Building Schools for the Future (BSF) was launched by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in February 2003, with the aim of transforming education by rebuilding or renewing every secondary school in England. The programme is planned to span around 15 years, and will benefit over 3.3 million pupils in 3,500 schools.

In relation to P.E. & Sport there are a number of challenges within BSF:

• Advocacy within the partner agencies.  To ensure the key messages relating to the added value P.E. and sport can bring to the transformation agenda are heard and understood. There is a need to ensure that all partners within the Delivery System for sport are fully aware of the potential opportunities for sport that BSF can offer.
  
• High quality P.E. and sport.  P.E. & School Sport is high on the national agenda and it is important to ensure the value of P.E. & School Sport retains a high profile within the BSF education / school visioning process. This means challenging stakeholders to consider what teaching and learning, as well as community participation, could or might look like in the future and then inspiring facility development to achieve it.
  
• Strategic Planning and Design.  In addressing the above, there will be further challenges to address with respect to the strategic planning for community sports facilities, and the subsequent design specification to influence the design of school buildings and the outside areas to a high standard that meets clients needs both within and beyond the school day, together with consideration of ongoing facility management and operational development.  
  
• Joined up funding.  The investment in P.E. & School Sport has never been so good; yet many of the various capital and revenue programmes supporting the development of P.E. and sport do so in isolation. The BSF programme provides an opportunity to coordinate resources, ensuring that the strategic needs of local authorities are met and providing the whole community with access to physical activity and sports participation.

To help achieve the above, Sport England has put together a series of guidance notes and documents which can be downloaded by following the links below.  More information regarding BSF can be found at www.partnershipsforschools.org.uk and www.bsf-culture.co.uk

BSF: Guide to potential VAT issues of community use and solutions
BSF PE  Sport Aiming for Transformation
Designing for Sport on School Sites - This new publication acts as an overview of the key issues surrounding the design of sports facilities on school sites, particularly with regard to community use.


The Win WIn Scenario(Community Sport & Arts on Education sites)

The Win Win Scenario is intended for schools, colleges, local authority officers and a range of extended schools advisors and groups working on the roll out and legacy of programmes such as Building Schools for the Future (BSF).  It aims to highlight the benefits of community use and gives a comprehensive guide as to how to provide it successfully.  The document is not meant to be read from cover to cover, rather than as a reference toolkit from which just the relevant sections can be used.  The document has been divided into three main sections, covering a number of key areas.  You can download the section you wish to use by clicking on its title heading in the table below.