06 | CUBO AWARDS 2014 | sponsored by
Excellence in Student Sport Experience
Durham University
Durham off ers a comprehensive and dynamic sport programme that engages the majority of its student population on a weekly basis. The programme has three core strands of performance, participation and outreach and caters for all levels, from the world-class performer to the casual user. The University is one of the leading sport performance universities in Britain but also has one of the most comprehensive internal competition
Imperial College London
Health, fi tness and wellbeing is central to the student experience and life on campus at Imperial. With a 'work hard and play hard' philosophy, Imperial off ers free gym and swim to students – a successful strategy which has led to over 75% of students actively participating in sport. Just 10 years ago, sport at the College told a very diff erent story. Struggling in the bot om
Loughborough University
Loughborough University has a long history of producing world-class athletes from across many diff erent sports. They have also embarked upon new programmes that provide students of all abilities with the opportunity to participate in sport. The ‘Loughborough Sport Pathway’ off ers students the chance to compete at the highest level all the way through to playing sport for fun at a recreational level. The new ‘My Lifestyle’ programme off ers
University of Manchester
Hall Sport is a participation programme at the University of Manchester funded by Sport England, designed to provide students living in halls of residence with free sports on their doorstep. The programme off ers ‘drop in’ casual
sports and activity sessions with the aim of trying to engage with those students living in halls who would not usually get involved in
sport. This was achieved by reducing barriers such as cost and travel,
utilising existing spaces within halls
and linking with University sports centres. The programme delivers 45 hours of
activity each week, ranging from squash and basketball to cardio tennis and fi ve-a-side Football. Registration fi gures have grown from just over 1,000 in year one to 3,000 in year three.
Hall Sport is now used as part of the
recruitment package to help promote student life at the University of Manchester. The programme is fully embedded into the halls of residence package and ‘student life’ off er. The University has recognised the benefi t
of Hall Sport and has agreed to continue to fund the programme moving forward. This is a testament to the success of the programme and the impact it has made.
students the chance to participate in free recreational sports activities; it includes 22 diff erent sports from wheelchair basketball to boxing and volleyball to dance and mass participation events such as our very own 5km campus run ‘JOIN THE 5000’. Between October 2013 and January 2014, 3,200 students participated in My Lifestyle. It is popular with female students who make up 64% of participants.
The provision of recreational facilities alongside organised
activities has been a huge success and has undoubtedly added an extra dimension
to the ‘Loughborough sport experience’. With 73% of students participating in sport at least once per week, compared with the national average of 57% Loughborough believes that their University provides the best student sport experience.
half of the university sports league and stuck with sports facilities which did not refl ect the changing student
demographic, the College’s offi cial sporting
body ‘Sport Imperial’ was launched and with it a clear strategy. After large investment each campus
now has access to quality facilities and services, including a £12m fl agship sports centre, Ethos, four fi tness gyms, two sports
grounds and a boathouse. The College is now the top university in London for sport and enjoys its top-20 UK ranking. With 34,000 monthly visitors to Ethos,
the fi ve-court sports hall, climbing wall, 25m pool, exercise studio, squash courts and gym are well used, making the centre one of the busiest across the UK for its size, earning it Educational Club of the Year status at the FLAME Awards in 2011 and 2012.
programmes. Durham’s programme is built on a top down model, they have worked on get ing performance delivery right in the belief that this will cascade down into participation at diff erent levels. Participation rates are high – around 5,000
students play college sport on a weekly basis. There are numerous fi tness classes at 10 gyms across the two sites. Students also take part as offi cials: having formed their own referees’
societies alongside such governing bodies as the RFU and the FA, the vast majority of student games are offi ciated by students. The outreach programme sees
staff and students work on 10 projects a week during term, working with schoolchildren, released prisoners, recovering drug addicts and the elderly. Durham’s sport programme is truly inclusive, of both the student population and the local community.
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