Transcript Closing the Gap - Sport Across Staffordshire

NEW Sport & Physical
Activity Strategy
2008-2016
Michelle Adams
Sport & Leisure Services Manager
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Strategy Objectives & Targets
 Improve sport & physical activity levels of people in Stoke-on-Trent –
FTAP Targets
 Makes clear the role that sport & physical activity can play in the wider agendas
 Makes clear the scope of ‘sport & physical activity’ – Not just ‘traditional sport’
 Sets out overall direction & priorities for the next period 2008-2010 with a few long
term priorities until 2016
 Targets: LAA, Sport England, CPA
 Fulfils PPG17 requirements for local assessment of sports facilities
 A strategy for all partners & the community; it is not a strategy for the City Council
 Strategic justification to unlock external investment
Two Phase Approach
Phase 1: Vision to 2016
 Completed in December 2007
 Based on:
Extensive audit of sports facilities & greenspaces
Consultation with stakeholders, politicians, sports clubs, focus groups
& households
 Provides headlines for the supply and demand of sports facilities &
greenspaces with some attention to sports/physical activity programmes &
sports development priorities
 Assessment of key City data/strategies and national/regional sport & physical
activity strategic priorities
 Defines emerging priorities
Priorities to 2016
People:
 Working with partners to maximise opportunities & marketing – Olympics
 Set up outreach work in parks/greenspaces & co-ordinate programmes
across the range of providers
 Develop the opportunities for health & physical activity partners working
with key partners such as Stoke PCT
 Significantly increase levels of support for sports clubs to develop
participation levels, support performance & build resource (volunteers &
coaches)
Places:
 Maximise the opportunities to co-locate facilties & services – e.g. fitness
gyms with health
 Encourage & work with private and voluntary sector to enable facility
developments at neighbourhood level
 Undertake feasibility studies & confirm potential locations for new
facilities identified through regional/sub regional facility frameworks
 Ensure facilities & spaces are planned into regeneration
Priorities to 2012
People:
 Strengthen the emerging cross sector partnership of agencies to provide
a co-ordinated prioritised outreach programme aligned with sports
development work
 Support increased use of parks/open spaces through introduction of
Ranger Service/Recreation Leader role
 Strengthen sports clubs and activities across the City
 Improve marketing message to people about the needs to become more
active – ‘Sport’ as a tool to raise City profile
Places:
 Develop a hierarchy of sports/recreation facility provision for the City
 Seek to develop a range of sports facilities in partnership with BSF &
further & higher education sector
 Identify sports with particular attraction to those least active
 Plan facilities – Inner Urban Area Action Plan etc
Next Steps – 2008
Phase 2 work
 Detailed development of high level issues & strategic priorities enabling
translation into local level area action plans
 Extend facilities considered through to neighbourhood level & include
playing pitches
 Expand on phase 1 facilities audit
 Extend consultation – additional stakeholders, focus groups & schools
 Stoke Sports Summit consultation
 Build on work carried out with planning teams and relevant bodies to
establish realistic and achievable standards of provision
 Completion of detailed Sport England facilities planning model
assessments for pools and sports halls
 Completed Sport & Physical Activity Strategy in September 2008