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The familiar crowd of cyclists, footballers, rollerbladers and keep fit fanatics on Hove Lawns’ iconic seafront will have a genteel addition of golf this Bank Holiday Sunday.

A whole selection of golfing tasters will be taking over Hove Lawns for the duration of Bank Holiday Sunday featuring nets for big hitting, putting greens and three tri golf holes featuring artificial trees, bunkers – even a lake!

Pro golfers will be there to provide top tips to anyone trying out the sport for the first time.

Sussex Golf Week launch event, Sunday 26 May, 10.30am-4.30pm. Hove Lawns, Hove Seafront. Free admission

http://www.sussexgolfpartnership.org/

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Calling all Sport Makers – Active Sussex has a pair of tickets up for grabs for the AEGON International Tennis Tournament in Eastbourne this June.

In partnership with the Lawn Tennis Association, Active Sussex is offering a lucky Sport Maker the opportunity to win two tickets to the AEGON International Tennis Tournament, which takes place 15-22 June.

To win the tickets we are asking you to complete 10 Sport Maker hours specifically through tennis. So dust off those racquets, don some shorts, if you dare, and enjoy the summer season of tennis!

You could head to your local park with your mates and have a game, or help out at your local tennis club. This is your opportunity to make tennis happen at any level, and you could be in with a chance of winning this fantastic prize.

How to Enter

Email Gina Rogers at grogers@activesussex.org outlining what you have done to achieve your 10 Sport Maker hours through tennis. It may be that you have already completed a few hours and you need to top up the rest. This is absolutely fine – as long as you complete the full 10 hours you will be eligible to win. Please also include your contact details: full name, email address, postal address (suitable for receiving tickets) and a contact telephone number.

Pictures of you playing tennis are welcome and encouraged! Share your photos on our Sussex Sport Makers Facebook page

For further information on clubs and courts in your area please visit www.lta.org.uk/allplaytennis/ type in your postcode and away you go.

The closing date for the competition is Friday 31 May. You will need to be available on Monday 17 June to attend the tournament.

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Wakeboarder Lily Mcbride, who coached last year's Sportivate Wakeboarding for Girls at Hove Lagoon Watersports, funded by Active Sussex

Sport England has allocated £24m worth of funding to extend its Sportivate programme. 

The scheme, which will run until 2017, has been designed to help 14- to 25-year-olds to get involved in sports by offering discounted and free sessions in sports ranging from judo and tennis to wakeboarding. It is delivered by the network of 49 county sports partnerships, working with local clubs and providers.

It aims to give young people - who currently aren't playing sport in their own time - the chance to find a sport they like. The young people are then helped to find a club or venue where they can keep taking part. Research shows that most of the young people are sticking with sport three months after they've completed the Sportivate course.

New figures published today show almost 190,000 teenagers and young adults have so far benefitted from free or discounted six- to eight-week sport courses through Sportivate. Of these, 156,547 have successfully completed their coaching course, missing no more than one session.

Sport England chief executive Jennie Price, said: "Sportivate's success is built on listening to what young people want from sport and then giving them great opportunities to get involved.

"With dozens of traditional and non-traditional sports on offer, lots of young people are getting active and discovering a sport they really enjoy and want to keep playing."

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England Basketball's Miguel Tello chooses his top five places to play ball in Sussex.

1. Brighton Beach Seafront Court

Free to use and open year round, the court on Brighton's iconic seafront is the unofficial hub for street ball in Sussex.

Miguel says: " A fantastic location, with load of passers by, means this is busy all year round with a readymade audience to watch your skills."

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The Senior Girls team won the English Schools team event, and the Foyston trophy

The Sussex schools squad had a fantastic day of running on an extremely muddy course at the English Schools Athletic Association cross country championships, Catton Hall, Derbyshire, on 16 March, with three of its six teams winning trophies.

First up for honours were the junior boys, who won the Lockhurst Lane trophy, awarded to the first team to get all eight of its runners home. Archie Davies (Patcham), leading the field for Sussex, came 12th overall.

The Senior girls won the team event and the Foyston trophy with Grace Baker (Rye) leading home her Sussex team mates in a brilliant fifth position, with Nicole Taylor (Beacon) 10th, Emma Dixon (BHASVIC) 24th, Maddy Smith (St. Bedes) 50th, Mylene Schuwey (Hailsham) 92nd and Megan Bradford (Varndean) 103rd making up the six scorers.

The Intermediate boys were the revelation of the day with Stephen Ferroni (BACA) coming in 10th to be the first Sussex scorer. The team won the Yorkshire cup, 67 points ahead of nearest rivals Kent. With Billy White (Patcham) in 13th, Josh Woods (Blatch Mill) in 17th, Jake Alger (Seaford Head) in 19th, Harry Leleu (Seaford Coll) in 32nd and Jack Witt (Brighton coll) in 38th, all six scorers finished in the top 40.

The Intermediate Boys team secured the Yorkshire Cup

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Schools from the nine School Games areas did their regions proud at the Sussex School Games Winter Finals, which took place on 6 March at Lancing College.

The Winter Finals is an annual seasonal competition focusing on team sport. It features just four disciplines – football, hockey, netball and rugby sevens – with the best teams drawn from Sussex schools competing for regional and individual honours. Over 400 children took part on the day.

Active Sussex and the Sainsbury's School Games Local Organising Committee are delighted to announce the final results for first placed and runners-up and the overall standings for each region are as follows:

Year 5/6 Girls Football

Winner: West Green Primary School (Crawley) – pictured
Runner-up: Sacred Heart Catholic Primary (Hastings & Rother)

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Project 500 is a new campaign to address the imbalance in the numbers of male to female coaches. Devised by the seven South East county sports partnerships, the project aims to recruit 500 women to coaching over the next two years.  

Launched on 8 March to mark International Women's Day, Project 500 is a pilot scheme, with plans to roll it out nationally after an initial trial period. Key to

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