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PM Brown Rings the Changes New Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stamped his own mark on the cabinet with a number of changes. Tessa Jowell is replaced by James Purnell as Culture Secretary. Sports Minister, Richard Caborn stood down to take up the PM’s offer to become World Cup Ambassador. For more details click here.
Sport England - Plan for community sport consultation - June to 10 September 2007 The web consultation for the ‘Plan for Community Sport’ went live on the website this week. Please can you encourage any of your partners who you feel would be interested in responding, to do so. The deadline for responses will be 10th Sept (please ignore the 31st Aug deadline that is currently on the web - that is being extended to ensure its over 3 months long). There is a web version click here as well as a word version click here which people can download and scribble on if they prefer. The survey references the Framework for Sport, 2004 - please view a copy - click hereDCMS document - ‘Our Promise for 2012: How the UK will benefit from the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games’. Press release - click here to view. Click here to download the full document via the DCMS site.
London 2012 outlines vision for Cultural Olympiad View the press release from 21 June - click here 2012 Activity Calendar Click here for latest edition.
Sport and the Olympics (DCMS) London 2012: Your Games, Your Say The Olympics Minister, Tessa Jowell, and the London 2012 Chairman, Seb Coe, will come face-to-face with members of the public later this month in a new initiative designed to give people a chance to tell big names involved with 2012 what's on their mind and get answers to their questions about the Games. These will consist of a one-hour question and answer session, which will also include a presentation about progress so far on the road to 2012.
Everyday Sport - explaining what has happened to this campaign
SE’s Sport playing its part newsletter volume 2 Click here to view.
Home Office endorses physical activity as tool for diverting young people away from crime Football, dance, boxing and carpentry classes are helping steer young people from crime and anti-social behaviour, Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said during a joint visit to a south London community centre with Children's Minister Beverley Hughes. He cited how the Lambeth North Positive Futures Project was an excellent example of the kind of project which, through activities and training, hosts a network of support for young people aged 11 to 18 and helps prevent them from embarking on a life of crime. Of those involved in Positive Futures projects over three-quarters believed they cut anti-social behaviour and more than two-thirds believed they cut crime.
Treasury pledges £340 million for disabled children
A package of policies aimed at supporting disabled children and their families was announced last week by the Treasury and DfES, as they published the report: ‘Aiming High for Disabled Children: Better Support for Families’, part of the wider Policy Review of Children and Young People. The Review commits the Government to boosting the provision of vital services and giving parents of disabled children a real choice in how they are delivered, underpinned by over £340 million of investment. The Review sets out clear action across health, social services and education, to provide a better-coordinated approach to service provision, and enhance equality and opportunity for disabled children and their families. It focuses on three priority areas: access and empowerment, response services and timely support, and improving quality and capacity of services. Click here for further information.
Opportunities for Sport The Sport sector should continue to ensure that all facilities and activities are open and accessible to disabled groups and continue to promote the Inclusive Fitness programme.
Food Commission: Newspapers fail to support women's sport Physical activity is essential for everybody's health, but sports coverage in our national newspapers appears to be discriminating against women, according to the Food Commission, A three week survey published in The Food Magazine has revealed that no national newspaper was able to dedicate more than 4.5% of sports coverage to women, with the “worst offender”, The Sun, providing just 0.21% of coverage to women's sport. Without sporting heroes to aspire to, the Commission believes that there is a real risk that newspapers are discouraging women from participating in sport. The survey, undertaken in March and April 2007, analysed more than 3,000 sports pages. The total coverage of women's sport in this period amounted to only 60 pages (2%), with almost one third of the individual newspapers failing to mention women at all on their sports pages.
150 employers sign skills pledge and announces new academy for sport and active leisure Education and Skills Secretary Alan Johnson congratulated the first 150 employers to sign up to a public pledge to train their staff, ensuring they have the skills needed to compete in the global workplace. By making the Skills Pledge, employers commit to support all their employees to develop basic literacy and numeracy skills and work towards a full level 2 qualification equivalent to five GCSEs A* to C. In addition Mr Johnson announced the chair of the new UK Commission for Employment and Skills - a powerful new employer-led voice at the heart of the skills and employment agenda; and unveiled four New National Skills Academies. Mr Johnson also announced the selection of four further National Skills Academies. One of the academies will be for sport and active leisure. The Academy will aim to act as a ‘one stop shop’ for information on core skills, recruitment issues, career pathways and workforce development opportunities in the sports sector. The Academy will mean that training provision will directly link to the needs of employers across the active leisure sector and ensure employers have access to a more cost-effective range of training. Rather than being ‘bricks and mortar’, the SkillsActive Academy will be led by a virtual website and underpinned by learning ‘hubs’ and centres of excellence across England. It aims to provide a joined up approach to training provision, but also to directly address specific regional skills needs.
Opportunities for Sport This announcement is very encouraging and any assistance in development of the skills in the sports sector can only be of benefit to sports participation. It will also help to attract new employees to the sports sector.
Policy Research Institute on Ageing & Ethnicity PRIAE has spent the last two years consulting older people, collecting positive images and assessing active ageing programmes across the UK. PRIAE is now looking for physical activities that are delivered solely to (and engage) groups of BME elders (individuals over 50). PRIAE wants to be put in touch with organisations that deliver physical activities to groups of BME elders in a variety of settings, e.g. community centres, residential homes, care homes etc. These physical activities must have proven (anecdotal or formally evaluated) health benefits of different health conditions such as depression, dementia, osteo-arthritis etc. These activities will be referred to (and included) in PRIAE’s Cultural Diversity Physical Programme. It will be an opportunity for the organisation delivering the activity to raise its profile nationally and across Europe. I would be grateful if you could cascade this e-mail to your members that deliver physical activities to groups of BME elders. PRIAE is particularly interested in raising the profile of lesser known cultural physical activities that older people can participate in. For further information about the AIM Project and the development of the Cultural Diversity Physical Programme, please contact me Yolande Watson NOTE: Please copy Naomi Bird nbird@staffordbc.gov.uk in on any in correspondence sent through to PRIAE so that we can pull together everything being submitted from across the County Sports Partnership - thank you.
Stand Up Speak Up – Free clinics –one in our region in Wolverhampton on 9 July Stand Up Speak Up is an anti-racism campaign delivered in the UK and Ireland by the Football Foundation on behalf of the King Baudouin Foundation, based in Brussels. Stand Up Speak Up is running a number of FREE clinics, which are being held to assist and encourage local groups to access Football Foundation Small Grants, and Community and Education Grants, for diversity and wider social engagement schemes.
CCPR Policy Update & CEO Forum Policy Update May edition: click here NPFA – new name ‘FIT’ – announced on 21 May 07 From their release on 21 May (apologies if you have already picked up on this):
BLF – Living Landmarks programme The final 23 projects biding for multi-million pound funding in the Big Lottery Fund’s Living Landmarks programme have made it through the starting gates to compete for a slice of the £140 million available to fund several ground breaking initiatives. Under the Living Landmarks funding stream, the 23 projects have applied for a small number of grants of between £10 million and £25 million. The West Midlands is being represented by Birmingham's Eastside City Park in this exciting programme. A second imitative, Living Landmarks: The People’s Millions, will see six projects battling it out for a single grant of between £25 million and £50 million. The winning project will be decided by public vote in a televised contest run in conjunction with ITV later this year. The West Midlands project in this category is called A Million People - The Black Country as an Urban Park, an application submitted by the Black Country Consortium Limited. Please view the press release from 4 June: - click here Community Amateur Sports Clubs Click here to view the letter from Richard Caborn encouraging a greater take-up of the scheme and asking for support to publicise it widely to all groups.
England Athletics in WM asking for your support Note received via Energise STW from England Athletics in WM: You need to register your details first in order to be able to vote - name, address etc which doesn't take long . Once you are registered go to "Cast your vote" and in the Find Initiative box at the top right hand side select "West Midlands" from the drop down menu. This bring up a list of all of the projects in the Region. Mine is called "Disability Athletics Team Challenge". If you have any problems voting please let me know then I can contact the site, it would make a massive difference to what we can provide for disability athletics if we win the Regional award so please get voting!!! -Ends-
UK School Games - volunteering opportunities at the event 23- 26 August 2007 UK School Games Volunteering Opportunities: Volunteers will be crucial to the success of this event and 150 are still required for a variety of different positions. Roles include Drivers, Programme and Ticket sellers, and Stewards. All volunteers will be provided with kit and invited to an 'end of event party'. It is an excellent opportunity to build up your volunteering portfolio for the 2012 Games. For further information please contact Richard Oddy, Tel: 02476795979, Email: r.oddy@coventry.ac.uk
SE press release re Basketball Sport England gives basketball £325,000. Click here to view the press release. Golf development Officer - being hosted by CSW The Golf Foundation Move In! Gareth Jenkins, Midlands Development Officer for The Golf Foundation, moved into the CSW Sport office on the 1st June. For information, Gareth's contact details are: 07765 258440 / gareth@golf-foundation.org More info on The Golf Foundation can be viewed on their website at: www.golf-foundation.org BBC Sports Awards – back in the WM for 2007 Please view the press release announcing this - click here IFI newsletter – not received recently Just to make you aware that they are reviewing their newsletter process and this is why we haven’t received an issue for quite a while. You can update on their news via the website.
National Coalition for Active Ageing (NCAA) Introduction to material attached - extract from letter: ‘My name is Charlotte Almond and I will be working for the National Coalition for Active Ageing (NCAA) as an intern for the next 3 months. During this time I have been asked to develop a regular electronic newsletter on Active Ageing and undertake an analysis of the initiatives that are being undertaken to promote more physical activity amongst older adults aged 50+ in different parts of the country. In order to achieve this I am contacting different organisations with a short survey to seek their help in providing any relevant information associated with promoting active ageing.’Documents sent by Charlotte: - click on the following documents to view: document 1 , document 2 , document 3
Property Week - feature extract re SE planning Interesting feature highlighting SE - click here to view.
British Equestrian Federation BEF Head of Regional Development (x1) – full-time• BEF Regional Development Co-ordinator (x4) – part-time. Closing date: 16 July. Click here to view details. |
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