July 07 Monthly Blog
The National Lottery Awards – vote NOW!
With three of the ten sports projects coming from the East of England, it's time to vote for the country's favourite Lottery project. [see below]
Relaying Sport in the East
Relaying Sport in the East, our own regional version of "Together for Sport", was a two-day conference held for National Governing Bodies of Sport and other partners, at Lakeside Lodge Golf Centre, Pidley, Cambridgeshire on 16 - 17 July 2007. Papers and presentations are now available from the event.
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Sport playing its part
The latest quarterly Sport Playing its Part Newsletter has now been published.
Free managing successful projects training
Having successful project management skills are essential in assisting the smooth running of an organisation or business. This workshop will develop project management skills and explain the role of them in developing an organisation or a business.
To be eligible to attend, you must be involved in the sport and leisure sector AND live in and/or have an office/work base in one of the six counties in the East of England
This workshop will help you to:
With three of the ten sports projects coming from the East of England, it's time to vote for the country's favourite Lottery project. [see below]
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Sport England welcomes new five hour offer
Sport England’s Chairman, Derek Mapp, and Chief Executive, Jennie Price, have warmly welcomed the Prime Minister’s children and young people’s sports announcement.
“The injection of another £100m is good news for school sport and good news for community sport. It means more coaches working across schools and community sports clubs and extends the offer to 16-19 year olds. Sport England will do its part in getting 5-16 year olds to do 5 hours of sport each week and 16-19 year olds to do 3 hours”.
Sport England welcomes new five hour offerSport England’s Chairman, Derek Mapp, and Chief Executive, Jennie Price, have warmly welcomed the Prime Minister’s children and young people’s sports announcement.
“The injection of another £100m is good news for school sport and good news for community sport. It means more coaches working across schools and community sports clubs and extends the offer to 16-19 year olds. Sport England will do its part in getting 5-16 year olds to do 5 hours of sport each week and 16-19 year olds to do 3 hours”.
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Together for Sport
Sport England’s ‘Together for Sport Conference’ took place on 27th & 28th June at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel, with three of the region's County Sport partnerships presenting and the legal and communications sessions being led by regional office colleagues. The event focused on opportunities for partners to create new and strengthen existing ways of working collaboratively to increase participation in community sport through the Delivery System for Sport.
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Together for Sport
Sport England’s ‘Together for Sport Conference’ took place on 27th & 28th June at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel, with three of the region's County Sport partnerships presenting and the legal and communications sessions being led by regional office colleagues. The event focused on opportunities for partners to create new and strengthen existing ways of working collaboratively to increase participation in community sport through the Delivery System for Sport.
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Relaying Sport in the EastRelaying Sport in the East, our own regional version of "Together for Sport", was a two-day conference held for National Governing Bodies of Sport and other partners, at Lakeside Lodge Golf Centre, Pidley, Cambridgeshire on 16 - 17 July 2007. Papers and presentations are now available from the event.
More
Sport playing its part
The latest quarterly Sport Playing its Part Newsletter has now been published.
Free managing successful projects training
Having successful project management skills are essential in assisting the smooth running of an organisation or business. This workshop will develop project management skills and explain the role of them in developing an organisation or a business.
To be eligible to attend, you must be involved in the sport and leisure sector AND live in and/or have an office/work base in one of the six counties in the East of England
This workshop will help you to:
- develop an understanding of project management and its role
- identify how to initiate a project by defining the needs of all those involved and creating clear aims and objectives
- understanding the phases of a project through effective project planning
- identify how to execute a project through effective resource allocation, developing roles and responsibilities and through efficient communication methods
- understand how to monitor the project through simple monitoring tools and techniques.
Dates - 21 July Newmarket, Suffolk
- 13 Sept St Ives, Cambridgeshire
- 27 Sept, Bedfordshire
For event programmes and venue information visit www.acer.ac.uk/events or contact Jenny Rodgers at ACER by phone on 01480 468885 or email jenny@acer.ac.uk
Sport England East Changes
Since our last blog, we are pleased to welcome Kirsty Clarke to the Sport England East team from Youth Active. Kirsty is primarily leading our work in setting up and developing Community Sports Networks. Contact: kirsty.clarke@sportengland.org or tel: 0207 273 1827. Also we say goodbye to Marie Yates who has left the English Federation of Disability Sport as East Regional Officer, to join UK Athletics. For all EFDS enquiries in the interim, please contact 0161 247 5294.
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David Blunkett opens latest phase of golf academy
David Blunkett MP was in Luton during July to open the latest phase of developments at the Kevin Duggan Golf Academy, which is now able to offer golf to blind players with the help of a mentor.
The latest developments at the course have been funded by a £70,000 grant from Sport England together with £18,000 from the Ryder Cup European Development Trust. In fact, the Ryder Cup itself was one of the VIPs, together with Kevin Whately from ITV's Inspector Morse and Luton South MP Margaret Moran.
Opened in 2005, the golf academy is named in memory of 19- year-old keen golfer Kevin Duggan who died in a car accident.
The National Lottery Awards – vote NOW!
With three of the ten sports projects coming from the East of England, it's time to vote for the country's favourite Lottery project.
The National Lottery Awards aim to celebrate and recognise the difference that those projects – both large and small – have made to people, places and communities all across the UK. But hurry voting closes on 3 August
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£30,000 for WASP
WASP– the West Anglia Sports Partnership – is celebrating an award of £30,000 from Sport England’s Community Investment Fund.
The funding received from Sport England will be used to develop a range of projects aimed at increasing the number of people using sport and physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle. One such project is aimed at getting people back into sport after a break to start a family. There is also a plan to work with local sports clubs to hold school sports fairs in each of the main towns in the district, whilst pedometers will be issued to members of the public to monitor how active they are and to use the results to encourage people to walk and cycle more.
WASP is a partnership of organisations that have links to sport or who seek to use sport and physical activity to achieve their own objectives. It is a not-for-profit organisation covering the area served by Forest Heath District Council and the fringes of neighbouring authorities, and aims to promote increased opportunities in sport and physical activity for residents of and visitors to the area.
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The National Lottery Awards – vote NOW!
With three of the ten sports projects coming from the East of England, it's time to vote for the country's favourite Lottery project.
The National Lottery Awards aim to celebrate and recognise the difference that those projects – both large and small – have made to people, places and communities all across the UK. But hurry voting closes on 3 August
More
£30,000 for WASP
WASP– the West Anglia Sports Partnership – is celebrating an award of £30,000 from Sport England’s Community Investment Fund.
The funding received from Sport England will be used to develop a range of projects aimed at increasing the number of people using sport and physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle. One such project is aimed at getting people back into sport after a break to start a family. There is also a plan to work with local sports clubs to hold school sports fairs in each of the main towns in the district, whilst pedometers will be issued to members of the public to monitor how active they are and to use the results to encourage people to walk and cycle more.
WASP is a partnership of organisations that have links to sport or who seek to use sport and physical activity to achieve their own objectives. It is a not-for-profit organisation covering the area served by Forest Heath District Council and the fringes of neighbouring authorities, and aims to promote increased opportunities in sport and physical activity for residents of and visitors to the area.
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Funding Boost for Emerging Athletes in Build up to London 2012
UK Sport and SportsAid, the sports charity, today unveiled a strategic partnership designed to offer enhanced support to emerging athletes across 35 sports in the build up to the London Olympics and Paralympics in 2012.
The new partnership is as a result of changes to the TASS (Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme) scheme introduced to bring more clarity and certainty to the way in which the scholarships are awarded. The changes were immediately welcomed by Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Minister for Sport.
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Community Amateur Sports Club Scheme
4,309 clubs are now benefitting from an estimated £19 million in savings according to Deloitte, thanks to the Community Amateur Sports Club Scheme. The cascinfo web site provides clubs with the key information required to make a decision on joining the scheme.
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London 2012 Roadshows hit the East
Sport England, Active Norfolk and Suffolk Sport have been hosting the London 2012 roadshows which will see 125 sporting taster sessions held nationwide to help people get the sporting habit.
The roadshows saw olympians Goldie Sayers and Victoria Pendleton at the Suffolk Youth Games, and Jonathan Edwards, Karen Pickering, Alison Mowbray and Paul Evans at the Royal Norfolk Show.
You may have missed the roadshows, but you can still "join in" and set a challenge to achieve by 2012.
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Active Norfolk web is second only to Nike
The highly acclaimed Active Norfolk website came second to Nike in the New Media Age Effectiveness Awards, sport category.
Active Norfolk has over 2000 members, and has generated almost 60,000 page views, with a healthy returning visitor ratio of 35% and average page of 6 views per session.
In conjunction with the public facing site there is an extranet, which is a members-only website open to all organisations and individuals involved in sport and physical activity in Norfolk. The extranet is used to inform, educate and provide the opportunity for organisations to promote their activity and events onto the public site, engage in discussion forums, get up to date on relevant news and happenings and enable a means to collect data and information. The extranet is also used to collect data on all of Norfolk sports activity.
To see what impressed the judges click here.
Promoting Equality in Sport and Physical Activity
The Sports Equality East team recently published a guide to help everyone providing services in sport and physical activity to think about some considerations that will help their services be more accessible to under-represented groups.
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UK Sport and SportsAid, the sports charity, today unveiled a strategic partnership designed to offer enhanced support to emerging athletes across 35 sports in the build up to the London Olympics and Paralympics in 2012.
The new partnership is as a result of changes to the TASS (Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme) scheme introduced to bring more clarity and certainty to the way in which the scholarships are awarded. The changes were immediately welcomed by Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Minister for Sport.
More
Community Amateur Sports Club Scheme
4,309 clubs are now benefitting from an estimated £19 million in savings according to Deloitte, thanks to the Community Amateur Sports Club Scheme. The cascinfo web site provides clubs with the key information required to make a decision on joining the scheme.
More
Promote
London 2012 Roadshows hit the EastSport England, Active Norfolk and Suffolk Sport have been hosting the London 2012 roadshows which will see 125 sporting taster sessions held nationwide to help people get the sporting habit.
The roadshows saw olympians Goldie Sayers and Victoria Pendleton at the Suffolk Youth Games, and Jonathan Edwards, Karen Pickering, Alison Mowbray and Paul Evans at the Royal Norfolk Show.
You may have missed the roadshows, but you can still "join in" and set a challenge to achieve by 2012.
More
Active Norfolk web is second only to Nike
The highly acclaimed Active Norfolk website came second to Nike in the New Media Age Effectiveness Awards, sport category.
Active Norfolk has over 2000 members, and has generated almost 60,000 page views, with a healthy returning visitor ratio of 35% and average page of 6 views per session.
In conjunction with the public facing site there is an extranet, which is a members-only website open to all organisations and individuals involved in sport and physical activity in Norfolk. The extranet is used to inform, educate and provide the opportunity for organisations to promote their activity and events onto the public site, engage in discussion forums, get up to date on relevant news and happenings and enable a means to collect data and information. The extranet is also used to collect data on all of Norfolk sports activity.
To see what impressed the judges click here.
Promoting Equality in Sport and Physical Activity
The Sports Equality East team recently published a guide to help everyone providing services in sport and physical activity to think about some considerations that will help their services be more accessible to under-represented groups.
More
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