Taster session delivery – 8 Day Centres will attend 2 x 6-week blocks of multi-sport taster sessions each year. Each 6-week block will include 2 sessions of 12 sports, delivered over 2-hour sessions over 6 days. 2 hours of sport will be delivered in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon, delivered Monday to Friday. Sports will include: Tennis, Badminton, Indoor Cricket, Trampolining, Football, Boccia/ New Age Curling, Sailing, Cycling, Archery, Skiing, Golf, Angling. October 2014 – May 2015. 6-week blocks – 2 hours x 12 sports = 24 hours per block. 2 blocks per Day Centre = 48 hours of delivery. X 8 Day Centres = 384 hours of delivery per year. Each sport will be delivered over 32 hours over the year. Sessions will take place during day sessions – Monday to Friday. Gosling Sports Park Stanborough Road Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL8 6XE Stanborough Park & Outdoor Sites Stanborough Road Welwyn Garden City Herts AL8 6DQ People with physical and learning impairments – learning disability (LD), wheelchair users, hearing impaired (HI) and visual impaired (VI). All participants will be aged 16+ years. Target group will be current users of Day Services in Stevenage, North Herts, East Herts, Broxbourne, Hertsmere, and St Albans – names of the centres? HCC, Gosling Sports Park, Finesse Leisure Partnership and UH. NGB qualified, disability trained and experienced sport specific coaches. Delivery - £ Facility Hire - £ New disability specific equipment - £ Transport - £ HCC - Day Service Support Worker(s) - 3 days per week x 150 weeks - £82.33 per day. Sessions will be supported by student volunteers – in-kind UoH. 12 participants per session x 2 blocks per year = 24 participants per Day Centre. X 8 Day Centres = 192 participants per year. On average, each participant will attend 8 sessions = 1,536 attendances per year (sessions = sport taster).
to participants. Those sports will be then developed into disability hub sites that will be accessed by the wider disability community, as well as existing participants. We will also engage National Disability Sport Organisations (NDSOs), for example UK Deaf Sport, in the development of impairment specific clubs and activity sessions. University volunteers will assist participants in the sessions through their roles as ‘activity buddies’. We aim to create community hub sites for disability within the centres. Disabled people will also be offered the chance to complete basic Sports Leaders qualifications and assist with club sessions. AL8 6DQ Clubs will be open to users of Day Centres as above, but also wider members of the disabled community ages 14+ years. Sessions will accommodate a range of physical and learning disabilities. Student volunteers will provide support on an in-kind basis. year. Year 3 What When Where/Who How Targets Overview of the activities you will deliver Start date How often will you deliver? Length of sessions? End Geographical locations (please list specific sites) Who is the focus for this activity? (age, segmentation etc) What is the delivery mechanism and which key partners are involved. Likely total cost of this activity in Year 3 Participant and throughput targets for this activity
date (if applicable) All activities in Year 1 will be repeated as above. In addition, we will create new disability clubs in years 2 and three, see outlined below. Club development – Working in partnership with National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of sport, HSP, WHSPAA and HCC, we will develop new disability specific sports clubs. Consultation following the initial taster session will reveal the top sports of interest to participants. Those sports will be then developed into disability hub sites that will be accessed by the wider disability community, as well as existing participants. We will also engage National Disability Sport Organisations (NDSOs), for example UK Deaf Sport, in the development of impairment specific clubs and activity sessions. University volunteers will assist participants in the sessions through their roles as ‘activity buddies’. We aim to create community hub sites for disability within the centres. Disabled people will also be offered the chance to complete basic Sports Leaders qualifications and assist with club sessions. June 2016 – May 2017 – Year 3. 3 sports developed each year into disability community clubs. Gosling Sports Park Stanborough Road Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL8 6XE Stanborough Park & Outdoor Sites Stanborough Road Welwyn Garden City Herts AL8 6DQ People with physical and learning impairments – learning disability (LD), wheelchair users, hearing impaired (HI) and visual impaired (VI). All participants will be aged 16+ years. Clubs will be open to users of Day Centres as above, but also wider members of the disabled community ages 14+ years. Sessions will accommodate a range of physical and learning disabilities. NGBs, NDSOs, HSP, WHSPAA, County SDOs, HCC, Gosling Sports Park, Finesse Leisure Partnership and UH. Participant fees will cover costs of ongoing delivery and facility hire. Student volunteers will provide support on an in-kind basis. 3 new clubs developed per year. 10 participants retained into each new club – 30 per year. 10 disabled people completing Level 1 Awards in Sports Leadership per year.