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Welsh football centre planned PETE HAYMAN
A new purpose-built football training facility is to be built at the Newport International Sports Village (NISV) under plans unveiled by the Football Association of Wales (FAW). Working with the Welsh
Football Trust (WFT) and Newport City Council, the FAW has earmarked a loca- tion at the NISV’s National Velodrome for the scheme. Dedicated facilities for all
FAW and WFT’s representa- tive squads and a Centre of Excellence for coach educa- tion and sports science are proposed, along with a training facility for international and professional teams visiting Wales. FAW chief executive Jonathan Ford said: “It
has taken us 18 months from agreeing the prin- ciple of developing a National Football Centre to deciding that NISV is an ideal site location.
T e NISV site has been earmarked for the new national football centre
We visited a number of possible locations and spoke to several potential partners who were interested in helping us deliver the project.” WFT chief executive Neil Ward added: “In
time we also hope to build an indoor centre which, together with the 3G artifi cial pitch, will also be available for community use.”
SkillsActive welcomes new SPELG report PETE HAYMAN
A new report from leading sport and active leisure indus- try employers, which outlines future skills requirements needed to ensure continued growth, has been welcomed by the SkillsActive Group. T e study – from the Skills
Protocol Employer Leadership Group (SPELG) in Physical Activity, Sport and Active Leisure – also aims to help the sector have a “direct impact” on wider public health issues. Over the coming four years,
INDUSTRY COMMENT
Brigid Simmonds, chair of the Sport and Recreation Alliance
G
overnance is one of those things we all know is important but oſt en fi nd diffi cult to grasp.
But imagine something goes cata-
strophically wrong at your organisation. A big event fails; some money goes missing; a leading board member lets the organi- sation down. It’s terrible, whatever it is, and for a while it is the most important thing in your professional world. And aſt erwards, you put measures in place to stop it happening again or to deal with it if it does. T ose measures are governance. Behind almost every signifi cant crisis
within an organisation there lies a failure of governance. T at means that, at some time, the right processes weren’t in place to check, to scrutinise, to provide a bal- ance, to ask the right people or to set an issue in its proper context. And that is why it is so important to have good gov- ernance in place before the crisis arises. Equally, behind almost every successful organisation lies good governance struc- tures – and that is no coincidence. At our conference in May, the Sport
T e report aims to help the sector have a “direct impact” on wider issues
SPELG aims to establish a sin- gle qualifi cation structure led by employers, as well as working towards the need for all employees to hold a skills passport. SPELG will also support the inception of the new Chartered Institute for the Management
of Sport and Physical Activity. Meanwhile, SkillsActive has been identifi ed as a “key infl u- encer and driver of change” in the report and its management said its aims complemented the sector skills council’s own targets.
Glamorgan unveils ‘Kids Go Free’ policy PETE HAYMAN
Glamorgan County Cricket Club (GCCC) has removed entry fees for children aged 16 and under to all domestic games this summer. T e club said the move aims to encourage as many young supporters as possible to attend,
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and Recreation Alliance launched the Voluntary Code of Good Governance for the Sport and Recreation Sector. T e Code off ers organisations an insight into what good governance looks like in a sporting context by taking the good practice used in other spheres and making it relevant to them. Its most important feature is that it has been developed by the sector, for the sector. It has not been imposed but instead sport has come together to set up its own standards. Over the next few months we will help
and it started with the LV County Championship match with Gloucestershire on 14 April. GCCC’s Kids Go Free policy will also
cover all Friends Life Twenty20 and CB40 limited overs matches, as well as LV County Championship fi xtures during the season.
to embed the Code by releasing guidance on its principles and hosting a number of events. Our goal is to encourage as many members as possible to commit to the Code and help themselves to become ever more successful.
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