Places, People, Play
'Places, People, Play- delivering a mass participation sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games' means that as well as getting more people into sport, that they want this to continue when the Olympics finish.
This is an initiative from the government that will hopefully bring inspiration into the heart of the local communities, and magic of the Olympic/Paralympic games. The cost of it all is £135 million. They are trying to inspire more people to take part in sport and play sport in more communities. It is working with the 'British Olympic Association' (BOA), also with the support of the 'London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games'. Sport England are also involved in it.
They are trying to bring sport to more people and places to allow them to play more. They do this through; Iconic Facilities, Inspired Facilities, Protecting Playing Fields.
They will try and make sport happen at 'local levels' which means getting the locals in the community to take part against/with others members of the community. They will try and make this happen through; Sport Makers.
The intended outcome of this initiative is to bring sport to communities how don't play sport and get them involved. Also, to spread knowledge of the games through playing and using the Olympic and Paralympic games to do this. Places, People, Play have over £135 million of funding, from the government.
Iconic Facilities
'Sport England will invest in a small number of strategic multi-sport facility projects that will significantly contribute to an increase in mass participation in sport across England.' basically means that they will put some money in to help development and protect sport in many other communities. This will give many communities places for people to play, like ball courts etc.
The intended outcomes for this initiative is:
Sport England investment will be in large capital grants - on average, between £500,000 - £1,500,000 will be given to do this.
Targeted investment in up to 25 Iconic Facilities will create a network of multi-sport facilities of regional significance delivering both local and regional sporting opportunities.
All projects are required to measure their performance by monitoring participants on an annual basis.
Iconic Facilities have been given £30 million of National Lottery funding, as well as partnership funding, over three £10 million rounds of funding which are 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14.
Protecting Playing Fields
'Playing fields are vital to a vibrant grassroots sports environment, and this programme will enhance the role Sport England already plays in protecting playing fields, by securing the future of many sites for a minimum of 25 years, and helping communities realize the sporting benefits of playing field land.' means that Sport England have been given permission, by this programme, to protect many playing fields that are used by communities or grassroot clubs for 25 years and development them. They run many different projects that will; Offer support from a range of partners to community and voluntary groups and local authorities to protect playing fields, create new playing field land, bring disused playing fields back into use, and improve the condition of pitches. The intended outcomes of this initiative are:
Given the importance of clubs to sport at community level, and the impact they believe they can make right across the country with this investment as they are proposing to make grants of between £20,000 - £50,000.
They are aiming to invest in and protect around 400 playing field sites.
All projects will be required to measure their performance by monitoring sessions delivered.
This initiative have a £10 million National Lottery fund to work with as well as partnership funding of five £2 million funding rounds; Two in 2011/12, two in 2012/13 and one in 2013/14.
Sport Makers
'The Sport Makers programme, funded by the National Lottery, will recruit tens of thousands of new sports volunteers aged 16 years and over to organise and lead community sporting activities across the country.' means that the makers of this project are aiming to get a lot more involved in playing sport across the country, especially people aged around 16 by arranging competitions for loads to get involved in.
The intended outcomes for this project are to get:
-50,000 new Sport Makers recruited and invited to an orientation workshop,
-40,000 Sport Makers to take up opportunities and increase participation for a minimum of 10 hours each,
-The Olympic and Paralympic values brought to life for the Sport Makers through their orientation workshop.
Sport Makers work alongside many diiferent partners to help them achieve their goals. Some included are the:
-British Olympic Association (BOA),
-London Organisating Committee of the Olympic Games,
-National Governing Bodies,
-County Sports Partnerships,
-Local authority sports development teams,
-Other local government partners,
-Other national and county/sub-regional voluntary partners.
School Sport
'The Government is committed to driving a long-term Olympic legacy of more children doing competitive sport through the introduction of a new school sport competition.' This means that the government (and DCMS) are trying to make sure that children doing sport will continue doing sport in the long term by getting them involved into many and different competitions in schools.
They aim to provide more opportunities for school pupils to compete in regional and national competitions against youngsters of around the same age, with the most talented young sport pupils having a chance to represent their schools in a high-profile national event. Doing this may get them reckonised by GB olympic coaches.
'Government and Lottery funding will give thousands of young people the opportunity to take part in competitive sport through the School Games.' means that because of a lot of money from different companies, schools will have enough money to take the school to many different competitions all over the country. It will give them funds to travel and maybe stay near the competition. The School Games tournament will give every child the opportunity take part and compete. As part of the offer:
- 500 schools across nine regions will pilot an annual School Games Day: a ’finals’ day stemming from a programme of intra-school competition which will offer disabled children as many opportunities as non-disabled children
- a rolling programme of leagues and tournaments will promote more competition between schools at a town or district level
- up to 60 new, county or city-level ‘Festivals of Sport’ will showcase the best of local competitive sport in the inter-school finals
- the most talented young sports people will have the chance to represent their schools in a high-profile, national event.
Sport England
"Sport England is the government agency responsible for building the foundations of sporting success, by creating a world-leading community sport environment of clubs, coaches, facilities and volunteers."-http://www.sportengland.org/about_us/what_we_do.aspx
The five main targets for Sport England are:
Grow- They are trying to get another 1 million people taking part in more sport, as well as more children and young people taking part in five hours of PE and sport a week to get them into playing sport.
Sustain- They will be trying to make more people satisfied with their sporting experience and have better experiences. Also, trying to get at least 25% fewer 16-18 year olds dropping out of sports. These targets account for 60% of their investment.
Excel- Sport England will make sure there is an improved talent development in at least 25 sports to get more involved and perform better.This target will account for 25% of the investment.
Excel- Sport England will make sure there is an improved talent development in at least 25 sports to get more involved and perform better.This target will account for 25% of the investment.
What does their work involve?- Sport England will invest expertise, resources and both government and Lottery money into the community for sport in the younger people. £480 million is invested directly through 46 national governing bodies of sport. They have a primary role in protecting playing fields and keeping them safe as well as letting the community use it.
Who do they work with?- To succeed, Sport England have to work closely with a wide range of organisations, including:
-Sporting landscape partners (like Youth Sport Trust and UK Sport),
-National governing bodies of sport (like the FA),
-National partners,
-Local authorities (like BANES),
-County sports partnerships,
-Higher and further education,
-The third sector,
-The commercial sector,
-London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and the Olympic Delivery Authority.
'Sport England is actively involved in a variety of projects. We may have either invested in them or be giving advice in relations to design, cost, procurement, operational management and planning.'
What they mean, is that Sport England are working with many different projects to help achieve their own goals, and the goals of the projects.
-An example of the schemes they are currently involved in, include:
-Portsmouth 50m pool including athletics and cycling,
-Hillingdon 50m Pool including sports hall and lido,
-Manchester Indoor BMX proposal,
-PFI credit schemes,
-National centres project upgrades,
-Strategic review of national centres,
-Sustainable facilities concept of introducing a commercial partner into the proposals and establishing a dowry to secure the operational funding of the project for a minimum term (current proposals include schemes at Plymouth and Warrington).
They have helped in many different projects in the past, like funding £120million in the new Wembley Stadium, as well as funding the same amount for the 'English Institute of Sport Programme'.
'£2.6 million funding boost to get more disabled people playing sport'
This initiative falls into the 'Grow' aim for Sport England, because they are trying to get more disabled people playing sport. Sport England will fund 5 disasbility sports organisations as currently only 1 in 15 disabled adults play sport compared to the 1 in 6 of the overall population and hopefully this will increase.
Sport England’s Chair, Richard Lewis, said: “Our goal is to get many more disabled people playing sport and we can only achieve this through a changed approach – one where sports bodies integrate the sport on offer to disabled and non-disabled people as far as possible. The investment we’re announcing today will ensure that those on the frontline of grassroots sport have easy access to the expertise they need to make this happen.” This means that Richard Lewis thinks that the approach to sport should be changed to get more people with disasbilities involved.
Gambling Regulation
Gambling Act 2005The Gambling Act 2005 regulates gambling in Great Britain. Area's include; casino's, arcades, betting bingo, gambling machines (such as slot machines), social lotteries and remote gambling.
It has three principle objectives:
-Keeping gambling crime free
Keeping the bettings from going corrupt and preventing the betting scandals. Also stopping the betting companies from collasping because of the scandals.
-Making sure that gambling is fair and openKeeping the bettings from going corrupt and preventing the betting scandals. Also stopping the betting companies from collasping because of the scandals.
Keeping the gambling fair from all sides, like not allowing players to bet on games they are involved in. Also, making betting open for all over 18 and allowing everyone to bet on anything in a match, from amount of cards to fouls.
-Protecting children and vulnerable adults
Making sure only over 18's can bet to protect kids from debts at an early edge.
Making sure only over 18's can bet to protect kids from debts at an early edge.
It helps regulate gambling by making sure that there is no cheating going on, all gambling is fair and not fixed and also making sure that only adults (over 18) can do it. The Act helps protect gambling from crime and betting scandals, and to stop gambling from going corrupt.
It is important to regulate gambling to keep it from going bust and to stop betting scandals. If you didn't have the Act, you would have betting scandals week in week out and corrupt betting.
Places People Play is a £135m inititiative that will bring the inspiration and magic of a home Olympic Games and Paralympic Games into the heart of local communities It is being delivered by Sport England in partnership with the British Olympic Association, the British Paralympic Association and with the support of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games.
They will be planning to transform the places where people play sport, making the benefits of London 2012 visible in cities, towns and villages across the country through:
- Iconic facilities - investing in regionally-signficant
multi-sport facilities that will represent best practice for the sector. - Inspired Facilities - modernising and extending clubs and opening up local facilities for community sport.
- Protecting Playing Fields - protecting and improving hundreds of playing fields across the country, preserving high-quality spaces for local people to play and enjoy sport.
