Closing the Gap - Sport Across Staffordshire
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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