Sport England Update |
Sport revealed as a priority for local authorities SE Press release SE, 1 July
Also, see item below in the Government section where the details in LAA priorities are referred to.
Taking Part Survey latest results New figures released from the Taking Part Survey (DCMS) show that there has been an increase in adults doing three 30 minute sessions of sport a week. Results from the first six months of the third year of the study show that 21.6% of the nations adults now participate in moderate intensity sport three times a week compared to 20.2% in the period July to December 2005 - the first six months of the survey. Please click here to view Year 3 first 6 months report.
Sports information packs and comparative sport data Sport England has recently published detailed sport information packs, which bring together data from the Active People Survey, the Taking Part Survey, and Sport England's market segmentation. These are now available on our website, under a new section called 'sports facts', and also referenced under the 'latest research' page. The links are: http://www.sportengland.org/index/get_resources/research/sport_fact_sheets.htm http://www.sportengland.org/index/get_resources/research/latest_research.htm
Sport and Coaching New Centre for Coaching Excellence A new centre designed to enhance coaching excellence has been opened at Leeds Metropolitan University. The coaching centre is the first of its kind in the UK and is designed to train professional coaches. The centre will be run by a world-class Coaching Faculty who will look to pass on their expertise to the future generation of coaches.
The centre will focus on developing four areas of coaching; these include high performance coaches (to work with elite athletes), performer development coaches (to identify talent), participation coaches (who will primarily work in the community) and childrens coaches. For further information please see here
Sport and Dance
Additional funding to be made available for dance opportunities for young people
Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge MP, has today announced that more than £100,000 is to be made available for greater dance opportunities for young people, including classes in body popping, polka and pirouettes. The additional funding will enable Youth Dance England to continue their work as part of the PE and Sport Strategy for Young People, as well as providing for greater links between schools and local dance schools to bring a variety of dance experiences to pupils. For more information, click here
Sport and the Regions
DCMS Regional Infrastructure Review The Minister for Culture, Margaret Hodge MP, has outlined a new framework for the four key agencies within the DCMS to work together to deliver a shared set of priorities. The four agencies earmarked are Sport England, the Arts Council England, English Heritage, and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The four bodies will be expected to work together to ensure a joined-up approach across a number of different areas, including local area agreements, regional strategies, local government commitment to culture and sport, place shaping, and liaising with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG)
In issuing this new approach, the Culture Minister announced that the work done by Regional Cultural Consortia would come to an end, with their responsibilities being absorbed by the four bodies within their new collaborative framework. The long term aim of the infrastructure changes is to ensure better savings and redistribution of funds.
For more information please see here
Sport and Communities New funding provision for communities outlined
A new funding package for deprived communities has been outlined by the Communities Minister Baroness Andrews. The package includes over £250 million new funding, in addition to the £230 million announced previously, to help communities across a broad range of areas, including improving education standards and lowering crime rates. This announcement is the latest in a series of funding provisions for the 39 Communities within the New Deal programme, and forms part of a £2bn package aimed at improving deprived areas.
For further information please see here
MJ Achievement awards Please view the LGA site to view the list of winners Congratulations to the winners from our region: Birmingham City Council Legal Also, our congratulations to all other councils short listed for the awards this year.
Respect Athlete Mentoring Programme (RAMP) Please click on the links below to view the RAMP documents: RAMP Case Study - Fiona Neale, Birmingham
House of Commons & House of Lords sport questions House of Commons Questions Cunningham Physical Activity: Elderly Tue, 24 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what steps the Government have taken to encourage pensioners to take more physical exercise; [212266]
.. Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families at what proportion of secondary schools in (a) England, (b) London and (c) each London local authority area pupils played (i) four hours or more sport a week and (ii) competitive inter-school sport in 2006-07. [214316]
. Foster, D Sports England (Community Projects Fund ) Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what proportion of Sport Englands funding has been spent on the Community Projects Fund since 1999. [213000]
Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to how many new or enhanced facilities requiring funding under £100,000 Sport England allocated funding through their Community Projects Capital Fund in each year since 1999; and how many of these facilities were deemed to have significantly benefited people from ethnic minority communities in each year. [212986]
. Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to how many new or enhanced 30 Jun 2008 : Column 587W facilities requiring funding over £100,000 Sport England allocated funding through their Community Projects Capital Fund in each year since 1999; and how many of these facilities were based on education sites. [212985]
. Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment Sport England has made of sport action zones; and what reports have been commissioned on their operation. [213785]
. Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent by Sport England via the Football Youth Development programme in each year since 1999. [213789]
. Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been spent by Sport England on sports ground safety through the Football Trust and Sports Ground Initiative since 1999. [213793]
. Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been spent by Sport England through their World Class revenue programmes in each year since 1999. [213788]
Mon, 30 June 2008 | House of Commons Written Answer Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many sports were funded by Sport Englands World Class funding programme in each year since 1999. [213787]
.. Hodge makes statement on DCMS Engagement Wed, 2 July 2008 | House of Commons Written Ministerial Statements Summary The following written ministerial statement has been made today by Minister of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Margaret Hodge
Non-governmental and other Organisations Press Releases SkillsActive reports as ASA pioneers skills analysis initiative for sport Mon, 30 June 2008 | Government Body Press Release Summary SkillsActive has announced that, together with the national governing body involved in every component of swimming (ASA,) it has been working to roll out a brand new online workforce development solution for sport.
Tue, 24 June 2008 | Campaign Organisation Press Release Summary The Football Foundation announced that it was joining Sport Relief in launching a £500,000 initiative aimed at helping the over-60s stay active and healthy. .
House of Commons Questions Jenkins - Amateur and School Sports (Tamworth) Thu, 3 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding his Department has provided to (a) amateur sports clubs and (b) sport in schools in Tamworth constituency in each year since 1997. [215776] .. Thu, 3 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Joan Ryan: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding his Department provided to (a) amateur sports clubs and (b) sport in schools in (i) Enfield North constituency and (ii) London in each year since 1997. [213803]
Thu, 3 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what proportion of Sport England's Community Projects Fund has been spent in areas of deprivation since 1999. [212999]
.. Thu, 3 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much and what proportion of Sport England's Community Projects Fund was spent on administration in each year since 1999. [212988]
. Foster, D - Sport England (Community Projects) Thu, 3 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent on sports action zones through Sport England's (a) Community Projects Capital Fund, (b) Community Investment Fund and (c) community sports networks in each year since 1999. [212984]
Thu, 3 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what proportion of Sport England's Community Projects Revenue Fund has been spent in areas of deprivation since 1999. [212982]
.. Foster, D - Sport England (Community Development) Thu, 3 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent by Sport England through the Community Projects Revenue Fund in each year since 1999. [213791]
Foster, D - Sport England's Community Projects Revenue Fund (Rural Areas) Thu, 3 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many projects targeting rural areas have received funding from Sport England's Community Projects Revenue Fund since 1999. [213794]
.. Robertson, H - English Sports Council Mon, 7 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will place in the Library (a) an organogram of Sport England's key responsibilities under its new strategy and (b) a list of the delivery agencies who will carry them out. [214527] .
Foster, D - English Sports Council (Expenditure) Mon, 7 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been spent by Sport England on specialist national facilities, excluding those on UK Sports Institute sites, in each year since 1999. [213792] Mon, 7 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much Sport England has received in (a) grant-in-aid and (b) lottery funding in each year since 1999. [213783]
. Foster, D - Sports (Finance) Wed, 9 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many projects aimed at (a) ethnic communities, (b) disabled communities and (c) women and girls have received funding from Sport England's Community Projects Revenue Fund since 1999. [212992]
Commons Statements MPs hear statement on Communities in Control Wed, 9 July 2008 | Statement Debate Summary After Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Hazel Blears had given a statement on Communities in Control, she took questions from opposition spokespersons and backbench MPs
.. Thu, 3 July 2008 | Campaign Organisation Press Release Summary The British Paralympic Association has reported that two football teams will be traveling to Beijing to represent Britain at this summers Paralympic Games in Beijing. ParalympicsGB has confirmed the British athletes to compete in the five-a-side and seven-a-side football tournaments at the Games in September.
CCPR claims 'sports clubs at risk from death by a thousand cuts' Wed, 9 July 2008 | Campaign Organisation Press Release Summary The Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) has announced that, in her review of its year at this year's Annual General Meeting, Brigid Simmonds OBE will say that the sport and recreation sector is struggling to maintain the status quo in the face of increasing bureaucracy and over-regulation... To read the full reports click here
House of Commons & House of Lords sport questions 18 July 08
Foster, D - Sport England Community Projects Revenue Fund Mon, 14 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many projects have received funding from Sport England's Community Projects Revenue Fund since 1999; and what estimate he has made of the number of people who participated in those projects. [217167]
Mon, 14 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many awards Sport England made to projects encouraging (a) school, (b) after-school and (c) community club links in each year since 1999. [217168]
.. Tue, 15 July 2008 | House of Commons - Written Answer Mr. Dodds: To ask the Minister for the Olympics what recent assessment she has made of the potential economic effects of the 2012 Olympic Games on each region. [215284] To read the full reports click here
CLG White Paper Communities in control: Real people, real power published 9 July 2008.
The Business and Enterprise Committee has announced an inquiry into the role of regional development agencies (RDAs) The study will look at the implications of the Governments review of sub national economic development and regeneration may have on that role.
CCPR Policy Update CCPR CEO e-forum
WM 2012 newsletter Click here for the latest edition of Giving it our all
2012 Activity Calendar View the latest edition here
For the lastest list of competing athletes click here
2012 - Dates to note in the West Midlands 24 August - Official Olympic handover and UK wide celebrations. 26-28 September - Launch of Cultural Olympiad nationwide
National School Sport Week in the West Midlands Dame Kelly Holmes arrived by helicopter at South Bromsgrove High School on Wednesday, 2nd July, for the North Worcestershire & Redditch Partnership Games. The focus of her visit was the inter school competition which potentially reached 540 young people competing in a variety of activities, organised by School Sport Partnerships and supported by Local Authorities, National Governing Bodies, Community Sports Coaches and a variety of other partnership agencies.
Extended schools report - Dept for Children Schools and families Extending schools: Testing the delivery of the core offer in and around schools. Final report of the research study for DCSF, 22 April 2008. See the news item on extending activities in the Government section.
DCFS press release on positive activities young people and extended communities Summers coming! 07 July 2008 - More activities for young people this summer -
Office of the Third Sector Criminal Records Bureau checks guidance for volunteering June 2008.
Letter from Sec of State for Culture, Media and Sport re Play to win also Annex A re the free swimming proposals Please click here to see the related letter dated 4 July from Andy Burnham.
New framework for action on social marketing and public health Ambitions for Health To view the letter to stakeholders from Dawn Primarolo Minister of State for Public Health click here.
The first set of Multi-Area Agreements (MAAs) have been signed by councils and the communities secretary.
Read the full details here
Well@Work study press release BHF launches results of UKs first healthy workplace pilot scheme 14 July 2008 Employers can play a key role in getting the nation moving and eating more fruit and veg, a new study revealed today. Findings from the Well@Work pilot programme, the first of its kind in the UK, showed that workplace health programmes can have a big impact on levels of physical activity, fruit and vegetable intake, staff morale, communications and the working atmosphere. Read the full press release here
Win a Barclays Premier League Player (England)
http://www.premierleague.com/page/CreatingChances Please note - the examples arent sports related, however there are many community groups that use sport as a diversionary tool.
Awards for All latest news For information on the most recent round of awards click here. To view articles relating to some of the Awards for All in the West Midlands recently click on the relevant links below. Arty Array of West Midlands Projects hits the jackpot Music and Play for Children in Warwickshire Wolves Boys to Celebrate Anniversary with a Bang Lottery sets the Stage for Worcestershire Community Groups StreetGames WM To view the E-alert from 9 July 2008 click here. |
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