Assessment Objective 4

Describe the aims of three national

organisations involved in sport

By Sam Hawkes
The three national sporting organisations that I will be doing are:

• Sports Council for Wales

• UK Sport

• ECB

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 Sports Council for Wales
What they do:

• The People & Programme team are responsible for

managing the training and development of all our
programmes.

• Their work covers the full range of sports participants from

young people through to adults. These are the only two types
of ages that the sports council for Wales focuses on.

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 Active Young people
• Active kids become active adults. The programmes that are offered engage with
young people making sure that they have the skills and confidence to become active
throughout their lives.

There are 3 main programmes to support Active Young People:

• Dragon Sport
• 5x60
• PE & School Sport

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 Dragon Sport
• Dragon Sport is a Sport Wales initiative funded by the National Lottery, designed to offer
7-11 year olds fun and enjoyable sporting opportunities.

• Dragon Sport is making a dramatic impact on sports participation by encouraging

children to become involved in a variety of organised sporting activities.

• The scheme broadens the interests of children who already participate in sport by offering
different varieties of sport and a lot of choices.

• Dragon Sport introduces children to coaching, skill development and appropriate

competition using versions of the adult game, modified to meet their needs and skill levels.
A portfolio of eight modified sports is used in the scheme. The eight Dragon Sports are
rugby, athletics, cricket, football, hockey, netball, tennis and golf.

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 5x60
• Aim - The Welsh Assembly Government has laid down the fitness gauntlet by setting the
target of seeing 90% of children taking part in regular and frequent activity by 2020. 5x60 is
rising to the challenge by helping to create the environment necessary for children to take part in
extra curricular sport and physical activity on a regular basis.

• What they do - Fully trained 5X60 officers are currently working in secondary schools to
extend the extra curricular programme for young sportsmen/women. A host of arranged activities
are taking place before school, at lunch time, after school and at the weekends.

• The Activities - There are many activities to choose from to suit everyone. There’s things
such as mountain biking, hill walking and surfing. Or there are the team sports such as football,
cricket and netball. 5x60 also provides activities such as street dancing, aerobics and table
tennis.
• 5x60 provides schools with the opportunity to listen to the needs of young
people by providing opportunities that they would like to participate in and be
fully inclusive for all young people.

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 P.E and School Sport
• The PE and School Sport (PESS) Project was set up in 2000 as a result of a task
force report outlining the key actions required to improve standards of PE .

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Aims
The project aims to raise standards in physical education by making sure that all schools:

• Manage the subject effectively within the whole school curriculum.

• Set challenging targets for raising standards in physical education and school sport.
• Provide enough curriculum time to teach the requirements of the National Curriculum for physical
education in all key stages.
• Develop young people's physical skills from one year to the next and improve their understanding of
the importance of health and fitness.
• Raise standards in physical education and school sport by establishing accredited continuing
professional development (CPD) programmes for all teachers.
 Active Adults
• People of all ages who are generally inactive can improve their health and
well-being by becoming active on a regular basis. And the benefits of doing
so are plenty.

The Active Adults programmes include:

• Let's Walk Cymru

• Free Swimming
• Mentro Allan

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 Let’s Walk Cymru
'Let's Walk Cymru' (LWC) is a Wales-wide walking programme tasked with increasing the
number of people using the great outdoors as a way of improving health and wellbeing of
the population.  The use of natural green space provides great opportunities for people to
participate in and enjoy walking.

The aims and objectives of this programme are to:

• Support existing and new walking groups and projects.

• Challenge organisations and groups to develop sustainable walking opportunities.
• Offer walking groups guidance in how to expand their menu of walking activities, by introducing more
progressive or challenging walks.
• Deliver health walk leader courses, signpost to other walk leader awards and provide insurance cover to
volunteer walk leaders.
• Engage with new target groups to increase the number of people benefitting from walking.

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 Free Swimming
Free swimming plays a key role in the Welsh Assembly Government's strategy to enable children and
adults to become more active.

• During selected sessions people aged 60 years and over are able to access swimming pools for
free in Wales.

• There are plenty of other water activities other than swimming laps you could try. There are
activities like walking or running in water and treading water which can be exhausting but it will
help tone your legs and arms.

• Many pools also offer a free activity with an Instructor each week. Below shows the activities that
are available:
- AquaFit session
- Learning to swim
- Stroke Improvement sessions;
- AquaGym workout.

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 Mentro Allan
• Mentro Allan is a collection of projects in Wales supported by the Big Lottery Fund and
a national partnership.

• The programme targets specific groups that are generally less active than the others.

• Each of the projects are funded for four years to increase the physical activity levels for
the target groups selected, making the best use of the local natural outdoor environment
close to where people live.

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 UK Sport
About UK Sport
• UK Sport was established in 1997 by Royal Charter
• It is responsible for investing around £100 million of public funds each year
• UK Sport is accountable to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS),
• Based in London, it employs around approximately 90 staff and it is overseen by the UK sport
board.

Core Responsibilities

Performance Major Events International

UK Sport is the strategic lead
body for high performance sport in
the UK. It invests Exchequer and
National Lottery funds in Britain’s
best Olympic and Paralympic
sports and athletes to maximise
their chances of success on the
World Stage.
UK Sport co-ordinates the bidding
and staging of major international
sporting events in the UK.
Working in partnership with
national governing bodies, cities
and regions over 120 events have
been supported throughout the
events scheme since 1997.
UK Sport works with National
Governing Bodies and other
partner organisations to help them
build positive working
relationships with International
Federations and other
international bodies. This helps
ensure Britain’s voice is heard on
a world stage.
 What they do
UK Sport’s responsibilities are to underpin and unlock the nation’s Olympic and Paralympic performance
potential by:

• Investing a significant majority of its income into the World Class Performance Programme, and working
closely with the national governing bodies of sport to ensure they operate as effectively as possible.

• Working with partners to develop the people and systems that support our leading athletes, principally
in the areas of coaching, talent identification and sports science and medicine practitioners and
Performance Lifestyle, to ensure a continuing legacy for our investment.

• Seeking cutting edge research and innovative solutions to performance challenges.

Some of the main things they focus on are:

• Their World Class Performance Programme

• Talent Identification & Development
• People Development
 UK Sport Performance Programme
The Programme covers all summer Olympic and Paralympic sports, together with the high-performing
winter Olympic sports and operates at three distinct levels:

• Podium - supporting athletes with realistic medal winning capabilities at the next
Olympic/Paralympic Games. 

• Development – comprising of athletes whose performances have suggested that they have realistic
medal winning capabilities for 2012 and newly funded sports that are demonstrating the ability to be
competitive by 2012.
 
• Talent - designed to support the identification and confirmation of athletes who have the potential
to progress through the World Class pathway with the help of targeted investment.

Having run the Programme since 1997

and with the benefit of lessons learned
over the Sydney and Athens
Olympiads, UK Sport has developed a
No Compromise approach, which
ultimately means taking no short cuts
in resourcing the best athletes to
realise their medal ambitions. Funding
is targeted at athletes via their sport's
governing body.

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 Talent Identification & Development
The aim of this programme is to find the future Olympic and Paralympic champions for
the UK. With London 2012 fast approaching this programme’s job is to be proactive in
unearthing talented individuals with the potential to represent Great Britain and
succeed on the world stage in 2012 and beyond, whilst also ensuring talent within the
system is nurtured.

The UK Talent Team is a working collaboration between UK Sport and the English
Institute of Sport with the remit of supporting the National Governing Bodies of
targeted Olympic and Paralympic sports to identify, confirm and develop talented
athletes. 

This programme focuses on four different things. They are:

• Talent Identification
• Talent confirmation
• Talent development
• Talent transfer
 People Development
A variety of unique and tailored people development programmes are delivered
throughout the year; designed to unlock the potential of skilled people to play a key role in
the future of the UK’s high performance sports system.
Programmes available include:

• Elite Coach - is a targeted, focused and fully supported programme for the very best coaches
who demonstrate the talent, dedication and determination to succeed and produce outstanding
performances.
• Elite Coach Apprentice Scheme - builds on the knowledge and experience in delivering the
programmes like ‘Elite Coach’ to create a bespoke development pathway towards coaching
excellence, based on the needs of each coach and their sport.
• IDEALS (International Development through Excellence and Leadership) - contributes
towards the leadership development of young people within the UK and Southern Africa and
towards the development of strategic partnerships through the International Development
Programme (IDP).
• Event Management - co-ordinating the UK’s efforts to bid and stage world class sporting
events and they also have a role to provide specialist technical support and expertise to local
organising committees.
• Performance Lifestyle - is a personalised support service specifically designed to help each
athlete create the unique environment necessary for their success.
• World Class Performance Conference - provides a multidisciplinary forum to meet, debate
and share best practice across key themes influencing athletes’ performances.
• Women and Leadership Development - help tackle the issue of women’s representation
within the highest ranks of British sport.
• The International Leadership Programme - is designed to equip participants with the skills
they need to become effective cross-cultural communicators able to operate successfully on the
international stage.
 England Cricket Board (ECB)

• The England and Wales Cricket Board is the governing

body for all cricket in England and Wales.

• ECB provides support for the game far beyond the

boundaries of just international and first class cricket.

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 National Cricket Performance Centre
The National Cricket Performance Centre is much more than just a training centre
for the England Performance Programme players, however, as it provides an all-
year-round facility to benefit cricket as a whole.

The Performance programme - under the guidance of the ECB's Performance

Director - incorporates technical, tactical, mental, physical and lifestyle
development.
The NCPC facility also provides a training base for all the ECB representative
age-group teams, senior and junior England Women’s squads - plus a base for
development, coaching and rehabilitation programmes.

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 England Performance Programme Background
The England Performance Programme is centrally co-ordinated, designed,
managed and delivered by the ECB staff based at the National Cricket
Performance Centre at Loughborough.

Objectives of the ECB:

• To select players who have the potential of winning matches for England
• To provide each player with an individually tailored development programme
• To provide each player with a comprehensive and individually tailored sports
science and medicine programme
• To provide a challenging competitive programme which reflects a balance
between preparation, competition and rest
• To provide dedicated coaching and support staff whose common goal is
excellence both on and off the field
• To provide excellent facilities to deliver the programme
• To provide an efficient, effective and accountable administrative structure
which delivers the programme
 ECB Association of umpires
The ECB’s aim for this is to develop competent
umpires and scorers to control and guide cricket
matches at every level from a playground level to a
test match standard.

To achieve all this they operate as an independent association with

the wholehearted support of the ECB and have a small team of their
own executives in the main ECB office at Lord's; working through the
regions to each County board, so that the officials are supported and
represented by them and that each individual voice and views of the
officials can be expressed to the them.
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