AoC East Midlands Further Education colleges will benefit from a £65,000 investment from Sport England to increase sports participation and develop community links.
The region has been successful in their bid for several sub regional pilot projects which have been designed to learn new lessons in successful ways to increase participation within the sector, whilst exploring different methods to establish and develop community links with key partners.
South Nottingham College will develop a cross college intramural sport programme forging links with National governing bodies and local clubs to support delivery through a newly appointed Intra Mural Sport Development Officer at the college. Regent College, Leicester College, Gateway College and Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College, will also benefit from a new post which will work across the four colleges, co-ordinating joint initiatives and developing links with local clubs and key partners in a number of sports.
Derby College will, in partnership with the Derby City Council, develop a student leisure card, enabling students to access leisure facilities, encouraging sports participation off site. In Lincolnshire, all FE Colleges will be developing a project with Lincolnshire Sports Partnership to offer students the opportunity to try all Olympic and Paralympic sports via their Quest for Gold programme, whilst supporting colleges to develop their own clubs in a chosen Olympic or Paralympic Sport.
Moulton College and Northampton College will collaborate with local clubs to deliver a club link programme which will aim to assist the migration of students from college sport into local club opportunities.
Baseball and Softball UK have also been a partner in the bid which will see the National Governing Body developing the minority sport in selected colleges in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. This work will help support the thriving East Midlands Softball League and also offer students the opportunity to participate in a new sport.
In addition to the sub-regional projects, the funding will also support regional activity by continuing to develop sub-regional sports networks, support the emergence of a sport curriculum group and improve regional communication channels.
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