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Active England projects in the South West
Following the assessment of 130 applications, Big Lottery Fund and Sport England South West have made a preliminary allocation of £8.6m to 21 projects in the South West. All projects are scheduled to be completed by December 2005.
To find out more about each project, click on the relevant title from this list:
Mobilise
A dynamic network of walking, cycling, jogging and horse riding trails around the Eden Project and connecting with the surrounding communities. The network of routes will provide increased opportunities for recreation and leisure activities but, as importantly, they will also encourage changes in everyday lifestyle habits by offering alternative transport opportunities
Knowle Health Park
Formal and informal activity opportunities through the provision of a multi-games wall, youth activity equipment, BMX track, youth shelter, multi use games agrea (MUGSA) and health and fitness area.
The aim is to establish the existing healthy living centre as the focus for the communities in the Filwood area of Bristol, which is in the top 3% of the most deprived wards in the country. In addition the project will provide outreach workers to work with some of the key inactive groups in the local community.
The nineteen projects which are going through to stage two are:
Gloucester Travel Smart Project
The aim of this project is to significantly increase physical activity amongst a population of about 10,000 people in the Barton, Tredworth and White City areas of Gloucester. This will be achieved in 2 ways: promoting walking and cycling for local journeys and promoting participation in physical activities at local multi-use sports hubs, such as the GL1 leisure centre and Plock Court.
Carn Brea Leisure Centre Trust
This is a mixed capital and revenue project which would transform an existing building next to Carn Brea Leisure Centre into a resource centre for local clubs as well as appointing a fulltime co-ordinator.This worker would help local clubs with a number of their tasks including, generating increased participation, the use of technology to manage information and develop better marketing techniques to target groups
Ability Sports Association
The recruitment of a full-time community disability development worker, for three years, to set up a disability multi-sports club at the leisure centre and other sites.
Mid Devon District Council
The aim of the bid is to set up a network of community activators with a supporting development fund.
The activators will work to remove the barriers to participation, with a particular focus on under- represented groups - namely those accessing mental health services, over fifties, vulnerable young people, overweight and obese, and those on low incomes.
The activators will work on a range of initiatives with a large number of partner organisations - collectively called the 5 x 30 Rural Network. They will create at least 45 new opportunities for physical activity each year by turning rural community venues into multi-sports hubs, training local people to sustain a long-term programme of activities; and providing access to existing activities that are currently not used.
Mevagissey Playing Field Foundation
This capital project is a joint bid from two local charities and includes a multi purpose sports hall, conference rooms and changing facilities. In addition to accommodating sports clubs the new multi-sports hub will offer a range of services including training rooms (including IT), internet access, adult and junior vocational courses, library, crèche, youth work and social area, advice and healthy living sessions, and a dentist/hygienist
The College of St Mark and St John
A revenue project to appoint a community sport development worker who will create a community sports club (Team Plymouth) and also develop a multi-skill approach to coaching based on the Bayli concept of Fundamentals for Children which will be adopted through clubs and schools across the city.
Sports West
The project will create up to three sustainable multi-sport hub-clubs located at three specialist sports colleges in Bristol. Each hub-club will link with a wide range of satellite centres, including local primary and secondary schools, that could develop into mini-hubs. The funding (three years) will provide for coach education and training supplied by the county partnership, data collation, a development fund, and staffing - three hub-site managers, three sport-specific coaches, in addition to community sport coach scheme bid, and three administrators.
Crewkerne Town Council
Crewkerne Leisure Management Ltd is a not-for profit charitable trust that manages an existing pool on behalf of the town council. The capital project will extend the existing pool to house an active lifestyle centre with facilities for a GP surgery. Revenue funding will provide for a co-ordinator to provide the conduit between the health sector and sports and activities.
Forest Enterprise
This is a capital and revenue bid covering a number of forest sites across the south west peninsula. It will develop a new multi-activity forest environment which will lead to a significant and measured increase in sports and physical activity, and act as a demonstration project for other forests. The project will encompass
Kings Park Skateboard, Bournemouth
This project is part of the creation of a multi-activity sports park for Bournemouth.
This application focuses on the desire to link an informal skate park with the existing athletics facility. The shared area would provide catering and a social space. The KPSK8 project will be of regional significance and help to engage with the youth in and around Bournemouth. Kings Park is adjacent to the Boscombe ward, which is a key area of deprivation.
The revenue element of this project is to fund a development worker for the sports park to co-ordinate and develop the sports and active recreation activities. Community consultation has identified the need for such a facility and the opportunity to integrate this with a traditional sporting facility will be an innovative use of space and human capacity. The shared catering and social space also offers the opportunity for improved youth and social work with some of the young people who may be on at risk lists.
South Somerset District Council
N.Cornwall District Council - Coastal and Rural Extreme Sport (Crest)
CREST is a revenue project to extend opportunities in extreme sports including wheeled sports, surfing, surf lifesaving and land-based outdoor adventure, particularly by young people. This three year programme includes the creation of a coastal recreation officer post to co-ordinate a programme of activities encompassing introductory coaching, free sessions, local competitions and pathways to performance. He or she will work with schools and local providers.
The project aims to make a greater impact on healthy lifestyles by capitalising on the popularity of these non-traditional sports. The Crest project is divided into four programmes - Crest Skate, Crest Surf, Crest Surf Lifesaving and Crest Land Adventure.
Plymouth City Council - Brickfields
The Brickfields site is a prominent site in one of the most deprived areas of Plymouth currently offering a number of outdoor sports facilities. As well as being the home of Plymouth Albion Rugby Club, it has the only athletics track in the city, three natural turf pitches, a floodlit synthetic turf pitch, a small clubhouse rented to Plymouth athletics club and a pavilion owned by the rugby club.
This bid is a mixed capital and revenue project which aims to enhance the range of sporting facilities on the Brickfields site by providing an indoor activity/sports centre, outdoor sports changing and toilet facilities, and the purchase of five acres of remaining land from the MoD.
The project will create a large sporting hub site and a multi-activity environment helping to meet the identified health and facility needs of the neighbourhood regeneration area around Devonport by working in close partnership with the Devonport Regeneration Company, the Plymouth PCT and many other partner organisations. The use of smart card technology will be a key component of the project in targeting residents and evaluating the impact of a wide range of initiatives which will be offered.
St Edmund's School
The project involves the creation of a multi-sport hub site in the Salisbury Community. This will cover four schools on the Laverstock Campus (St Edmunds, Wyvern, St Josephs, and Laverstock St Andrews Primary school). The project is made up of three separate elements, the revenue elements of the project lasting for four years
Somerset Physical Activity Group (SPAG)
This project aims to develop a series of initiatives to address weight management in various sectors of the community, whilst researching the most effective way of working with these groups - primary schools, secondary schools, adults out of education. This will comprise a combination of dietary advice, education, and recommendation of individuals to various activity sessions. The funding will enable a Health Works Coordinator to be recruited, and will finance workshops and research.
North Cornwall D/C - Walk to Work
The project aims to address barriers that stop people getting active, by developing trails that are free for all, and which don't require private transport to gain access.
Innovative aspects of the project include
The project aims to target traditionally under-represented groups, in particular students from disadvantaged households (to walk or cycle to school) and unemployed people who may be encouraged to apply for jobs at industrial locations to the west of the town.
University of Plymouth
The appointment of development officers with revenue support to enable people on low incomes to access water sports at reduced charge.
Their role will be to engage the community in water sports activity to increase participation, to support and provide education, training and employment opportunities, and co-ordinate a watersports strategy in order that Plymouth becomes renowned as a place for watersports.
Physical Activity Development Alliance
PADAL is a partnership lead by Swindon Primary Care Trust and Swindon Borough Council. This outreach programme will take place mainly across Swindon, Shrivenham, and some of North Wiltshire, at a variety of locations including workplaces, leisure centres, parks, schools, The Great Western Community Forest, and community centres. The capital part of the project will provide for a skateboarding area at the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon.
King George V Playing Fields Trust
Capital and revenue bid to create a multi-activity centre to serve an isolated rural area of Dartmoor National Park.
The capital element is to demolish an old pavilion and construct a multi-activity centre comprising multi-purpose hall, climbing wall, fitness area, dedicated youth room, social area, and associated ancillary facilities. The fitness area will be rented to a private operator from the town who will provide a full reception service and make the project sustainable. The revenue element is to employ a part-time outreach worker for 10 hours a week. They will increase volunteers, develop clubs and user groups, organise outreach activities. It will also fund monitoring and evaluation.
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