Funding secured by the Kent Athletics Network (KAN) has enabled over 450 young people from all over Kent to take part in introduction to athletics courses. The network successfully applied for over £10k of Sport Unlimited Funding.

The QuadKids movement continues to move forward with another outstanding network event hosted by Highgate Harriers. Mother Nature loses (again) versus Highgate Harriers QuadKids. The wind huffed, the wind puffed, and the wind blew as hard as it could but it could not put 80 children off their QuadKids athletics mission.

Last summer 15-year-old sprinter Kyle Powell was competing in local league fixtures for his club St.Mary’s Richmond AC...this year he was invited to compete for Great Britain in the BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester!

Playground to Podium County Athlete Assessment Days (CAAD) are proving hugely successful; for example in the North of England a number of potential athletics stars have been identified and encouraged to take their talents further.

The North Yorkshire McCain Athletics Network will be hosting their next coach development workshop on Tuesday 12th July. The workshop will provide an introduction and explanation of QuadKids and Super8, and how they can be easily implemented within club training sessions.

All clubs rely heavily on volunteers to help grease and oil the machinery that keeps them operating.  Clubs have also relied heavily, in the past, on local schools to provide the talent that our volunteer coaches and team managers have fashioned into champions.

The Super8 format has been given the thumbs up by schools in Kent.  Super 8 is the new format being promoted by England Athletics for secondary schools, with teams of eight boys and eight girls competing over eight events and with the scores of all the athletes added together to give the team score.

London schools athletics team look sure to have some strong medal contenders for next month's English Schools' championships after a successful Championships at Millenium Arena, Battersea Park.

Adam Cotton appears to have found himself a new event after twice breaking the Birchfield Harriers U20 1500 metres club record on two occasions in the past fortnight.

British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) and The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) have been working together over the last twelve months to establish the BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships as a test event for the London 2012 Olympic Games.