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BUCS Conference 2012 Inclusive Sport Funding workshop Welcome. Scene setting. BUCS Disability Sport Research Low levels of recreational participation Very low levels of club membership Lack of trained staff, dedicated personnel and communication scene as major issues
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Scene setting • BUCS Disability Sport Research • Low levels of recreational participation • Very low levels of club membership • Lack of trained staff, dedicated personnel and communication scene as major issues • BUCS Disability Sport Strategy focus on pathways in 7 sports in 2 phases • Archery, Athletics, Indoor Rowing, Swimming • Football, Netball, Wheelchair Basketball
Impact potential in Higher Education • First year UK domiciled students – data from HESA • Total students declaring a disability: 74,320 • Specific learning disability: 34,095 • Blind or visual impairment: 1,175 • Deaf or hearing impairment: 2,565 • Physical impairment or mobility issues: 2,825 • Mental health condition: 6,055 • Social communication / autistic spectrum: 1,515 • Long term illness or health condition: 8,460
Sport England ‘Inclusive Sport’ funding • Step change in funding for disability sport • Move away from traditional partners with more engagement of the wider disability sector • ‘Insight’ key – evidence of engaging disabled people and proof that projects deliver what the end user wants, not what the bidding organisation wants to deliver
Key themes within the funding • Innovation • New ways of delivering sport for and with disabled people • Scaleable • Projects that can have bigger impact on more disabled people in more places with more investment • Replicable • Existing projects that can be rolled out across more of the landscape with more investment
Your project ideas • What project ideas do you want to develop a bid for? • How can you evidence the ‘insight’ element? • Are they innovative, scalable and / or replicable in HE Sport? • What support do you need from BUCS?
In support • Materials to ‘sell’ sport to disability support services • Development of pilot programmes of models of social and intra-mural sport • Support resources to assist clubs in developing inclusive provision • Coach development programmes • Classification training and clinics • BUCS competitions and events • Involvement and engagement of disabled students throughout
People • To support local delivery, the recruitment and deployment of a small number of positions within individual HEI’s or clusters of HEI’s • At a national level, an additional BUCS staff member at co-ordinator level to support implementation
Have your say • What would make the biggest impact at your University or to your sport? • What’s missing from these ideas?