Sports Development
About Us
Allerdale Borough Council, Sport and Recreation Unit provides
opportunities for people to participate in sport and recreation
through its parks and open spaces, sports and leisure centres,
sports pitches, recreation grounds and public halls. The Sports
Development Team works in partnership to contribute towards
improving the health and wellbeing of local communities through a
range of physical activity and sports initiatives.
We aim to provide advice and support to local community clubs
and groups in their development. The team is able to provide a
variety of sports related information to assist the development
process. This may include coach education courses, volunteering
opportunities and funding information.
The key sports development performance targets for 2010/2011
are:
- Continued involvement in the Cumbria Sports
Partnership and networking with local sports clubs, Governing
Bodies of Sport and other relevant agencies.
- Work with partners to organise holiday
recreation schemes for young people.
- Provide training opportunities to
support clubs and coaches in their development.
- Work with Carlisle Leisure Ltd to
support sports provision in there leisure centres based within
Allerdale
- Provide a support and enabling role for club and
community group development
- Act as a consultee for the Authority in relation
to the National Lottery Sports Fund
In order to deliver the key performance targets the Council has
advanced its enabling role by developing community links, networks
and systems in order to extend sport and recreation opportunities
throughout Allerdale.
To tell you briefly about how we got on last year
with some of our projects:
- We co-ordinated, suported and promoted
over 20 coach education courses in partnership with other
Local Authorities and National Governing Bodies with over 200
people attending and benefitting from the subsidised
rates that we offer on our courses.
- Allerdale came 3rd in the Cumbria Youth Games with a full turn
out in all the events
- Held 4 cycle events, put on a cycle leaders course and now
have cycles in Maryport, Workington and Silloth for groups to
use.
- Supported 1 club through the National Club Mark Process, with the
accreditation awarded.
- Co-ordinated a free summer holiday programme were over 700 young
people accessed sport and recreation activities in their local
parks and open spaces.