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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
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:
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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
Extending Activities
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
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Questions ?