Active Surrey Sports Partnership

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Active Surrey SportsPartnership

• Paul Clark
• Chairman, Active Surrey Sports Partnership
  Management Group

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Sport in Surrey

• The context for the day
• i The Journey From Active Sports to Active
  Surrey
• ii Who is the Active Surrey Sports Partnership
• iii The Role of the Core Team
• iv Core Business
• v Aspirations for the future

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The Journey

• Existing partnership created to deliver a
  specific national programme Active Sports
• Change of Government Agenda Game Plan
• Regionalisation greater autonomy for Sport
  England Regional Sports Board
• National framework document
• Regional framework document Mission Possible
• National Governing Bodies of sport (32) given
  greater responsibility Whole Sport/One Stop
  Plans
• New Partnership model created .

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Sport Englands County Sport Partnership Model
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Sport Englands Single System For Sport

• RSBs/Regional offices
• Influence and advocacy generating resources
• Support, guidance and expertise
• Investing Lottery and Exchequer funding

• CSPs
• Partnership of county level decision-makers
• Pivotal in delivering 1 per annum increase in
  participation and wider social benefits
• Strategic co-ordination and planning
• Performance measurement
• Marketing and communications

• CSNs determination and delivery
• Grouping of local deliverers
• Identifying appropriate initiatives for that
  community
• Accountable for all investment
• Building capacity to increase participation
• NOT another layer of bureaucracy, but a hub for
  action

• Grassroots
• People delivering sporting opportunities locally
  to the local population
• Innovation is key right activities, delivered
  by the right people, in the right place to
  increase participation

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Active Surrey Sports Partnership

• 1.8m from 2005 to March 2009 to support
  improvement
• Regional Sports Board are providing just over
  786,000
• Expanding the staffing resource to increase
  capacity
• Integrating two organisations
• Communicating the new partnership concept to
  existing and new partners gaining commitment to
  the ethos
• Appropriate Management Structure

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Active Surrey Sports Partnership

• The Partnership Who?
• The Host
• Governance
• The Networks Education, Health, Europe
• Role of Core Team

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Active Surrey Sports Partnership

• Strategic
• Promote the bigger picture and facilitate the
  achievement of partner goals.
• Champion
• Collective voice of sport in Surrey, championing
  best practice, high standards and equality of
  opportunity.
• Leadership Advocacy
• Conduit between national, regional and local
  partners. Interpreting and providing advice on
  the benefits and implementation of plans and
  funding
• People Focused
• Ensure provision of opportunities are
  convenient, accessible and responsive to the
  needs of sporting and wider community.
• Collaboration
• Work in partnership with a range of
  organisations and agencies to achieve sustainable
  common goals, make best use of resources and
  maximise community benefit

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Core Business.developing sport

• The Partnership is recognised for
• its open and fairness (Equity)
• its child welfare policies and practices
• groundbreaking work with young volunteers

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Aspirations

• making Surrey a more active and successful
  sporting county
• Developing a sustainable sporting infrastructure
  by enabling and encouraging
• Better clubs - Better coaches
• Better volunteers - Better facilities
• Better competition - Better governing bodies
• Better organisations - Better player support
• Better sport in education - Better activities
• Better health - Better Communication
• Promoting sport as a tool to deliver positive
  solutions to cross-cutting agendas
• Increasing the flow of external resources to the
  Partnership

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A Fantastic Future for Sport in Surrey

• Working together we have already made a huge
  impact on the way sport has been provided locally
• That positive work must continue in order to
  seize the massive opportunities now available to
  sport and influence the way its organised
• You can make Surrey a more active and successful
  sporting county