Respond
We’ll build on the £230m of government and National Lottery funding provided so far to help our sector get through the coronavirus crisis, including through an additional £20m for our Tackling Inequalities Fund.
This fund has already allocated £20m to over 2,800 community organisations, with over 80% of these organisations partnering with us for the first time. We’ll contact the national partners involved in supporting this fund shortly to set out the next steps.
This goal will also see us work closely with the government to deliver the £300m Summer Sport Survival Package, with the Winter Sport Survival package supporting more than 1,200 organisations and allocating over £272m in loan and grant funding.
We’ll continue to use our award-winning campaigns, like This Girl Can and Join the Movement, to support targeted audiences to live more active lives, and we'll place a significant emphasis on supporting young people. This will include launching Studio You, a Netflix-style platform providing non-traditional PE lessons to help girls get active, and through the continuation of our free Secondary School Teacher Training programme to schools around the country.
There'll also be an emphasis on supporting the workforce, which has been hit so hard. We'll do this by making an investment of £5m in a 'Retrain to Retain' support package. Alongside this, we’ll run a free digital marketing programme open to anyone working in sport and physical activity.
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Transform
We’ll focus on evolving the way we operate and work – being truly dynamic, flexible and highly collaborative. This means doing things like identifying and prioritising the data, insight and learning needed to deliver Uniting the Movement, to help inform our decisions and shape what we do.
We'll create a simpler and more efficient system to support our investment processes through a new Investment Management System, and we'll develop a clear menu of investment approaches, plus simplified access to our open funding.
This goal will also see us publish our refreshed Code for Sports Governance, which sets out the levels of transparency, accountability and financial integrity required from those who ask for government and National Lottery funding and is a crucial mechanism to drive improved leadership standards, diversity and cultural change through our sector.
We'll also focus on other important organisational changes, ensuring our capacity and resource is best placed to deliver our strategy.
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Plan
We’ll be working with partners and stakeholders over the next six months to develop the implementation plan for Uniting the Movement for 2022-25, which we intend to publish later this year.
We’ll work with partners with a major role to play in implementing Uniting the Movement, including national governing bodies and Active Partnerships, to review our approach to future investment, and we'll confirm future investment levels for the majority of existing partners by the autumn.
Working with football partners, we’ll create a new multi-million investment into community football facilities, and a percentage of the work will be focused on multi-sport facilities to help other sports to benefit from the funding.
This goal will also see us play a key role in maximising the impact of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 at a grassroots level, supporting the development of facilities for the event, and regional legacy plans to encourage people to be active.
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Transition
Through all this change, we'll be continuing, adapting, reducing or ending the work of previous strategies, so everything we’re doing is aligned.
There’ll be a big focus on measurement, continuing to track the activity levels and patterns of adults and children in England with our Active Lives Adult and Active Lives Children and Young People surveys, and developing further indicators of performance against our objectives
We'll also collaborate with partners to agree the most effective ways of measuring the success of our individual investments and partnerships.
This goal will also see involve us learning from our previous strategy, Towards an Active Nation, and transition work from it to Uniting the Movement.
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