Sept 2010 High winds, incessant rain and even some hail stones could not dampen the spirits of close to 1 000 Move for Health youngsters as they took on the 5 or 8km challenge of running for their health and for their schools in the MySchool Move for Health Don Lock event held in Claremont Sunday 22 August...... ...more May 2010 President Zuma joined the Let’s Play activation that took place alongside the 50 Day Celebrations in Galashewe, Kimberley on 21st April. 500 children from the community had the opportunity to sharpen their football skills during the day’s activity with Let’s Play partner Active8 & were joined by Zakumi as well as African Legends Doctor Khumalo and JJ Okocha..... ...more March 2010 Ryk Neethling's Swimming Stars program has partnered with Let's Play.... ...more February 2010 Let’s Play in association with Mr Price, Mr Price Sport and RedCap Foundation calls for your support in an annual campaign to help sporting initiatives of the less privileged communities and schools. The campaign runs until the end of February and all donations can be placed in the boxes provided in the Mr Price and Mr Price Sport stores nationwide.... ...more December 2009 From humble beginnings in 2005, SuperSport’s Let’s Play initiative is now confirmed as one of the country’s most visible and successful CSI projects. Broadly intended to get South African children active, Let’s Play is now entrenched in schools, suburbs and townships across the country... ...more November 2009 Let's Play honours young sports stars.. ...more October 2009 Using SuperSport Series to expose youngsters to the latest coaching skills, and tackling obesity through a 50-hour cports challenge.. ...more September 2009 Total has contributed R250 000 to Lets Play to date with an estimated 40 000 soccer balls distributed bearing the Total logo at activations across South Africa. Total recently made an additional commitment to the partnership with an expected 10 000 additional balls to be distributed in 2010.. ...more August 2009 Let’s Play has received yet another financial boost following the sponsorship of R250 000 from Zodiac Pool Care South Africa. ...more July 2009 Let’s Play teamed up recently with the SA Rugby Legends as they launched their new Legacy Park in Protea Glen, Soweto. ...more June 2009 Sony Ericsson has partnered with Let’s Play and Active Education, Play Partner to Let’s Play, to hold a literacy and ball skills competition in 80 schools located near stadium venues in Johannesburg, Rustenburg, Bloemfontein and Pretoria. ...more May 2009 The importance of play – for development and for mental health – is often not mentioned in articles related to children’s needs. Issues like safety, health, nutrition, shelter and education are seen to be more important. Many children in South Africa lack spaces and opportunities to play. ...more April 2009 Easter time is the perfect opportunity to get outdoors with your kids and have a lot of fun, such as the Easter egg hunt or egg and spoon race or egg decorating are all some fun related games and ideas on how to get your kids physically active. ...more March 2009 The greater part of February has been spent driving the collection of sporting equipment for the Gear Up Our Kids campaign with Mr Price Red Cap Foundation, the results of which are imminent....more February 2009 The dawn of 2009 signals a whole new year of opportunities to introduce regular sport and activity to the lives of children around the country. Also, there's our Gear up our Kids initiative, which runs in February....more October 2008 This edition of the newsletter highlights the award recieved by Let's Play as we as the recent events around the country involving Let's Play ...more 30 September 2008 This edition of the newsletter showcases the BSG/Energade Triathlon Series, which incorporates children's events; we review the importance of dairy and protein for building strong bones; and we accept a cheque for R25000 from Toyota and their nationwide cricket coaching clinics. finally, we say farewell to our Communications Editor ...more 4 September 2008 In this newsletter we look at making friends through sport, a man's personal initiative that makes a difference to Cwebe children, 17 Squadron's outreach initiative, Toyota's continued investment in cricket and Shelly Robinson, our August Sports Star ...more 20 August 2008 Our new Olympic-themed promo will inspire you to greatness; it airs this week. We also review how balls given to displayed communities brings sport and light to their situation; and we celebrate a new bill passed in the US that makes children's toys and products more safe; and we catch up with a sporting holiday programme ...more 7 August 2008 In this busy issue we invite you to enter a men's or women's team for the ZOK 5-a-side Corporate Soccer Festival later this month. We also accept a donation of balls from T-Systems and we team up with the Gauteng Department of Health. We read about TIME's Top 10 tips to get your children moving and we warn that hearing TV is as bad a watching TV ...more 23 July 2008 This week we celebrate SuperSport staff as they embark on our internal "The Biggest Loser SuperSport competition"; LPAM achieves success in crime plagued schools; young children play more than teens; and we invite schools to play Touch Rugby ...more 8 July 2008 In this edition we see that physical therapy is as beneficial for children as it is for adults; 100 children will enjoy a day of games and play with Felda Foods; Jessica Pengelly was our June Supersport Star of the Month; and we look at the next Momentum Health Teavigo Duathlon ...more 23 June 2008 In this issue we look at whether U.S. childhood obesity rates are levelling off; how to choose toys for childen; a generous donation received from MTN; and Sport For All's "Adopt a child" programme, where you can sponsor regular sports coaching and life skills lessons for a child at only R35/month ...more 13 June 2008 This Friday the 13th is a lucky one for all kinds of exciting news. In this newsletter we tell you about the Momentum Health Teavigo Duathlon Series, the Spur Soccer Masidlale programme, an initiative by Island View Storage to support activity in schools near their business premises and Felda Bridge Africa's Sports Jamboree ...more 4 June 2008 In this edition of our newsletter we look at Sporting Opportunities' new community coaching programme in Mpumalanga, make our new Let's Play theme song available for download, play soccer in a refugee camp and look at what it means to be overweight ...more 23 May 2008 We go for NEW in this new-look edition of our newsletter. We welcome Nestle as a sponsor and Learn 2 Surf as a Play Partner. We also launch our new print campaign ...more 7 May 2008 In this bumper issue of our newsletter we welcome Anna Foundation to our family of Play Partners, accept a donation from MTN cricket, hand out balls to Boschkop Primary and announce the partnership of Let's Play with Spur ...more 18 April 2008 Boost your child's confidence with these few tips, read about Rhodes Trail Run's generous equipment donation to the local public school and be able to run or walk 5km in 6-weeks! We also tell you about a new range of children's SuperSport branded clothing at Woolworths ...more 2 April 2008 Healthy food does equate to healthy minds (and bodies) in this issue of our newsletter. We also follow up on a Special Olympics day at the Sunshine Centre, children's Beach Soccer in Durban and some of the smaller places that our Let's Play a Million balls are distributed to ...more 19 March 2008 This newsletter has fabulous content from our Play Partners on their activities. We've got a bit on children's open water swimming from Splash Swimming, a Kili summit from Life College and a cricket coaching clinic in Nyanga from Sporting Chance ...more 5 March 2008 In this brief update, we address the avoidance of alcohol, drugs and tobacco. We also complete our Gear Up Our Kids equipment donations for the first half of this year ...more 22 February 2008 I've made this a bit of a longer newsletter, to highlight some of the things that happen behind the scenes. I usually report on Let's Play a Million, Play Partners and "major" happenings. But on a daily basis there are handfuls of emails from the public offering assistance or looking for assistance ...more 6 February 2008 We're excited about the new "Let The Children Learn And Play" campaign, initiated this year by the Department of Education. Research studies also confirm that active parents are most likely to raise active children; you have a major influence on your child's activity choices ...more 22 January 2008 In this edition, our first for the year, we look at how parents percieve their children's weight, the association of Cellfind's Look4Me service with Let's Play and the re-start of Let's Play campaigns for the year ...more Newsletter Archive 2007's Let's Play newsletters 2006's Let's Play newsletters