Sport England West Midlands
All the latest news about Sport England’s work in the West Midlands plus our media team's contact details so you can find out more.
Investment strategy
Sport England Strategy 2008 -2011
Active People
Staff news
Job vacancies
News from county sports partnerships
Press releases
Media team
BBC Midlands Sports Awards 2008 - 'Power of Sport Award 2008'
Sport England in the West Midlands has for the second year running sponsored and delivered the 'BBC Power of Sport Award'; ensuring that community sports projects receive the attention and accolades they so rightly deserve.
The 6 county sports partnerships in the region each nominated a project to go forward through a selection process supported by their partners. The six projects in contention for the 2008 award are:
Active Meadowlands (Coventry) - nominated by Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire Sport
Birmingham Schools Rowing Project - nominated by Birmingham Sport and Physical Activity Partnership
Sport in the Hood (East Staffordshire) - nominated by Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Tennis: Stronger Mind and Body – Bishop’s Castle LTC (Shropshire) - nominated by Energize Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin
Wolverhampton Moving the Goalposts Satellite Sports Project - nominated by the Black Country Sports Partnership
Worcestershire Playground to Podium Project - nominated by the Sports Partnership Herefordshire & Worcestershire
The awards evening will take place on Sunday, 7 December and we will bring you news of all the winners, especially the winner of the 'Power of Sport Award 2008'.
Sport England strategy
Launched in June 2008, this 3-year strategy outlines how SE will develop community sport in England with the aims to: grow, sustain and excel.
Sport Engand Strategy 2008-2011 (pdf 13MB).
SMS in the West Midlands
Sport England has developed nineteen sporting segments to help us understand the nations’ attitudes and motivations – why they play sport and why they don’t. We have produced maps for the nineteen segments for each of our six CSP area, all of our local authority areas and for the region as a whole.
Please view this information
Newsletters from partners and projects
Closing the Gap - Spring Newsletter 2008 (Funded project in Stoke-on-Trent) (3.7 MB)
Our researchers are on the phone again!
People in the West Midlands will again we asked about their levels of sporting activity as the second phase of Sport England's Active People Survey gets underway across the whole of England this month. The original survey, undertaken from October 2006 for 12 months, has now been analysed further against consumer trends data and Sport England has released some excellent market segmentation profiles that will help partners to market sport in their area.
Active People 2 press release
View the market segmentation information
Would you like to register as a user of the Active People Diagnostic Tool?
If you would then please visit the registration site
Visit the 'Active People' website for more information
For all the latest news on awards made from the National Lottery through Sport England's Community Investment Fund plesae go to the 'Funding News' page
County sports partnerships
The region now has the infrastructures in place at sub regional level, through these new strategic partnerships, to drive forward the key outcomes of increasing sports participation, developing community sport and widening access for under represented groups. It will be a challenging time for all concerned and we wish all the partnerships every success for the future.
The six partnerships are:
Birmingham Sport and Physical Activity Partnership – Mike Dickenson, Partnership Director
Visit their website to find out more
Black Country Sports Partnership – Simon Hall, Partnership Director
Visit their website to find out more
Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire Sport (previously known as Greater Warwickshire Sport Partnership) – Rob Wallis, Partnership Director
Visit their website to find out more
Sports Partnership Herefordshire & Worcestershire – Stephen Brewster, Partnership Director
Visit their website to find out more
Energize Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin – Chris Child, Partnership Manager
Visit their website to find out more
Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent – Mark Thornewill, Partnership Director
Visit their website to find out more
For more information on the role of county sports partnerships
News from county sports partnerships
View their news pages as follows:
Birmingham Sport & Physical Activity Partnership - sports news on the Birmingham sports development site
Black Country Sport
CSWSport website
Energize Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin
Sports Partnertship Herefordshire & Worcestershire
Sport Across Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent
Sport England - some useful websites
In our endeavours to improve access to information and communicate with key partners in distinct areas of work Sport England has created some new websites and some specialist pages on the main website. Please view details of these on our resources page
Staff latest news
No recent staff changes
Job vacancies around the region
Sportworks
Training Solutions Executives (2) - One covering the South of England, one covering the Midlands and North of England.
Closing date for these post is 9 December 2008
Job advert
Please visit Sport England's main job page to view jobs being advertised nationally
Media team
Contact a member of the Sport England media team for information and comment on the work of Sport England, sports funding or other sports and active recreation issues.
Email the team or call:
020 7273 1551 and ask to be put through to the media team in London
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