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 2011/2012
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
- Create a pack of doorstep health walks
to help people reach the 150 minutes a week guidelines.
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.
- - 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.
Who are we?
Allerdale Sport Development Officer - Rebecca Stamper 01900
702711
Our Sports Development Unit sends a monthly update to clubs and
organisations with details of funding pots, up and coming coach
education courses, and any other information that clubs might find
useful from Club development evenings to recruiting young
volunteers. If you would like to receive the update please contact
Rebecca Stamper on the details above.
Other useful contacts and Sports Updates
If you would like to keep up to date on National and Local
sporting news you can sign up to a number of e zines. Read on for
more details!
UK Sport
You can sign up to the the UK sport newsletter for the latest
information and updates on how sports governance, our national
squads and job vacancies. Go to http://www.uksport.gov.uk and
click on the e news link at the bottom of the page.
Sport England
Sport England produce a regular newsletter with lots of good news
stories about community sport from all over the Country and latest
news and announcements, you can get it straight to your inbox if
you go to www.sportengland.org and click
on 'the latest from the pitch' on the right hand side. You can also
get all National Governing Bodies details from the Sport England
Site through the recognised sports page.
Active Cumbria has launched its new
Sportzine, full of information about the sporting goings on in
Cumbria from the Sports Awards to the Schoolympics. To Subscribe,
go to www.activecumbria.org and go to
the bottom of the page to Sportzine e-news.