alcohol referrals, drug rehab clients and
prisons and has generally been very well received and has had
a very positive impact. What you learn with that kind of work
is that a once a week session, whilst helpful, is a million miles
off solving problems so we’ve gradually tried to do more in lots
of different ways to make Durham University as accessible as
possible for people looking to take part in supervised sport.”
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Sport in Action
“We also run the Sport in Action project in Zambia with
Northumbria, Sterling, St Andrew’s, Bath, Cardiff Met and
Loughborough universities taking part. The project is celebrating
its 10th anniversary this year and involves sending students out
for up to six months to work on community sports programmes.
There are a number of projects that we work on out there with
approximately one hundred students going out every year.”
Facilities
“The facilities that we have here are very good. We’re ranked
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