NEWS UPDATE
Entrepreneur announces £18m community stadium
Plans have been revealed to transform a 32-acre site in Kirkham, Lancashire into an £18m community sports, science and education centre. Plans for the Mill Farm site, drawn up by Frank Whittle Partnership, include a new 6,000-capacity home stadium for non-league AFC Fylde, a large indoor sports science building, a range of all-weather pitches for community use and a 63-bedroom hotel. Tere will also be a food store, a distribution centre with associated office space and a public house. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=7B2q3
Athletes become apprentice coaches
An initiative to help former top-class athletes become coaches has been launched by sportscotland. Te Coaching Futures initiative will see eight sports employ a retiring or retired athlete who will use their knowledge and expertise to help develop and inspire the next generation of champions. The programme follows a successful
six-month pilot project which resulted in Olympian Kris Gilchrist becoming an integral part of Scottish Swimming’s coaching team. Te other sports which will employ an apprentice are athletics (Alan Scott, Olympian); cycling (Kevin Stewart, former British record holder); judo (Matt Purssey, 10-time British champion); netball (Lesley MacDonald, Scotland’s most capped player); rowing (John Higson, former Scottish champion); tennis (Joe Gill, Aegon British Tour winner); and triathlon (Bex Milnes, former elite triathlete). Stewart Harris, CEO of sportscotland, said
that with many ex-athletes naturally drawn towards coaching, the programme will help
Powell, a former captain of Welsh hockey team
Sarah Powell becomes first female CEO at Sport Wales
Sport Wales has appointed former Welsh hockey captain Sarah Powell as its first female CEO. Since retiring from elite sport, Powell’s roles in sport administration have included a directorship of the 2010 Ryder Cup organising team. More recently, she was corporate director at Sport Wales. Commenting on her appointment,
Powell said: “Recent successes show that Wales has the potential to be a leading light in the world, not just in terms of medals won, but in terms of the life opportunities we can offer our children.”
European recommendations on sport discussed
Te European Commission is to produce official recommendations on physical activ- ity levels as part of its strategy to tackle the high rates of inactivity in Europe. It will be the first ever recommen-
dation the council has produced in the field of sport and will build on the EU Physical Activity Guidelines. The Council will start discussing the recom- mendation later this month (September) and could publish and adopt the new guidelines as early as the end of the year. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=E5M9m
‘Record investment’ for Welsh rugby
The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) invested a record £22.1m into the game at all levels during the year to July 2013. Publishing its annual report, WRU said it has allocated £4.0m into grassroots rugby, while the cost of elite rugby went up 2 per cent to a figure of £4.2m. Included within the £22.1m
are one-off investments of £1.3m into the community game, mainly through facil- ities grants, and £1.0m made available to the four Regions to fund player recruitment, retention and development. As a result of the investment in grassroots,
Kim Gilchrist took part in the six-month pilot scheme
to increase the number of home grown per- formance coaches delivering in Scotland, retain vital knowledge and expertise within sport, and provide a stream of future national coaches. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=r8N6p
Te cost of WRU’s elite programme increased by 2 per cent in 2012-13
WRU said there were now 2,000 new junior players involved in the game. WRU reported a total turnover of £61m for the year, with
pre-tax profits at £29.1m - up from £27.6m the year before. Te see the full results of the WRU annual report, see:
http://lei.sr?a=v7M8c
CIMSPA review gathering pace
A business review of Te Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) is gathering pace, with a number of insights already being drawn from the three month process. According to CIMSPA trustee David Stalker, high numbers
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of individuals and organisations have come forward offering opinions, ideas and support for the Institute. Te review will now enter the electronic
consultation phase before a final revision. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=e4q2m
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