Change 4 Sport is a plan for sport for the East Midlands. It is our response to the national government strategy for sport, Game Plan, and The Framework for Sport in England led by Sport England.

Our main aim is to make the East Midlands the most active and successful sporting region in England. In aiming to be the best, we want to be:

• Sustainable
• Equitable
• Empowering

Everything we do to develop sport should be based on these principles.The plan has a few simple messages for everyone who is involved in planning,organising, delivering or supporting sport in our region.

• Focus on the main outcomes and encourage the people closest to the action to decide the best way to achieve them
• Take responsibility for simplifying and improving the way sport is managed and delivered
• Help make sport capable of delivering more than it is currently able to do

It argues that to achieve our ambition to be the best we must:

• Invest in developing our people
• Improve the way sport is managed and
• Support and encourage new ideas in delivering local sport

If we do this, we will make progress towards achieving the plan’s eight outcomes for the East Midlands.

• A 4% increase in sports participation
• The most successful sporting region
• Reduced inequalities
• Improved health
• Stronger and safer communities
• Improved education and lifelong learning
• Strengthened local economy
• A better sports system

The outcomes are supported by a series of strategic aims. We have identified some actions to support these broad aims.

Of course none of this will make any difference if we do not take care to assess our performance. This is the final and most crucial message in this plan.

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