Description

Sports Development seeks to promote opportunities available for people to take part in sports and activities for:

Fun and Enjoyment Health and well- being benefits Playing to their potential and progressing to their chosen level Reducing anti-social behaviour and incidence of crime Competitions and leagues

Sport England has long been engaged with policy development which promotes the interests of sport and recreation at regional, sub-regional and local levels. Sport England's 30 policy objectives for sport and recreation relating to: facility provision and protection, sport in the urban fringe, wider countryside and designated areas and the management of sports facilities. The following principles which the local councils, like BANES, engage with the planning system in the promotion of the interests of sport and active recreation:

Environmental sustainability Community safety Local economic viability Improving quality of life and well-being Health improvement Raising standards in schools

In assisting the development of policy at regional and sub-regional scales, Sport England has developed a range of guidance and practical tools. This section sets out the aspirations for the representation of the interests of sport, principles and key objectives which are central to ensuring that the best use is made of the potential for sport to realize direct and wider aims. Sport England are working with national governing bodies and county sport partnerships to get children and young people doing sport in their own time in their local communities and also working with further and higher education to get 300,000 students by 2012-2013 doing more sport as a major contribution to the delivery of the Sport England one million people doing more sport target. Lynda Deane the head of the Sport and Active Lifestyles Team (no longer just Sports Development) the name has changes.

The Sport and Active Lifestyles Team is keen that the contribution of these local sports clubs doesnt get overlooked and in Bath & North East Somerset there are now over 150 sports clubs offering you a choice of activities to get fit, stay fit and succeed at your chosen level. There are some facts and figures on Sports Clubs in Bath & North East Somerset:

There are 106,000 affiliated clubs serving 8m members 5.8m sports volunteers (15% of adult population) Volunteers contribute 1.2 billion hours each year to sport, equivalent to 720,000 additional full time paid workers. (Sport England research) The sporting sector makes the single biggest contribution to total volunteering in England, with 26% of all volunteers citing sport as their main area of interest.

Your Example

It my opinion I feel Sport England is the most interest to me this is the following principles will inform how Sport England seeks to engage with the planning system in the promotion of the interests of sport and active recreation:

Environmental sustainability Community safety Local economic viability Improving quality of life and well-being Health improvement Raising standards in schools

Sport England focuses on young people and is working with further and higher education to get 300,000 students by 2012-2013 doing more sport as a major contribution to the delivery of the Sport England one million people doing more sport target. Sport England has been successful in the past and in the present by developing new facilities, new playing fields and built facilities so people can play sport when ever they feel like in because the idea of sport England is to provide facilities of England. Sport England is develop and planning to go further by:

Grow: getting one million people doing more sport and working with the Youth Sport Trust to offer young people at least five hours of high quality sport a week Sustain: increasing participants satisfaction with their sporting experience, and reducing the number of young people aged 16-18 who drop out of sport

Excel: improving talent development.