Active students T e project is also aiming to reach out to inactive
students by addressing the barriers that prevent them from participating.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE Boosting student participation will have a lasting impact because research shows that students who play sport at university are far more likely to continue participating when they leave education. It will also help tackle the issue of drop-off in sports participation that sees many young people giving up sport in their late teens and early twenties. T e principal aim of the University of Plymouth
project is to increase the amount of sports students participate in, working towards three sessions of 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise per week. Opportunities will also be created
off ering accessible and aff ordable activities, alongside coaching and support services for inactive students who wish to participate, learn, practice and develop in their chosen sport. Along with its partners, the university has fi nalised
some key aims for the project. T ese are to: Engage with the community to increase
participation and lifelong involvement; Generate student interest in sporting activities; Raise awareness of the health benefi ts gained from
physical activity by participating in sport; Increase the opportunities to participate in sport
and off er a wide variety of sport to the community; Create positive and strong community links to
ensure that neighbourhood community structures are continually supported; Link to partner colleges and faculties for expertise,
in particular volunteering and coaching; Provide professional advice and support; Increase the number of coaches and leaders to
accommodate more students participating; Create access to training packages for coaches,
leaders and volunteers; Strengthen the link between community clubs,
Plymouth City Council and the University of Plymouth; Develop an intramural programme across the city; To host a yearly sports fair, creating opportunities
for local clubs and facilities to advertise their services and have direct contact with future members and participants; Explore the needs of students and subsequently
embed sport and coaching activators into faculties; Provide taster sessions to accommodate student
needs; and Increase participation levels of students who may be participating just one or two days-a-week.
PROJECTED OUTCOMES T rough this project, the team at Plymouth hope that 3,000 students will become more active. Once the three years of funding is over, the project
will be expected to be sustainable and the Sport and Active Leisure team will be exploring ways of ensuring this.
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TRIBUTE Alan Barber
11 JUNE 1942 – 16 FEBRUARY 2011
Tributes have poured in following the death of one of Britain’s most eminent advocates for parks and green spaces. Alan Barber was Britain’s pre-eminent campaigner and advocate for public parks and a passionate believer in the positive effects of green spaces on society. His death from cancer, as reported in The Guardian, has denied society a strategic thinker and a believer in the value of research.
Journalist Ken Worpole, who knew Barber well, said: ‘He was fervent in his wish to see a national agency dedicated to public parks, and through his tenacity, signifi cant progress was made. ‘On one occasion a team of Home Offi ce civil servants gave
evidence to the government’s Urban Green Spaces taskforce, on which Alan was an advisor, setting out their vision of public space – ideally a domain in which children and young people were kept indoors. Alan sent them packing. He believed childhood to be a state of grace which found its natural home in well-managed parks, streets and public spaces.’
CHILDHOOD’S NATURAL HOME... SHOULD BE IN PARKS, STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Barber’s career took him from a gardening apprenticeship in
Merseyside, from where he went on to study horticulture at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew. He then worked for Bristol City Council’s parks department before pursuing a career as an independent consultant. By the early 1990s Barber was a senior fi gure at the Institute of
Leisure and Amenity Management, forerunner to ISPAL. From the 1990s onwards Barber advised and lobbied government on all matters pertaining to parks and green spaces. During this period, the GMB union was campaigning against the loss of horticultural skills, the Pesticides Trust set up the Green Flag award, recognising the best green spaces in the UK, and the national network Green Space was created to promote green areas. Barber was involved in all of these initiatives. He was made a commissioner for the 2003 Commission for
Architecture and the Built Environment and became a Simon Research Fellow at Manchester University. He received an honorary doctorate from Writtle College, in Essex, and was appointed OBE in 2009. Barber has a rose garden in Ashton Court Park, Bristol, dedicated to him. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and fi ve grandchildren.
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