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Conference Programme

The conference combined key note presentations, updates and continuing professional development as well as a networking event in the evening where guests enjoyed discussing the day, relaxing and catching up with colleagues. To view the presentations simply click on the links provided below.

Conference Programme – Day One

Day one focused on the core area of sports development, beginning with a more detailed look at the impact of the new Sport England strategy and how the funding of sport will change as a result. In the afternoon, attention switched to how schools look to deliver on the ‘five hour’ promise for the delivery of sport for young people.

Time Activity Speaker
08:30 - 10.00 Registration & Networking Breakfast  
10.00 - 10.10 Introduction to Day One Peter Mann
10:15 - 12.15 Effective Community Sport
+ Sport England strategy for the future Mihir Warty
+ The Badminton experience Adrian Christy
+ Integrating NGBs and CSPs Steve Nelson
+ Effect of the new strategy on local authorities Mark Sutcliffe
Followed by panel discussion
45 Minute Lunch
13.00 - 14.45 Workshops on Effective Community Sport: 3 x 30 mins
+ Club development 1 2 3 4 5 6 Peter Ackerley
+ Volunteer development Margaret Nolan
+ Coaching Framework Andrew Gair
+ Governing body development planning George Wood
+ SDO Professional development through workforce plans Sarah Hawkins
+ CSP and NGBs Richard Saunders
15 Minute Break
15.00 - 15.40 School Sport – The Five Hour Offer
+ What does the five hour offer mean for community sport? Steve Grainger
15.45 - 17.25 Case studies 3 x 30mins
All workshops will be led and co-ordinated by the Youth Sport Trust in partnership with a number of supporting organisations
+ School sport coaching and recruit into coaching Roger Davis & Andrew Gair
+ Competition Rachel O'Bryan & Geoff Maltby
+ Leadership & volunteering Kat Southwell and Neil Raine
+ Further education sport coordinators Helen Brooking, Peter Gordon and Clare Howard
+ Multi sport disability Mark Botterill
17.30 Day One - Close
19.00 Networking Reception at the Crystal Bar

Conference Programme – Day Two

Day two began with debate and workshops on the ‘up-skilling’ and training requirements for the sports development sector. In the afternoon, the subject of discussion focused on equality in sport with workshops centred around the inclusion of all groups in sport and practical examples of how sport can be a positive vehicle for change for today’s often ‘challenged’ society.

Time Activity Speaker
08.30 - 09.20 Registration & Refreshments  
09.25 - 09.30 Introduction to Day Two John Thorpe
09.35 - 10.10 Training and ‘Upskilling’ SDOs
+ The skills agenda Rt. Hon Richard Caborn MP
+ Q & A panel discussion Rt. Hon Richard Caborn MP
David Levine
Sue Sutton
John Thorpe
10.15 - 12.30 Updates: 4 x 30 mins
+ Sporting excellence and apprenticeships Alan Sykes/Steve Mitchell
+ Integrated SDO professional development Phil Collier/Steve Woolland
+ National Skills Academy (NSA) Florence Orban
+ Diploma in Sport and Active Leisure Sue Hook
+ United Kingdom Coaching Certificate Stuart Guise
+ Employability and Skills for Life Bansari Somani
60 Minute Lunch
13.30 - 13.55 Equality in Sport
+ Opportunity and risk, not carrot and stick – a new approach to equality Sue Tibballs
14.00 - 15.25 Case studies 3 x 20mins
+ Recruit into coaching Phil Veasey
+ Addressing worklessness through sport Simon Kirkland
+ Sport for communities Nik Trivedi
+ Sport and migrant workers Liz and Mike Behnke
+ Addressing crime through sport Mark Cullum & Paul Casswell
+ Women into coaching Liz Davidson
15.30 - 15.45 Summing Up and Close Dave Gent