ENGLAND footballer Siobhan Chamberlain is set to inspire young people in Slough at a Sportivate female football project this month.

The project is one of the key initiatives to creating a sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Chamberlain, who returned from the Women's World Cup in Canada with a bronze medal, is one of England's top keepers and plays for Notts County in the Women's Super League.

She will visit the Sportivate project in her capacity as a Sport England Sporting Champion. The session will take place at Powerleague in Ragstone Road, Slough this Friday from 6-7pm.

"I'm really looking forward to this exciting Sportivate project in Slough," said Chamberlain. "I can't wait to help them get into sport and share my experience of proudly representing England.

"Sportivate is a fantastic way of getting young people into sport and that's something I'm really passionate about.

"I believe that I can inspire everyone in attendance to raise their aspirations of what they can achieve, and motivate them to be the very best versions of themselves that they can be."

Sportivate is the £56 million National Lottery funded Olympic and Paralympic legacy initiative that gives 11-25-year-olds six to eight weeks of coaching in a new sport, and then helps them find low cost ways to continue to play.

Jayne Molyneux, the strategic lead for youth at Sport England, said: "It's great to see Siobhan helping to inspire young people taking part in Sportivate to carry on participating in a sport they may never have tried before.

"Our Sportivate programme is all about listening to young people and putting on taster sessions in a sport of their choice to help them make the step into community sport and set them on the path to creating a sporting habit for life."

Recent figures published in April 2014 have revealed that Sportivate has retained 357,789 young people and therefore exceeded its four-year target a year early.