Charity and Voluntary Sector
SE: Hundreds of sports playing fields across the country will be protected & improved thanks to a £10m National Lottery fund launched recently by Sport England and the Minister for Sport & the Olympics, Hugh Robertson MP.
Through Protecting Playing Fields, communities will be able to enhance local playing fields, or create new sports pitches. As part of the Places People Play mass participation legacy programme, the fund will help bring to life the inspiration and magic of a home Olympic & Paralympic Games for communities all over the country.
Applications for round one of Protecting Playing Fields will be accepted via Sport England’s website between 25 May 2011 & 6 July 2011. Anyone interested in applying should visit sportengland.org /funding for more details or call 08458 508 508. Sport England will also be running workshops in 4 cities to help potential applicants.
BHF: 60% of kids are powerless to help someone who has collapsed in the street despite 73% wanting to be able to help, a British Heart Foundation survey reveals. Working with the Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK), BHF are calling on the Government to change the National Curriculum in England to ensure all students are taught Emergency Life Support (ELS) skills which would help save a life.
DUK: The Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, Barbara Young, has helped to launch a new project in Nottingham aimed at improving healthcare and reducing the number of unplanned hospital admissions for the 12,800 people with diabetes in Nottingham.
The NIMROD (Nottingham NHS and Industry Maximising Resources and Outcomes in Diabetes) project aims to improve care for people with diabetes by identifying common factors that may have led to hospital admission, assessing improvements that could be made to current treatment guidelines and service provision.
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