Tameside
Sport & Physical Activity Alliance Delivery Plan

2008 – 2010

Delivery Plan for Tameside Sport and Physical Activity Alliance

Tameside has an excellent reputation for the provision of sporting activities involving a wide range of partners and agencies. The development of the Tameside Sport and Physical Activity Alliance (SPAA) is beginning to have a significant impact on improvements and approaches to the breadth and scale of sport and physical activities for all residents of the borough.

The SPAA is not confined to the ‘Action and Executive ‘ forums but is made up of a wide network of forums that allows all agencies, clubs, schools and facilities to have a voice in developments at an easily accessed and relevant level. The strategic aims of the SPAA are shown in the ‘Vision’ document and there is a need to use these strategic aims to shape a realistic and effective delivery plan.

The impact of actions linked to the SPAA will depend upon the commitment of all partners to co-operative working and shared values. The lead must be given by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (TMBC) with a clear remit of not operating in isolation and using the strength of each and every partner to achieve the best results. The Tameside Sport and Physical Activity Strategy and its links to Local Area Agreements has been endorsed by the full membership of the SPAA and as such provides a framework on which to build.

The excellent work of the forums serving clubs structures, facility improvements, school sport and community development mirrors the national picture of improving provision for school aged young people with the majority of national resources being passed to Sports Colleges and School Sport Partnerships. Recent consideration and resources for providing five hours of sports provision in schools and communities will be welcomed by our SPAA membership. It is felt that the collaborative nature of the SPAA will allow Tameside to gain maximum value from these promised additional resources. The Tameside SPAA will continue to use existing resources in the most effective manner and place further emphasis on school to club and school to community links.

The biggest challenges will be extending beyond provision for young people to being concerned with activity patterns of the entire population on the Borough. The Tameside SPAA has a desire to build a bank of actions that become an evolving and changing delivery plan. To be accepted by the SPAA, each action needs to meet the following criteria:

• Delivery of action must involve more than one partner in the SPAA.
• Set targets need to show an improvement on evidenced baseline data and state the timescales, resources and partner responsibilities.
• Baseline data and targets should relate to one or more of 3 PSA targets and/or be linked to one or more of KPI’s; shown in detail in ‘Vision’ document.
• Each action should be linked to one of the four areas of Local Area Agreement and to the strategic objectives of the Tameside Sport and Physical Activity Strategy endorsed by the SPAA.

It is expected that every SPAA partner will be able to identify where the resources for their priority provision originate and there will be a synergy and avoidance of duplication created by the sharing of resources between partners.

The SPAA recognises the need to align its actions with Sport England by increasing the activity levels of the adult population. The results from the Active People survey show Tameside with 17.5% participating in sport and physical activity at least three times each week as less than the Greater Manchester average of 19.9% and a Northwest average of 20.6%. To bring Tameside in line with regional results will be a key achievement for the SPAA and will be achieved by increasing participation through investment in our sporting networks in clubs, facilities and communities.

Derek Mapp former Chair of Sport England confirmed in 2007 that their ambition was to get two million people doing more sport regularly by 2012 and that they wanted schemes that were going to have an impact on post 16 years participation. Sport England therefore developed the Community Investment Fund to invest at a local level in sporting pathways that increase and maintain participation, volunteers and investment in clubs and coaches.

To benefit from support from Sport England and other national agencies it is recognised that the SPAA must adopt actions that are seen to directly increase the percentage of adults participating on a regular basis. The Tameside SPAA would wish to increase frequency of active recreation for as many adults as possible and we would measure the increase in participation at all levels of frequency. In linking with Sport England the SPAA will select from its comprehensive list of actions, those that impact on the following four areas of development of sport and physical activity in Tameside.

• Young adults 16 to 19 years
• Teenage Girls aged 14 to 16 years
• Attracting young adults ‘Back to Activity’
• Family focus activities

The actions from the SPAA Delivery Plan for these four areas is shown in the following pages.

Tameside SPAA Delivery Process

Action plans for each forum in network and direct links to needs of local people

Network of forums with widest possible representation and serving clubs, facilities, communities and schools.

Rationalisation of all plans to avoid duplication and ensure effective use of resources.

SPAA Action and Executive Groups providing a focus and decision making power for the wide network.

Highlighting key plans that will merit support from external agencies through addressing issues of both national and local concern.

External agencies including Sport England, Department of Health, police National Governing Bodies, Connexions etc.