NEWS
Funding to create 2,000 jobs in sport
T
he government has announced
that it plans to create more than
2,000 jobs in the sports and
active leisure sectors.
Extra funding will be channeled into
the government’s £1bn Future Jobs Fund,
which will be delivered by the National
Skills Academy (NSA).
NSA will deliver the initiative in
partnership with the Youth Sport Trust,
a number of national governing bodies
(NGB), the Prince’s Trust and the Dame
Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust. Together
the organisations will aim to create and
support new jobs in sport, giving young
people the opportunity to develop ca-
reers in coaching, leadership and sports
Young people will get to develop careers in coaching
development. Sport England is currently
working with county sports partnerships ented sports coaches, administrators and can apply for jobs through the fund
and several other NGBs to examine the community health workers – exactly the after being unemployed for 10 months.
potential to create further opportunities people who will help us deliver a lasting The initiative was announced as Sport
through the fund. legacy from the London Olympics.” England agreed to invest a further
Secretary of State for Culture, Media The Future Jobs Fund will provide £1.38m in SkillsActive over the next two
and Sport, Ben Bradshaw, said: “This is funding for 150,000 posts – at least years. SkillsActive will support 46 NGBs
a big boost for community sport. These 100,000 for young people and 50,000 in in putting in place development pro-
jobs will create a new generation of tal- unemployment hotspots. Young people grammes and delivering grassroots sport.
School sport “reaches
New leisure centre for Scunthorpe
new benchmark”
More than half of all English school
W
ork is set to get underway pupils have taken part in at least
on the construction of a new three hours of sport a week over the
multi-million pound leisure past year, according to new research
complex in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, published by the Department for
after Sport England handed the scheme Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
a £750,000 funding boost. The government’s PE and Sport
Preparatory work is scheduled to start Survey 2008-09 has reported that
on 26 October at the site of the £21m schools are offering an average
Pods facility, which will include a 390sq of 18.6 sports as part of their PE
m (4,198sq ft) fitness suite, a 25m swim- lessons, with yoga, circus skills and
ming pool and a training pool, a dance cheerleading increasing in popular-
studio and a six-court sports hall.
The new Pods centre is scheduled
ity. Nearly all English schools offered
A crèche and a café will also form part
to open to the public in 2011
football and dance during the aca-
of the complex, which will be built by demic year, while there has been an
Bowmer and Kirkland and will comple- NLC cabinet member for sport, leisure increase in institutions offering cy-
ment North Lincolnshire Council’s (NLC) and culture, Christine O’Sullivan, said: cling (50 per cent), golf (42 per cent)
plans to refurbish the adjacent Central “The complex will provide very good and rugby league (34 per cent).
Park. London-based architects Andrew sport and leisure opportunities for However, the study has revealed
Wright Associates designed the centre. people of all abilities. It will also help a fall in the number of schools
The development of the Pods, which us to tackle real health issues such as providing hockey, fitness, canoeing
is scheduled to be completed in spring obesity and heart disease. and rugby union when compared
2011, has also received financial support “The Pods will encourage more people with 2007-08, although longer-term
from the Yorkshire Forward regional to exercise – a key component of the trends have remained stable.
development agency. government’s health strategy.”
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