FROM THE EDITOR: Let's celebrate sport for fun, fitness and friendship

There’s been no rush for the little one’s school run and no hurried dinners before the middle one’s training sessions.

While nobody wants to find themselves back home instead of partying with their university friends, I have really loved having the eldest back for family time together.

I appreciate that those who have isolated in families are the lucky ones.

Even when the challenges of parenthood made the opposite seem true, enforced time completely alone is a far bigger challenge.

Even though schools won’t be open to all until September at the earliest, after school clubs are starting to return.

Last night we headed to our first basketball session since March. It was different, in a pod and only six children, but so nice to see everyone.

Sport is such an important part of so many people’s lives, and I don’t mean the professionals but the ones who do it for fun, fitness and friendship.

I would love to hear how your sports club is training or how members are keeping fit and in touch within the present restrictions.

Email me [email protected] and let’s work together to share the stories of this city’s many, incredible sporting Sheffielders.

We want to report on your club and get photos of your unusual training methods so it is recorded for posterity.

While it is the biggest and best-paid sports which dominate all media coverage, there are many other stories that we want to work with you to tell. Most people’s involvement in sport is within their community and it means more than is widely acknowledged.

That is why the least glamorous of SIV’s venues are, arguably, the most important ones.

Sport must be available to all and we must fight to protect it.

Nobody will be impressed that our council has failed to answer what are very reasonable questions on how millions of pounds of taxpayers' money is being spent.

Sadly, I am sure most of us also won’t be surprised.

We must all be on the side of SIV and we would love to be because Sheffield’s future without it is unimaginable. Why the council do not see that and work with its city is, in all honesty, beyond my understanding.