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County Sports Partnerships

A County Sports Partnership (CSP) is a partnership of agencies committed to providing a high quality single system for people to benefit from sport. Action is based on local need - influencing the understanding, interpretation and deployment of national, regional and local policy. The 5 CSPs which cover the North West are:

Spo rt Cheshire
Cumbria Sport
Greater Sport - The Greater Manchester Sports Partnership
Lancashire Sport
Merseyside Sport

	Cheshire & Warrington Sports Partnership The Cheshire & Warrington Sports Partnership embraces a wide range of organisations providing a range of services and, with the appropriate structures in place, will continue working to create a single infrastructure for sport and physical activity which will be of added value and benefit to the residents of Cheshire and Warrington. Vision: "To improve the health and well being of the residents of Cheshire & Warrington by encouraging more people to take up and continue sport and physical activity on a regular basis." Sport Cheshire has a strategic overview of sporting activity in the county and helps to link the Cheshire and Warrington Sports Partnership into regional and national networks (see The Cheshire & Warrington Sports Partnership Strategy 2005-09: ‘Forging the Future)’. The Sport Cheshire team facilitates meetings between partners and co-ordinates specific areas of activity including coach, volunteer, sport specific and club development and works with minority and excluded groups. It also has a key advocacy role for sport across the county. Contact Details Sport Cheshire Moss Farm Cottages Moss Lane Winnington Northwich Cheshire CW8 4BG Tel: 01606 871812 Fax: 01606 76800 E-mail: support@sportcheshire.org Link to website
	Cumbria Sport The Cumbria Sport Partnership includes, Cumbria County Council, Sport England, the 6 District Councils of Cumbria, National Governing Bodies of Sport, sportscoach UK plus the main sports equity organisations of EFDS (English Federation for Disability Sport), WSF (Womens Sports Foundation) and Sporting Equals (Racial Equality). The partnership is dedicated to improving the opportunities for local people in Cumbria to get the most from their chosen sport. Cumbria Sports Mission is to: ‘Create an Active, Healthy and Successful Cumbria …through Sport and Physical Activity’ Contact Details Cumbria Sport 5 Portland Square Carlisle Cumbria CA1 1PU Fax: 01228 606896 Link to website
	Greater Sport - The Greater Manchester Sports Partnership The Greater Manchester Sports Partnership has developed as a network of organisations: With a shared interest in increasing the numbers of young people in Greater Manchester who benefit from being involved in sport and physical activity With a shared interest in developing the skills, capacity and qualifications of the people who support sport and physical activity. By working together around these common interests, the Partners can collectively achieve more, whilst individually realising some of their own organisational goals. The Partnership is committed to work towards the creation of a single system for sport in Greater Manchester, extending the impact to all people living in the county. GreaterSport is the central team whose dedicated role is to promote the health of this network by coordinating and facilitating joint working. In April 2005, GreaterSport produced a Strategy document to take its work forward with purpose and drive into the next 5 years - 'New Generation - Strategy for the Greater Manchester Sports Partnership 2005 - 2009'. Contact details GreaterSport Belle Vue Athletics Centre Pink Bank Lane Manchester M12 5GL Tel: 0161 223 1002 Fax: 0161 220 7232 Email: office@greatersport.co.uk Link to website
	Lancashire Sport Lancashire Sport is committed to improving the opportunities available to its local Communities for Sport and Physical activity. Through the Single System for Sport, Lancashire Sport is focusing its energies on establishing the 14, area based Sport and Physical Activity Alliances (SPAAs) as being the method to co-ordinate activity and investment to increase the capacity and quality of provision in partnership with Sport governing bodies, Education, Health, Local Government and the Voluntary sector. Lancashire Sport aims to lead these improvements through: good quality information and analysis which will drive decision making processes and investment, workforce improvements through partnership with the voluntary sports sector and training organisations, which will increase capacity and upskill those delivering services. The new Lancashire Sport Strategy launched in 2006 is called 'Changing Lives'. Contact details Lancashire Sport Myerscough College Bilsborrow Preston PR3 0RY 01995 642236 website under development as at August 2006
	Merseyside Sport Working to improve the quality of life for people within Merseyside through sport and physical activity, Merseyside Sports Partnership (MSP) is a network of agencies committed to establishing a fully inclusive structure. MSP will use sport and physical activity: to improve the physical and mental health, and well being, and to encourage a healthy lifestyle for people within Merseyside to promote lifelong learning and the development of skills to develop safer and stronger communities to widen access for all members of the community as a vehicle for regeneration to maximise opportunities for sporting success for all members of the community In January 2006 the Partnership launched its key strategic document, the 'Merseyside Strategy for Sport and Physical Activity 2006-2010'. Contact details Liverpool John Moores University - I M Marsh Campus Barkhill Road Aigburth Liverpool L17 6BD Email: admin@merseysidesport.com Tel: 0151 231 5239 Fax: 0151 231 5302 Link to website

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