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Derbyshire Sports Leadership Academy. And Extending Activities. Sarah Jones – Derbyshire Sport. Increase the number of 5-16 yrs olds participating in high quality club environments
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Derbyshire SportsLeadership Academy.AndExtending Activities Sarah Jones – Derbyshire Sport.
Increase the number of 5-16 yrs olds participating in high quality club environments • Increase the number of young people between 14-19 from SSPs actively involved in sports leadership and volunteering
The Leadership Academy • County wide academy • Entry requirement 10 hours volunteering hours completed • Application through the SSP – eligible from 16 yrs • Young volunteer issued with own website log in code to access their own profile page on the Derbyshire Sport website • Incentives provided for ‘Milestone’ volunteering hours • Membership services provided to all Academy members • Greater recognition and more opportunities
Created to enhance the current SiS program by improving tracking of students and improving opportunities, support, and guidance. • Provide incentives for achieving volunteering hours. • ‘Club representative training’ funding allocated to train key individuals at clubs how to make the placements go smoothly and be successful for everyone • Small grants available for clubs that have placements • NGB bolt on courses to be held after conferences on a local needs led basis
The Leadership Academy website can: • motivate and incentivise the young leaders • make it easier for the young person to record their volunteer hours • access more information about courses • access more information about volunteering opportunities • make it easier for SSPs to track the volunteering hours of leaders • Simplifies the reward process • Search for coaching courses in your area and county wide (bolt on, level 1 and 2) • Search for volunteering opportunities at events such as Race for Life, Derby 10k. • Derbyshire Leadership Academy members seen around the county as the best young leaders in sport
What is Extending Activities? • Part of the “5 hour offer”: One of the work strands emerging from the additional £100m announced in July 2007 • Delivered through a CSP led plan, with the involvement and ownership of local delivery organisations: SSPs, LAs, CSNs and other partners • The Extending Activities plan provides the opportunity for CSPs to join up different programmes and funding streams into one cohesive plan • Opportunities for the “semi sporty” population – estimated to be 50% of young people – currently doing 2-3 hours per week • Term time programmes, delivered out of school hours and in club and community settings • Focus on high quality, attractive provision
Extending Activities Targets • National target by 2011:- • 900,000 young people aged 5-19 take up an additional 2 hours • Focus on the 11 to 19 age range • Derbyshire Targets • Year 1 – 7,410 • Year 2 – 7,410 • Year 3 – 7,410
Derbyshire Extending Activities process so far… • Derbyshire Identified as a trailblazer • Extending Activities County/City steering group created • Series of local planning meetings held with as many key partners as time would allow. LA’s, Youth Service, SSPs, NGBs, CSP • Local meetings lead by PDMs • Local Extending Activities Plan established through these meetings • Local plans submitted to Derbyshire Sport • Derbyshire Sport submit the plans for April 08 – Aug 08 delivery to Sport England – Feb 29th 08 • Planning process for Sept 08- March 09 currently underway.
Applications for funding • Process created to allow Organisations to apply for funding to deliver EA from Sept 08 – March 09 • Deadline for applications June 11 2008 • Applications can be for anyone able to provide an offer for 2 or more districts. Individual district offers can be submitted directly to the local planning group. • CSP to distribute ‘booklet’ of offers to the local planning groups • Local group decides what projects are deliverable in the area.
Planning for extending activities delivery (April 09 – 10) will commence in September 2008 • Application processes and deadlines will be available in September 2008 • sarah.jones@derbyshire.gov.uk