Tameside Stayed Active with Tameside Sports Development

2007

• Sporting Talent In Tameside
• Greater Manchester Youth Games
• Greater Manchester Mini Games
• Sports Awards
• Grant Aid
• Early Years
• Volunteers
• Holiday Sports Camps
• Special Projects
• Physical Activity
• Sport In Schools
• Club Development

Sporting Talent In Tameside

Did you know that Tameside have plenty of talented young sports people?

36 young top performers selected from multi skills festivals held at the beginning of the year are now part of Tameside’s Academy at Oxford Park Community Sports Centre in Ashton and St Thomas More RC College in Denton.

From June 2007 – March 2008 they will be involved in invasion games, racquet sports, gymnastics and will be tested regularly on their 10 fundamental movement skills. They will be tracked through their local sports club and hopefully we will see someone from Tameside representing Great Britain in London 2012 Olympic Games.

Tameside won the Norwich Union Make Local Sport a Winner Award in September 2007 after beating the other 9 local authorities for a prize fund of £12,500. This money will be used towards vital equipment and a Multi Skills Coach to enhance delivery in schools.

In October representatives from Sports Development travelled to London to battle it out against the other regional winners from across the Country to win the £50,000 award for talented young children in their Boroughs but came a close second to Sheffield.

Greater Manchester Youth Games

Yet again Tameside brought home the medals in 2007! With a mixture of team and individual medallists , this amounted to 9 Gold, 9 Silver and 10 Bronze medals and the largest number of young people (257) participating than any other borough.

71% are now members of local sports clubs thanks to local club coaches working in partnership with Tameside Sports Development.

Tameside Hawkes Hockey Club, Tameside Netball Club, Raven Judo Club, Rosehill Tennis Club, East Cheshire Harriers Athletic Club, Stalybridge Waterpolo Club to name just a few.

Greater Manchester Mini Games

9 Local Primary Schools represented Tameside in the above games in Manchester this year in 9 sports. This year, we came away with our best results ever. With 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 2 Bronze winners!

Schools representing Tameside in 2007 were:- St Mary’s RC, Oakdale and Globe Lane in Dukinfield, Russell Scott, Manor Green and St John Fisher RC in Denton, St Peters RC in Stalybridge, Our Lady’s of Mount Carmel in Ashton, Hawthorns in Audenshaw and Mottram Primary in Mottram.

Sports Awards

Last year the Tameside Sports Awards Evening was presented by Sky Sports presenter John Gwynne and guest speaker Mike Watkinson along with the Mayor of Tameside supported our nominees.

All nominees received special recognitition for their commitment and hard work in the community. One special winner, Matthew Nixon a talented Golfer, Ashton Under Lyne Golf Club member, received the overall Sports Achiever Award and also won the Greater Manchester Award!

Grant Aid

Grants from the Sporting Individuals fund in 2007 went to 51 young people showing talent in their chosen sport. 32 local sports clubs also received grants from Tameside for various projects within their clubs from the Tameside Sports Club Development Fund.

Early Years

Physical activity for all ages is vital. Tameside Sports Development have been focussing on young children under the age of 5 to instil the importance of being active and staying active from a very early age.

Sessions at Children’s Centres, Welly walks, Summer activities, physical play sessions and football for little feet are only some of the sessions that have been offered and there will be more in the new year to get the little ones active!

Volunteers

In 2007 over 60 new volunteers were recruited to the Tameside Volunteers Scheme, offering people the chance to gain sports qualifications and the vital hands-on experience in local clubs, community sessions, holiday programmes and school curriculum sessions.

With Learn to Lead courses running throughout the summer the volunteers accrued over 1400 hours during the two-week period.

3 have been selected to receive further mentoring support due to their commitment and dedication to volunteering. These 3 volunteers excelled during the Learn to Learn programme through their assessment.

One particular volunteer won the Tameside volunteer of the year award for his services with Waterloo Football Club and Tameside Sport Development.

Amy Mather, former volunteer, is now working as a fulltime Sports Development Coach for Tameside Sports Development Unit, recruited in 2007.

Holiday Sports Camps

Over the 5 holiday periods in 2007 over 1500 young people attended holiday sports courses, in Multi sports camps, basketball, cricket, netball, rugby, athletics, under 5’s play sessions, cheerleading, gymnastics and volleyball.

Some of which were led by sports coaches from local sports clubs thus encouraging young people to join sports clubs and stay active.

Special Projects

This is an alternative curriculum providing leadership courses for 14 – 16 yrs old identified at being at risk. Tameside Sports Development delivered 12 courses with over 120 young people attending and 30% gained a recognised leadership qualification.

Pathway into Sport Programme engaged over 320 young people aged between 5 – 13 years of age. To overcome barriers such as – social exclusion, health and financial disadvantage, failing at school, poor social skills or have behavioural problems.

These young people are encouraged to attend sporting activities to aid overcoming these barriers Stastics have shown over a cross section of young people on the scheme, that there has been a dramatic rise in attainment levels in schools and a boost in self confidence.

Physical Activity

Maintaining a physically active lifestyle is a national issue and we are tackling it right here in Tameside.

With the Active Ashton Project encouraging people in the Ashton Regeneration Area to adopt a healthy lifestyle with 16 new activities set up in the area.

A series of Community Health Walks now take place on a weekly basis in Ashton, Hyde, Hattersley and Haughton Green and a variety of classes across the Borough have been set up to keep Tamesider’s active.- Tai Chi, aerobics and chair-based aerobics.

Sport In Schools

Tameside Sports Development offer curriculum and after school sports coaching in over 83% of Tameside Primary Schools.

Our experienced and fully qualified Sports Development Coaches lead lessons in Athletics, Basketball, Cricket, Hockey, Tennis, Netball, Rugby for Keystage 2 and Multi Skills for Keystage 1.

From September 2007 the team now offer Dance!

Club Development

A Club Development Forum was set up in 2007 with 10 representatives from each of the sport specific development groups feeding into the Sports and Physical Activity Alliance.

Several clubs have achieved Club Mark status in 2007 with Cobra Martial Arts Club, the only Martial Arts Club in the NorthWest to gain Club Mark status based in Dukinfield.