East NGB Forum

NGB Forum - Sept 16th 2008

2008-09-17T10:17:00.015+01:00

Sport England Update by Mark Ormerod

CSP Core Offer by Laurie Hull

Skills Active Core Offer by Stuart Wilson

PESSYP Update by Louise Gear and Ellen Falkner

FESCO List

BSF Update from Sport England + appendix

Extra resources around comparative sports data:

Frequency of participation - 'number of days' participation, by sport. Download.
Profile of frequency of participation - of those who participate in a sport, the profile of participation by frequency (number of days) Download
Growth required Download

Relaying Sport in the East Three- 12 -13 May 2008

2008-05-15T15:29:00.022+01:00

Relaying Sport in the East 3 was a two-day conference held for National Governing Bodies of Sport, County Sports Partenrships and School Sport Partnerships in the region, at Lakeside Lodge Golf Centre, Pidley, Cambridgeshire on 12th and 13th May 2008.

DAY ONE : Monday 12th May

Welcome and outline of the day - Russell Doel, Chair of Regional NGB Forum

Sport England Update - Mark Ormerod, Sport England
Extending Activity - theory into practice - Laurie Hull, Active Norfolk
Extending Activity - CSP Update – how it is working in their county, results of consultation, and who NGBs need to contact - CSP extending activity leads
Extending Activity Child Protection Checklist
Hot Topic Networking Activity: Extending Activity (briefing); Local Area Agreements; plus 2 other topics to be agreed on day

DAY TWO: Tuesday 13th May 2008

Welcome and outline of the day - Ben Jones, Chair of Regional Club Coach Group

UK Coaching Framework - Sports coach UK

Where are we now? - activity

Delegate list

NGB Forum Feb 19th 2008

2008-03-19T09:34:00.015Z

Update from Sport England on sporting landscape
Mark Ormerod Sport England

Regional Club Development Strategy
Club mapping exercise
Club research
Club Guidance Resource

Ellen Falkner & Spencer Harris Sport England

5 hour offer and FESCOs
Ellen Falkner, Sport England & Louise Gear, YST

Sports Coach UK session
- Brief update on RCC
- Educating our partners on the UKCF [consultation, update presentation]
sports coach UK

Playground to Podium Update
Simon Macqueen, Sport England & Mark Healy, EFDS

Feedback from December Two Day Event
Russell Doel, Chair of Regional NGB Forum

The Regional Picture
Tim Fitches, Badminton England

2012 Update
Lynsey Palframan, British Gymnastics

Club Strategy
Russell Doel, Chair of Regional NGB Forum

Communications – business networking tools
Simon Badman, Sport England

Club and Coach Update
Simon Macqueen, Sport England

Planning for April 2 Day Event
Russell Doel, Chair of Regional NGB Forum

Relaying Sport in the East Two - 4 - 5 Dec 2007

2007-12-07T10:57:00.000Z

Relaying Sport in the East 2 was a two-day conference held for National Governing Bodies of Sport in the region, at Lakeside Lodge Golf Centre, Pidley, Cambridgeshire on 4-5 Dec 2007

DAY ONE – Tuesday 4th Dec 2007

Update from Sport England on sporting landscape including the Comprehensive Spending Review - Mark Ormerod, Sport England

Update on priorities from each County Sports Partnership
Herts Sport Partnership

Team Beds & Luton

Workforce Development Planning - Jane Hannah, Sport England and Stuart Wilson, Skills Active

Policy Updates:
Club Development - Ellen Falkner, Sport England & Melissa Bennett, Team Beds & Luton

Coaching - Steve Bentall, sports coach UK:
UK Coaching Framework
Increasing Participation in Sport:The Role of the Coach

Regional Coaching Working Group

Volunteering - Jane Hannah, Sport England & Emily St John, England Netball

London 2012 Legacy Trust - Liz Hughes, Creative Programmer East of England, London 2012

Workforce Development – focus on increasing and sustaining participation including the Get Back Into campaign - Jane Hannah, Sport England, Stuart Wilson, Skills Active & Emily St John, England Netball

DAY TWO – Wednesday 5th Dec 2007

Sportsaid - Chris Dyer, Sportsaid
Presentation 1
Presentation 2

Regional Club Coach Group Meeting - CSPs & Regional leads

Regional NGB Group Meeting - NGBs

Policy Updates:
5 hour Offer - Ellen Falkner, Sport England & Chris Caws, YST

Playground to Podium - Simon Macqueen, Sport England

Building Schools for the Future - Adam Rigarlsford, Sport England

Creating Active Places (Regional Facilities Strategy) and Investment Strategy - Adam Rigarlsford, Sport England

Market Segmentation - Spencer Harris, Sport England

Delegates List

Cold Norton Primary School wins first British Cycling Go-Ride Inter-Schools competition

2007-11-02T16:13:00.000Z

Cold Norton Primary School hits the big time by winning the first inter-schools competition in cycle sport in the Eastern Region. With stiff competition from Burnham, Purleigh, St Mary’s, and Southminster primary schools, it was a huge team effort which enabled the school to lift the Go-Ride Inter-Schools trophy.

The Go-Ride Inter-Schools competition was the first in Essex and contested by schools from the William de Ferrers Schools Sport Partnership. The competition was co-ordinated by Essex County Council’s Competition Manager, Alison Gurner, working with British Cycling, the national governing body for cycle sport. Maldon District Council provided sponsorship for the trophy, which clearly became a sought after award for the teams. They were all desperate to win the prize for their school!

The teams had been preparing rigorously prior to the competition by taking part in 4 block cycle sport session at their schools, which were delivered by Go-Ride coach, Alison Lilley. The children learnt basic cycling skills and practiced key competition elements to enable them to take part in the Inter-Schools competition and have fun whilst competing.

St Peter’s Secondary School in Burnham, provided an ideal facility to stage a schools competition. The event started off with a 2 lap scratch race for the girls. The riders competed in heats to see if they could qualify for the final and gain valuable points for their team. Pupils from Purleigh Primary were the early pace setters and took the heat wins. The final saw a closely fought competition, with Purleigh Primary taking 1st place in the scratch race final, but Cold Norton had top finishers which stole the points from the other teams.

Meanwhile, the boys where competing in the skills team tag relay. This event was a test of the boys bike handling skills against the clock and required them to negotiate an obstacle course including a slalom course and limbo pole without incurring any time penalties. The fastest 2 teams would qualify for the ride off in the final. Burnham were showing the other teams their sheer pace and skill as they set the fastest time of 3mins 15 seconds in the heats with no penalty points. Southminster pipped the other teams to gain the second place and a spot in the final.

The final team tag relay race started very closely and there wasn’t much to split the two teams. Southminster put Burnham under real pressure as they stepped up the pace halfway through. Southminster then hit some of the skill elements, incurring time penalties. Burnham remained consistent and managed to complete the course in 2mins 39 seconds, faster than their first run, resulting in a win in the event.

The children then switched around with the girls competing in the skills tag relay and the boys in the 2 lap scratch race. The girls team tag relay event was won by Southminster and the boys 2 lap scratch was won by Cold Norton.

As the final points were allocated Cold Norton came out on top with 660 points, Purleigh was second 530 points, 460 points secured third for Southminster, St Mary’s gained 445 points for fourth, and Burnham was fifth with 275. However, all the young people put on a fantastic display of speed and skill.

Go-Ride Mountain Biking at Danbury is an instant success

2007-10-31T09:43:00.000Z

Half-term proved to be a busy time within the Eastern Region with a Go-Ride Mountain bike activity at Danbury Outdoors Centre in Essex. Over 50 new participants to cycle sport engaged in the activity, which was delivered by Alison Lilley, Eastern Go-Ride coach.

Over the past few months the region has seen a steady growth of young people taking up the opportunity to experience British Cycling coached activities. The holiday programme at Danbury is just one part of a seamless programme running in the county of Essex.

After a long and gruelling week, Alison Lilley said “it’s been a really positive half-term week. I have noticed that a lot of individuals at our holiday activity programmes are the same young people that I’ve coached on our PESSCL schools programme. It’s really encouraging, what we are doing in schools is having a major impact and young people are coming on our holiday programmes for some more coached activities”.

Danbury provided an ideal facility where the children could progress their basic cycling techniques, learnt in the playground, in a more discipline specific arena.

The holiday activity at Danbury has not just been solely about running a coaching session for children, but working in partnership with Chelmsford Borough Council. This partnership has included promoting the activity within the various School Sports Partnerships and leisure centres in and around the borough. The sports development unit at the council not only supported the Go-Ride activity, but a whole week of cycling in Chelmsford, which included working with the local Go-Ride club, Chelmer Cycling Club.

Claire Cornwell from Chelmsford Borough Councils, Sports Development Unit said “this project had been very successful for us this week and we are really keen to repeat the programme next year. Our Cyclemania week was generously sponsored by Cycles UK, which enabled us to have promotional leaflets distributed across the borough and beyond”.

Cycling in the county is gaining momentum with the excitement of the Olympic mountain bike event in 2012 being staged at Weald Park. The county is gearing up and the Essex-based cycling clubs are getting ready for the influx of new participants coming into cycle sport on the back of the Olympic wave.

British Cycling’s Eastern Region programme moves on to an inter-schools competition this week, and we will bring you a full report on what’s proving to be a well dynamic programme to further engage schools in the sport.

Issued by Nigel Hampton

For further information contact Nigel Hampton (British Cycling, Eastern Region Manager 079940 738319 – email nigelhampton@britishcycling.org.uk

British Cycling is the National Governing Body for Cycle Sport

Go-Ride is a programme for young people to engage in to cycle sport

NGB Forum meeting - Pidley 27th Sept

2007-10-10T17:33:00.000+01:00

Notes from meeting on 27th September 2007 at the Lakeside Lodge, Pidley, Cambridgeshire.

1. Attendance
Present –
Sports : Kevin Wray (swimming), Brendan Osborne (volleyball), Nigel Hampton (cycling), Lynsey Palframan (nee Mealham) (gymnastics), Russell Doel (cricket), Emily St John (netball), Tim Fitches (badminton), Simon Dowdy (Rowing), Darren Lawrence (Football), Neil Deans (Athletics), Neil Twitchett (Tennis), Dave Coldwell (Lacrosse), Rob Drinkwater (Rugby Union), Andy Hastings (Squash), John Hornby (Indoor Bowls), Hayley Scott (Baseball/Softball), Stuart Briggs (Canoeing), Charlie Farrow (Hockey), Ceri Winter (Triathlon), Greg Yarnall (Table Tennis)
CSPs : Angela Littlewood (Essex)
Sport England : Simon MacQueen, Kirsty Clarke, Simon Badman
scUK : Karen Woodrow

Apologies –
Karen French (Judo), Caro Wild (Rugby League), Kelly Hanwell (Golf), Emma Forward (Dance), Dennis Bell (Equestrian), Helen Errington (Orienteering)

2. Introduction
As with previous meetings, the morning session would be NGB specific issues, with the integration of the CSP (club & coach) officers during the afternoon session.
All presentations would be put on http://eastngbforum.blogspot.com/

3. Physical Activity – Dr Roz Coombes
Dr Roz Coombes introduced herself to the NGB Forum as the new Regional Physical Activity Co-ordinator., detailing her background and also the scope of her work. This is centred around increasing participation, and implementing `Active East`, the East framework for Physical Activity. Roz is keen to understand NGBs current involvement with PCTs and the Health agenda over specific projects. NGBs are encouraged to contact Roz on : roz.coombs@dh.gsi.gov.uk , or 01223 372515, or 07825 733613
Presentation

4. Regional and County Facility Strategies – Phil Raiswell / Angela Littlewood (angela.littlewood@sportessex.org.uk)
Phil Raiswell from Sport England highlighted the main findings and recommendations from the Regional Facility Plan, and then detailed that work was currently occurring on County Strategies. There were some concerns from the audience over :
The scope of the work of Strategic Leisure (Plan co-ordinators) does not necessarily reflect the needs of the NGBs over facilities – i.e. the `non` inclusion of grass facilities.
Some NGBs have not been consulted on local plans? NGBs are encouraged to feed their needs into the respective CSPs. (NB. Essex final consultation is 9th November)
NGBs must be able to clearly identify needs of their sport to the CSP in order to influence the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) agenda.
County & Regional Facility Plans would steer investment but would not be the complete determining factor.
Presentation

5. Promoting Sport Toolkit – Simon Badman (simon.badman@sportengland.org)
Simon Badman provided a short update for NGBs around emotional marketing replacing the use of unique selling points. The short, but entertaining, presentation highlighted examples of good and poor practice of emotional marketing from business and sport.
NGBS were encouraged to think about how they currently market their courses and their sport in general?
Promoting Sport Toolkit (http://promotingsport.sportengland.org) was highlighted and NGBs signposted to the website.
There was a commitment to a session with greater depth to be held at a later NGB Forum
Presentation

6. 2012 update – Kevin Wray (Kevin.wray@swimming.org)
Kevin provided an update around his representation, on behalf of East NGBs, on the 2012 Sports theme group. The key message to drive home is to make sure that Olympics and all that comes from it isn`t over in 5 years time. Questions were asked :
What are NGBs doing to gear up for 2012, especially linked to the 2009-13 planning system?
What do NGBs want from the Representative on the East 2012 Sports theme group? Lynsey Palframan will now be replacing Kevin on this group.
Do NGBs have any regional or county events scheduled for 24th August – 17th September 2008, which could link into the Olympic Torch Handover?
Presentation

7. Club & Coach funding – Simon MacQueen (simon.macqueen@sportengland.org)
Simon shared and discussed the reporting form attached to the Club and Coach fund for NGBs for the purposes of consistency and also to highlight the areas and depth of attention to those NGBs not involved in the programme. Points to note from this session included :
Funding would not be released until information from all 9 SE Regions was `signed off`
Job descriptions need to specifically around `Coaching`
No communication plan was needed but NGBs were expected to provide press releases and encourage communication around the programme.
If not already done so, NGBs were encouraged to tell CSPs where their C&C funding would impact within a County.

8. Youth Sport Trust update – Chris Caws (chris.caws@youthsporttrust.org)
Chris Caws provided an overview of the current headlines from the YST. This included :
The Five hour offer
Coaching – Grow your own
Competition and Competition Managers – 1 per 2 SSPs, in place by Sept 2008
YST supporting NGBs with data/research from PESSCL survey
Chris used an example of work with Lacrosse and the mapping of schools vs clubs, using YST to access the PDM network as an excellent example of making schools sport more effective. Other NGBs were asked to contact Chris if they felt that this information would be useful for them in terms of development planning?
Presentation

9. Regional Coaching Centre – Steve Bentall (sbentall@sportscoachuk.org) / Angela Littlewood (angela.littlewood@sportessex.org.uk)
Attendees were asked to consider a paper regarding the establishment of a Regional Coaching Centre/Network that was circulated previously to all attendees. Whilst questions still remained around the vision, functionality, staffing structure and operating costs of the `Network` all CSPs and NGBs were asked to collectively agree to support/pursue a collaborative submission for a `Network` based around the 6 CSPs in the East. Attendees were asked to feedback any comments to AL, RD or Jane Hannah by 5th October. No communication would mean agreement with the proposed submission.

10. Regional Club Development Strategy– Ellen Falkner (ellen.falkner@sportengland.org)
A draft Club Strategy had already been circulated for comment and a steering group (Kevin from swimming, and Emily from netball are the NGB Reps) had met once over the matter. Ellen thanked people for their feedback and highlighted some areas where changes/prioritisation was suggested.
All attendees were encouraged to feedback what they wanted to see from a Regional Club Development Strategy, and also their general comments on it as part of a `post-it` note exercise and ongoing to Ellen (ellen.falkner@sportengland.org).

11. Sporting Champions – Louise Calton & Jenny Copnell
Louise, and then Jenny (International Mountain Biker) provided details and an update of Sporting Champions in the East. Work had recently occurred to make sure that the right athletes were designated Sporting Champion status in the East, and that their role was much more than just a handshake and photograph opportunity. Visits are targeted to people up to the age of 25.
All attendees were encouraged to think of effective ways to use the Sporting Champions and also of ay other potential ones (must be Ex or current International Athletes).

12. 2009-2013 Planning and Investment – Simon MacQueen
Simon Macqueen provided a short update clarifying that the 09-13 work was still being developed and that further information would be available at Dec 4th-5th event.

13. AOB
NGBs were signposted to a paper circulated recently around the future funding from European Social Funding (ESF). As part of this, Jane Hannah from Sport England collected brief information from all NGBs present regarding how their Coach Education courses were organised and run, and what scope there was to expand and develop them to meet local need.
All attendees were reminded of the 2 day event at Lakeside Lodge, Pidley on the 4th and 5th December. The agenda was not yet finalised but would potentially focus around 2009-2013 planning and workforce development.
Attendees were signposted to http://eastngbforum.blogspot.com/ for the presentations from the day

Sir Trevor Heads to Harlow - Essex Skills Coach Launch

2007-10-02T14:49:00.000+01:00

Sir Trevor Brooking was in Harlow during September as 450 children helped launch the Essex FA Tesco Skills Programme at Hare Street Primary School.

Essex is one of twelve pilot projects across the country for the FA co-ordinated initiative which is funded by both Tesco and the National Sports Foundation and aims to give one million children aged 5-11 top-quality skills coaching by summer 2010.

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Relaying Sport in the East - 16 - 17 July 2007

2007-07-13T09:37:00.000+01:00

Relaying Sport in the East is a two-day conference being held for National Governing Bodies of Sport in the region, at Lakeside Lodge Golf Centre, Pidley, Cambridgeshire on 16 - 17 July 2007

DAY ONE – Monday 16th July 2007

Setting the scene - Chris Perks, Director, Sport England East

The Regional Landscape for Sport - Ken Edwards, England Volleyball, Chelmsford Community Sports Network

The Delivery System - Mark Ormerod, Head of Delivery, Sport England East

The role of the County Sports Partnerships and Community Sports Networks within the delivery system – a practical example - Keith Sutton, Active Norfolk
North Norfolk CSN Action Plan

The role of a National Governing Body within the delivery system – a practical example - Emily St John, England Netball

Keynote address - Stephen Castle, Chairman, East Regional Sports Board

Youth Sports Trust – role within the delivery system and regional staffing structure - Trevor Smith, Youth Sports Trust

The East Equality Team – Who we are and what we do - East Equality Team
Fitter Futures update
Naturally Active update
Sport and Crime Prevention update
Women's Sport Foundation and MENTER update

The Regional Plan for Community Sport – a consultation process - Spencer Harris, Sport England East

Summary and close - Simon Macqueen, Sport England East

DAY TWO – Tuesday 17th July 2007

Workforce Development – Delivering Year 1 and planning for Year 2 - Stuart Wilson, Skills Active, Jane Hannah, Sport England East

UK Framework for Coaching Update - Jo Jones, Sports Coach UK

Planning session – this sessions will allow time to plan and engage with different partners around key areas of work i.e. workforce development, club and coach, performance management framework etc)

The Regional Plan for Community Sport – feedback from delegates - Spencer Harris, Sport England East

Whole Sport Plans – Regional Investment 2009-2010 - Simon Macqueen, Sport England East

Summary - Simon Macqueen, Sport England East

Delegates

Everyday Swim Launches Online Newsletter

2007-07-06T14:54:00.000+01:00

The Amateur Swimming Association’s Everyday Swim programme has launched its first newsletter which will be available every month online and in hard copy. The newsletters first edition will be June 2007 and it will be produced on a monthly basis thereafter.

Everyday Swim is a pioneering national pilot to remove the barriers to swimming and get more people into the country’s pools for fun and fitness and as part of a healthy lifestyle. Spearheaded by the ASA, the project is funded nationally by Sport England and by local funding partners in each of the eight areas.

The first edition will be distributed with the Wavelength magazine and thereafter it will be available each month on www.everydayswim.org. All issues can also be downloaded from the link below.

For more information on Everyday Swim or to subscribe to the newsletter email everydayswim@swimming.org or call 0117 3302667.

East NGB Forum Blog

2007-03-19T15:24:00.000Z

Welcome to the NGB Forum Blog for the East.

This site will give all NGBs registered the chance to view papers, presentations and general updates that may be of relevance to your work without the endless bombardment of emails.

The site will also give you the chance to comment on certain areas of work such as Workforce Development, Club and Coach, Step into Sport, Community Sports Coaches to name but a few.

We will aim to trial the blog with the forth coming NGB Forum and hopefully allow you to benefit from this simple communications tool

I hope that you will benefit from this site and I look forward to meeting up soon with you all.

Regards

Simon Macqueen