A FREE sports session for girls is to held at the Score centre this Friday.
The session is aimed not only at increasing girls' participation in sports but keeping them away from underage drinking and other crime.
Part of 'National Girls Get Moving' week, the session will be run by the Leyton Orient Community Sports Programme on from 4.30 to 6.30 at the centre in Oliver Road, Leyton.
The week is the first of its kind and includes not only sports but and knife awareness workshops.
The scheme was set up through social inclusion programme Positive Futures and is aimed at girls aged eight to 21.
It will include football, basketball, street dance and handball, now an Olympic sport.
Girls from Waltham Forest and neighbouring boroughs including Redbridge and Newham are expect to attend the event.
The Positive Futures programme has 118 projects working with young people in some of the most deprived areas of the UK.
LOCSP is involved in five of these.
To find out about Positive Futures projects in east London, call Shamajul Motin, LOCSP community development officer on 8556 5973 or email shamajul.motin@locsp.org.
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