Welcome to the Sports Development Team home page!

Sports Development delivers a wide range of Services to provide opportunities for people throughout Wigan to engage in lifelong participation in sport and physical activity.

The Teams ability to deliver a high quality service and work effectively with partner organisations has resulted in a significant increase in staffing capacity over the past few years. We take immense pride in having a talented and dedicated team of Managers, Officers and Coaches who are committed to achieving the Vision and Mission Statement.

► Riding the Quest of a wave

Mission Statement
"Wigan Sports Development is committed to providing a range of quality services that promote sport and physical activity opportunities, to enable people throughout the Borough to 'Get Active and Stay Active'."

To contact members the Team, please access the Staff Contact List link on the left-hand side of this page.

Our key partners include:

• Children and Young Peoples Services

• Schools

• Community Safety

• Primary Care Trust

• Wigan Borough Sports Council

• Greater Sport

• Youth Offending Team

Cohesive partnership working and a shared commitment to increasing participation in physical activity is supporting us to make a positive difference to lives in Wigan.

Our range of services include:

• Active Coaching in Schools

• Get Active in Your Community

• Active Clubs

• Get Active, Get Volunteering

• Get Active, Get Coaching

• Talent ID Programme

• Targeted Health Programmes

• Get Active Holiday Activities

In addition, we host a number of high profile events – details of which can be found by clicking on the appropriate links from the navigation bar on the left of this page.

Customer satisfaction is at the heart of all our services and Staff work hard to deliver the highest standard of service delivery, 100% of the time. We welcome any feedback you may have about our Service and look forward to seeing you at one of our ‘Get Active’ sessions very soon!

Lynsey Randall
Principal Sports Development Manager

For more information please contact the Sports Development Team on 01942 404982. or email sdu@wlct.org

Wigan Sports Development Team has achieved Quest Approval