The 2022 inspire+ conference took place on Friday 16th September, at Belton Woods Hotel. Attended by 40 local member schools of the charity, the conference had keynotes from its patrons Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam and Alan Watkinson. The former world 400m hurdler Dai Greene, one of the guest speakers, was officially announced as a Sports Ambassador and will join the team by visiting schools and providing assemblies. The attendees had the opportunity to participate in workshops offered with contributions from Carol Hines, former Headteacher at Bluecoat and 52 Lives Greig and Jaime.

The conference was the first one delivered face-to-face in two years, and the feedback from schools was very positive.

‘Firstly, I just wanted to send my thanks for the PE conference. This was the first one that I have attended as PE Subject Lead at Deeping St James Primary School and I found the day informative, interesting and very useful. It has inspired me to raise the status of Physical Education at DSJ and it has given me lots of ideas of how this can be achieved throughout this year, alongside your team at inspire+.’