Merseyside Sports Cheshire and Warrington Sport Greater Manchester Sport Lancashire Sport Cumbria Sport

Sports Partnerships in the North West Region

Click your county on the map on the left or look in the table below for details of Sports in your area.

Sports Partnership are the strategic County Sports Partnerships.  Working with our partners we aim to actively contribute to increasing participation and widening access to sport and physical activity.

Sports Partnership are made up of organisations with a vested interest in achieving similar aims and includes local government, sport governing bodies, police, education, health sector, volunteering and media partners.

Working together, we want to change lives with sport and give more people the opportunity to experience some of the many benefits of being active.

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Cheshire and Warrington Sports Partnership


The Cheshire & Warrington Sports Partnership embraces a wide range of organisations providing a range of services and, with the appropriate structures in place, will continue working to create a single infrastructure for sport and physical activity which will be of added value and benefit to the residents of Cheshire and Warrington.

 Cheshire & Warrington Sports Partnership Vision

"To improve the health and well being of the residents of Cheshire & Warrington by encouraging more people to take up and continue sport and physical activity on a regular basis." 

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Cumbria Sports Partnership


Cumbria Sport was originally set up as an Active Sports Partnership but has continuously worked in a wider context particularly with Education and schools due to its hosting arrangements with Cumbria County Council.

Based in the Prevention and Partnerships Unit of Cumbria County Councils Childrens Services Directorate, Cumbria Sport Partnership started operating as a Sport England designated County Sports Partnership from September 1999.

Cumbria Sport Partnership is one of 49 sub regional sport partnerships operating across England. Funded through Sport England, partners include Cumbria County Council, Carlisle City Council, Eden District Council, Allerdale Borough Council, Barrow Borough Council, South Lakeland District Council, Copeland Borough Council, English Federation of Disability Sport, Governing Bodies of Sport and the health authority.

All our partners are committed to working together to increase the number of people participating in Sport and Physical Activity across Cumbria.

County Sports Partnerships are an integral part of the Governments drive to develop a 'single sports system' across England, and are the key bridge between local and regional networks.

Cumbria Sport facilitates a sporting infrastructure that works with all partners to support:

  • The creation of a single system for sport in Cumbria
  • Long term athlete development
  • The development of school sport clubs and PE in schools
  • The development of the Youth Games and the Cumbria Sports Awards and other competition programmes
  • Coaching, club and workforce development
  • Volunteer recruitment
  • Facility planning and development
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Greater Manchester Sports Partnership


The Greater Manchester Sports Partnership has developed as a network of organisations with a shared interest in increasing the numbers of young people in Greater Manchester who benefit from being involved in sport and physical activity.

Our vision is to create a 'single system' for sport in Greater Manchester so that everyone has opportunities and choices to participate in sport and physical activity according to their interests and abilities.

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Lancashire Sports Partnership


The Lancashire Sports Partnership is the strategic County Sports Partnership (CSP) for Lancashire. Working with our partners we aim to actively contribute to increasing participation and widening access to sport and physical activity.

Our partnership is made up of organisations with a vested interest in achieving similar aims and includes local government, sport governing bodies, police, education, health sector, volunteering and media partners.

Working together, we want to change lives with sport and give more people the opportunity to experience some of the many benefits of being active.

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Merseyside Sports Partnership


Merseyside Sports Partnership (MSP) is a network of agencies committed to establishing a fully inclusive structure that will enable people of all ages within Merseyside to benefit from sport and physical activity.

Our evolving partnership seeks to influence a broad range of stakeholders to use sport and physical activity as tools to promote health benefits, social and economic well-being.

By empowering a thriving network of sporting and non-sporting agencies, the Partnership helps position sport to deliver increased participation, sporting success and to contribute to a cultural shift in the way organisations and communities perceive sport and physical activity.

This website has been designed to meet the needs of both its partnership members and the people of Merseyside, however we are constantly looking to improve this service.