The Trinidad & Tobago Alliance for Sport and Physical Education (TTASPE) celebrates a major milestone this year as it marks its ten-year anniversary. Founded in March 2002, by a team of sport administrators, physical educators and teacher educators, TTASPE has expanded from the early days of a membership organisation to what is now recognised as a Sport for Development agency. A release from TTASPE stated that when it was formed in 2002, the organisation operated out of the home of one of its founding members and with a team of four volunteers. It hosted several small-scale projects in the areas of adapted physical education; youth sport leadership, junior sport programming and healthy lifestyles. Later that year, TTASPE hosted its first Regional Sport and Physical Education conference, formally launching the TTASPE brand.
Now ten years later, the organisation operates with a full-time staff of 13 at Coora Camp in south Trinidad. In 2009 at the Commonwealth Sport Development Congress in Scotland, TTASPE was recognised as one of the top ten Sport for Development agencies in the world and highlighted for the quality of its work in the Caribbean. TTASPE currently serves as a regional hub for sport for development initiatives in the Caribbean, managing programmes on behalf of the Australian Sports Commission, Commonwealth Games Association of Canada, UK Sport, UNICEF and Partners of the Americas. TTASPE also serves on several regional boards, including the Caricom Regional Advisory Committee for Sport and Physical Education, the Caribbean Sport and Development Agency and the International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance (ICHPER.SD Caribbean).