Lincolnshire School Games is taking place on 14th July 2011 at the Mere's Leisure Centre in Grantham. This year is a pilot event working with 11 sports, providing a competitive opportunity for nearly 1,000 participants and over 100 volunteers.

This event will help shape the landscape for this initiative in the future. Below is information regarding the national overview;

Funding from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the National Lottery has been allocated to establish a nationwide School Games tournament to boost the numbers of young people taking part in competitive sport across the country. The School Games, starting in September 2011, is a celebration of competitive sport that will involve all young people, of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.

There really is no better time to inspire as many young people as possible to take part in competitive sport than in the run up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. By taking part, schools will have the chance build on existing initiatives in school sport and competition by creating a year-round sporting calendar that has four different levels:

Level 1: Intra- school competition, culminating in a School Games day
Level 2: Regular inter-school competition between schools at a local level
Level 3: Annual county/area culmination of inter-school competitions – School Games Festivals
Level 4: National multi-sport event

To support the successful running of the School Games, further funding support from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department of Health was announced in early 2011 to pay for 450 new roles to work three days a week as School Games Organisers. The role of the new School Games Organisers will be to establish the School Games in their areas, supporting as many schools as possible to set up intra- and inter-school competitions and link schools to clubs.

The Youth Sport Trust is pleased to be delivering the pilots at Levels 1-3 and is supporting the development of the Local Organising Committees that will manage and deliver the pilot Level 3 (county/area) School Games Festivals in the summer of 2011.

We are continuing our work to support National Governing Bodies of Sport and are helping them to develop formats and pathways suited to the new structure of School Sport Competition. The nine pilot areas are:

Black Country

Central London

Cornwall

Greater Manchester

Hertfordshire

Kent

Lincolnshire

North Yorkshire

Tyne and Wear