A High Wycombe gaming sports club is offering a school the chance to win £2,500 worth of technology equipment.

Active Gamerz, a club that uses motion control technology to get primary and secondary school children involved in sport, has teamed up with tech giant Acer to offer the prize to the winner of its next athletic world championship competition.

The club’s world athletic competition started in an Amersham school hall in 2013 with just 15 participants. Now, around 1,000 club members take part from various schools around the county that take part in their club programme, in a bid to become world champions and also win a trip to New York.

Richard Tweed, 29, co-founder of the club, said they are hoping to “create community cohesion” with the initiative which will see the winning school kitted out with technology equipment of its choice.

He said: “People think gaming sports are not difficult but the children who take part in the games still work just as hard and need the same physical and mental attributes needed to play any sport.”

Speaking about the club, he said he had found parents often did not support their children to play and excel in sport and pushed them towards traditional education instead.

This motivated the father-of-four to set up the club with twin brother James in 2011 at the Disraeli School in High Wycombe with the aim to provide an alternative sports club which would engage children in physical activity using modern technology.

He added: “We push our kids hard. We are not of the ‘taking part that counts’ mindset, we want our children to win.”

The former professional footballers previously played for Oxford United and Northern Ireland on a national level and it was their love of sport that inspired them to start the club. They now run 27 clubs nationally with 16 of those in Buckinghamshire.

The competition will be held on July 9 at the Magnet Centre in Maidenhead.