ANNUAL REVIEW 2015-2016
HOOKEDONSPORT Two years ago, in response to the financial challenges facing local government in Wales Cardiff City Council entered into a formal partnership with the University through Cardiff Met Sport. The benefits to the City Council focused on the need to safeguard the development of sport across the City and further develop their relationship with the University. For Cardiff Met Sport it presented an opportunity to further develop and expand on the development work delivered through the successful Junior Sports Academies programme; have direct control over the creation and deployment of students to work placements. For the University it increased brand visibility across the city. This type of partnership is unique in Wales, and across Britain only Southampton Solent have developed a relationship that equates to what is currently being delivered. The funding for the project comes from Sport Wales to the City Council as part of the Wales Community Development strategy, Disability Sport Wales and the City Council. The University provides the accommodation and management function through Cardiff Met Sport. Now about to enter its third year of organisation, the partnership has matured along with the eighteen members of staff employed to deliver the City’s Whole Sport Plan. In particular it has delivered: The Cardiff School Games –one of the largest centrally coordinated school competitions in Britain with over 65 competitions in 18 different sports. Wales’s first promotion and delivery plan to encourage women and girls to increase their engagement in physical activity under the brand of Girls Together Over one hundred work experience opportunities for Cardiff Met students
The Award winning Summer Holiday Enrichment Programme In collaboration with Cardiff Council’s School Meal Division and Food Cardiff and Cardiff and Vale Health Board Volunteer Sports Bureau with over 3500 volunteers registered and providing event support to major events in the City such as Velathon, Rugby World Cup Fanzone, Cardiff Half Marathon & IAAF World Half Marathon. A comprehensive Disability and Inclusive Sport offer with 2061 disabled people regularly attending disability sport or inclusive sports sessions Sport Cardiff is now looking to the future with a focus on developing physical literacy community provision, further expansion of the Cardiff Games to include more sports, more venues and more participants; developing the Coaching and Workforce offer, through the launch of the Coach Academy for Cardiff Met Students showing high potential as sports coaches; utilising the partnership with the School of Sport to undertake research to evaluate of the impact of our work.
SPORTFORCHILDREN Sport Cardiff aims to provide every young person in Cardiff access to sporting opportunities. The programmes are designed to ensure that any child from any background, location or community can access fun sporting activities in a safe and secure environment. It is our key purpose to help young people establish and maintain a healthy lifestyle and to develop talented individuals to reach their full potential. Sport Cardiff currently works with 95 schools which includes all 19 secondary schools in the Cardiff area and focuses on a range of programmes, including the Cardiff Games, students placements and before, lunch and after school clubs. The programmes deliver a wide range of activities, both traditional and non-traditional sports including: Netball Football Cheerleading Cricket Athletics
Our ambition is for young people who attend our school sessions to go on to develop their potential at local club or community provision. 2015-16 saw over 2600 community opportunities for young people to access across the City, in addition to the 350 Club opportunities that are available.
2015 School Sport Survey 47% of young people in Cardiff hooked on sport Over 40,000 young people engaged in Sport Cardiff programmes
Basketball Dance Judo Golf Gymnastics
Over 220,000 attendances
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CaSEStudieS Maes Y Coed Sport Provision A sporting activities programme for children aged 4-16 in Maes-y -Coed Community Centre. Sports involved in the programme - Gymnastics, basketball, girls football, netball, cricket, tennis, cheerleading. Trampolining, football, table tennis. The North Regional Sport Board found that there was huge demand for after school activities within the local community. This came from consultation with local residents and schools. A successful Sport Wales development grant application was submitted for £10,000 to purchase equipment and train local volunteers to become coaches. The project has made a massive impact on the area and has seen over 2,300 visits to the centre to take part in the sports sessions in the first 20 weeks of activity.
Pentrebane Community Engagement Pentrebane Zone has just been taken over by local community members in a ‘Trust’ capacity. As a result of this, we have supported them through a Community Chest application to pay for specialist sports equipment and coaching qualifications to upskill volunteers, so that they can run sustainable activities at the Centre for the local community. As a direct result of being awarded the Community Chest grant, we have been able to put on Easter activities for the local young people and there will be a sustainable sports club at the zone, organised by volunteers. The project has so far engaged 12 young people from the Pentrebane area, who would previously not been engaged in any physical activity. We have had interest from a few local people who would like to be upskilled so that they can deliver sports sessions at the Centre, thus making the sessions sustainable. 2
WISP Judo Roy Court at WISP Judo has been delivering inclusive Judo sessions in Cardiff for over 30 years. Since retiring Roy has worked hard to provide inclusive opportunities for all through Judo. With the support of the Sport Cardiff Team based in the East of the City, WISP Judo is now running a Centre of Excellence with over 50 participants a week attending. The club has seen a significant increase in membership from disadvantaged communities. Work is underway to recruiting more volunteers, some of whom are now taking their coaching badges.
“thank you for your endless patience in teaching Angharad how to do a forward roll safely. Her confidence has grown tremendously through the Judo classes & she doesn't say ‘i can't’ like she used to”. Parent
South East Gymnastics Project Willows High School Willows High School is a school that has historically never attended a Cardiff Games competition. Through the partners at the Regional Sports Board it was identified that a number of girls attending Willows High have never had an opportunity to attend a gym club due to lack of confidence, and awareness of the opportunities that exist and the cost to take part. Officers in the South East met with Somersault Gym Club who offered to run sessions for free over a 6 week block, ending with the Cardiff Games competition. The project had a huge impact, not only on the girls’ gymnastics ability but also on their confidence as well as their communication skills. At the beginning of the 6 week block one of the girls struggled to forward roll. The same girl was comfortably performing a floor routine by the end of the project. 3 of the girls placed 3rd in the Cardiff Games event and went on to represent Cardiff in the finals held at Sport Wales.
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CaRDIffGAmeS Feedback from schools and teachers has been extremely positive and supportive The Cardiff Games was established in 2012 as an Olympic and Paralympic legacy project to encourage young people to compete in friendly, age and ability appropriate competitions. Now in its fourth year the Games have gone from strength to strength. We continue the partnership with Cardiff University as official competition partner of the Cardiff Games. This year the Cardiff Games has included 66 competitions across 18 sports utilising 20 venues across the City. Providing opportunities for Girls and Boys age 6 - 16 years from all Secondary and Primary schools with the addition of the Vale of Glamorgan High Schools.
Highlights: 8 league tables (including an inclusive league table) 19 / 19 Secondary Schools Engaged 7 / 8 Vale Secondary Schools Engaged 8 schools engaged in the inclusive league table 70 / 97 primary schools engaged 6783 Children & young People engaged 20 delivery partners This year we have had new competitions in the following sports: Skiing – Primary & Secondary Indoor Rowing Gymnastics Climbing Fitness 4
Due to the demand for the primary school football and netball competitions, the approach was taken to run regional competitions to enable more schools and therefore more pupils to engage with the Cardiff Games at a local level. The Coordinators and Activators organised the regional competitions. The top two schools from each area progressed through to the City wide final. It has proved a popular format with plans to increase the regional competitions across more sports next year.
Benefits of the Cardiff Games: Reduced the burden on teachers to create regular fixtures. Increase the self-confidence and belief in young people that they can achieve. More pupils competing and representing their schools year on year. Stronger relationship between Sport Cardiff and the local schools by opening up communication channels and increasing opportunities. Increased number of links with local organisations and sports clubs. Signpost pupils to NGB talent ID programmes. Reports of improved behavior by pupils who want to attend future competitions.
Llanedeyrn Primary school Llanedeyrn Primary School is one of the success stories of this year’s Cardiff Games. Having never attended competitions in previous years, they have attended every competition to date in this school year. Bev Knuckey, Deputy Head Teacher at the School, spoke about the impact of the Cardiff Games on their pupils:
“For us as a School, we have seen our pupils grow in confidence - from arriving and looking around them in awe at others' sporting prowess to enjoying some of the exciting venues in which we have played sport. to be able to read, share and promote the sporting quotes seen on the surroundings of the Sport Wales National Centre with our pupils has been an astonishing opportunity and one that they, and we as accompanying staff, will not forget. Behaviour and confidence have improved and this is as a direct result of their participation in the Cardiff Games.
One of our eleven year olds won his first ever medal in the gymnastics competition and has worn it ever since; one child gained a Gold medal, discovering an aptitude for badminton previously unknown; while many pupils who may not ever have been selected to represent our School have been able to participate in an external sporting event for the first time through multi Sports. Our staff have worked closely with the North Officers of Sport Cardiff, who have supported our Sports development Strategy by providing coaches, resources and by organising opportunities for our pupils to see sports in action at places such as Cardiff met. We have benefited from their expertise and passion and look forward to working with them next year on Phase 2 of our Strategy. Sport is often the lesson that is missed when other subjects need additional time. As a result of our participation in the Cardiff Games, sport is now central to our pupils' wellbeing and is beginning to impact upon our pupils' standards and confidence giving them the basis of the resilience that they will need throughout their lives.'' 5
COaCHING&WORKfORCE The Coaching Workforce programme for 2015/16 has continued to expand with an extended student placement offer that has seen over 100 placement opportunities for Cardiff Met students across the city supporting Sport Cardiff initiatives and events. This year has also seen Sport Cardiff supporting the workforce at several major events, including the Velothon, Cardiff Triathlon, Gemau Cymru, Cardiff Half Marathon, Rugby World Cup Fanzone, Sport Relief, and IAAF World Half Marathon. These events, combined with other community based volunteering opportunities have seen the contribution of over 4,000 volunteer hours and 400+ volunteers engaged. The Sport Cardiff VSB site has undergone some extensive developments which has seen it merge with the SportsHubCardiff.com to create a one stop shop for volunteering, coaching, clubs, and training. This development will hopefully drive up traffic to the site, which saw approx. 7,000 visitors making approx. 33,000 page views in the past 12 months. Meanwhile, the original VSB site received approx. 9,000 visitors and approx. 35,000 page views, totalling a combined online impact of 16,000 visitors, and 68,000 page views. The coaching programme for 2015/16 saw 3,600 coached hours delivered on Sport Cardiff programmes with 48 coaches deployed and 292 people receiving training. A new Coaching Bursary scheme was launched which invested in the development and training of 10 talented coaches who support community sport in Cardiff. In total the Coaching & Workforce programme impacted on approx. 17,000+ people.
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CLuBdevelOPmeNt Key achievements 2015-2016 Supported 12 clubs to access specific mentoring support via Sported Clubs Programme Eight new clubs have achieved insport accreditation this year, totaling eleven in Cardiff £100,059 was invested in sports clubs and community organisations via Community Chest An additional £30,429 was invested in groups specifically tackling inequalities in sport opportunities Just Ask club drop in sessions were launched in the South East of the City
Club feature: Rhiwbina Squash Club Rhiwbina Squash Club was awarded the insport Club of the month accolade for March due to their proactive approach to inclusive sport provision achieving level silver. The club provides squash lessons for disabled people and wanted to further extend this provision. This is highlighted as Rhiwbina are the first Squash club in Wales to achieve insport as a well as achieving ribbon, bronze and silver in a short period of time. Rhiwbina Squash Club’s insport Lead Officer, Richard Plenty, said “The difference insport has made to Rhiwbina has been tremendous as it has encouraged all our members to be more open to anyone with disabilities to get involved in squash. It has also made us better as coaches as it puts us out of our comfort zone.” For other clubs who wanted to get involved in insport Plenty state “My advice to any club would be don't focus on what someone can't do and focus on what they can do.” Rhiwbina Squash and Racketball club has also opened an additional court which is wheelchair accessible and Rhiwbina alongside Squash Wales was the first squash club to feature at the 2015 Wheelchair Sports Spectacular.
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Loyalty Card Initiative A new Loyalty Card scheme has been piloted with two clubs in the City to encourage more young people to join their community club following engagement in sport in the school setting. Cardiff City Table Tennis Club and Dance Fit Cardiff have both agreed to pilot the scheme and are benefiting from new members. The card looks similar to a ‘coffee card’ and you collect stamps for attending a club session just like you would each time you buy a coffee and get your card stamped. Both clubs have provided a prize as an incentive for filling up their cards with stamps. Prizes include a free t-shirt, 1-2-1 coaching session or a year’s free membership. The prize is specific to the club. Cardiff City Table Tennis Club have gained 15 new members and Dance Fit Cardiff community sessions have seen over 20 young people join as a result and attend regularly.
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DISaBILITYSPORt& iNCluSiveSPORT Key achievements 2015-2016 Celts Wheelchair Basketball Club won Club of the Year at the Nation Radio Sports Awards following an undefeated 14 game season in the National League and gaining promotion Partnership with Rookwood Hospital to attend active wheelchair user clinics to talk to people about sports opportunities available. 581 participants attended the 13th Wheelchair Sports Spectacular at NIAC. John Prosser was one of those participants and after trying rowing he joined Llandaff Rowing Club. He went on to win a silver medal at the British Indoor Rowing Championships just a matter of months later. John was also selected to represent the UK along with Cardiff Celts Wheelchair Basketball club member Lee Matthews. John returned with a Gold and Silver medal, and Lee was a part of the Wheelchair Basketball team who also won a Silver medal. Heather Sargent from Rebounders Club won the Nation Radio “Disability Sports Coach of the Year” award following many years of dedication to disability trampolining and rebound therapy. 2061 disabled people regularly attending disability sport or inclusive sports sessions in Cardiff. There are 244 coaches delivering those sessions, supported by 262 volunteers. Of that workforce, 12 of the coaches and 44 of the volunteers are disabled.
Wheelchair Basketball What? Working with Cardiff Met School of Sport a student placement opportunity was created to develop the Wheelchair Basketball offer at the University. The student undertook the role of Higher Education Wheelchair Basketball Officer and developed weekly sessions at Cardiff Met for students. This project helped to raise the profile of inclusive sport within the University bringing disabled and nonparticipants together to create Cardiff Met’s first Wheelchair Basketball team who went on to compete in the University Championships in Worcester in March, coming a credible 7th out of 16 Universities. Impact? Raising the profile of inclusive sport within Cardiff Met Art & Sport students - Male & Female Strong partnership approach - Sport Cardiff, School of Sport, Archers Basketball, Cardiff Celts Wheelchair Basketball Club, DSW New University team established
Woodlands Special School What? Woodlands is a Special School based in Ely who are currently running a variety of extra-curricular school clubs working in partnership with Sport Cardiff such as Judo, Street Dance, Boccia and Swimming. Street dance was part funded by Sport Cardiff and the other half by the pupils for a 10 week programme which was very popular. Next term is going to be completely funded by the pupils. Woodlands will perform a showcase dance at the Cardiff Games Dance event Impact? Overcoming challenges to after school provision for a special school such as transport. Pupils are having the same opportunities as mainstream schools to be a part of a sports club.
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COMMuNITYPROJeCtS City & South EGH Judo In a partnership formalised between EGH, Saeed Ebrahim (The Butetown Youth Pavilion Manager), and Sport Cardiff, a satellite Judo club was set up from the success of the summer programme with EGH Judo club. The session is now a sustainable club session with an average of 20 local children aged 4-11. The club is now affiliated with the WJA and can conduct grading’s as well as compete against other Welsh judo clubs.
South West Ely Hub Sports Club Ely & Caerau Hub Sports Club is a project designed to engage with teenagers and older school children. Traditionally this a perennial problem for libraries - how to engage with teenagers and help boost their literacy skills; especially when this age group often view libraries as uncool, or dull, boring places they only use to get free Wi-Fi or to charge their tablets. Working closely with Sport Cardiff the Sports Club developed a scheme to entice young adults into the library, to engage them in activities they are interested in and introduce them to the wider offers of the library service through a vehicle they enjoy and want to do over and over again. The Sports Club became very popular very quickly, and the library has reported that more books are being read, homework topics studied and the computers being used productively whilst teenagers wait for their turn to play games. 10
A competition was held in December which was attended by 14 children. Four girls allowed for a separate boys and girls tournament. The library organised, advertised and hosted the event. Sport Cardiff arranged for a full sized table, two trophies, 14 medals and four bats as prizes. The success of the initial set up of the club resulted in a donation of two full size table tennis tables, 8 bats, four pop-up nets, 200 balls and one robotic serving machine from TTAW to kick-start a separate Table Tennis Club. A donation in kind valued at over £400. The separate club became affiliated and now runs at the same time as the Sports Club in one of the bookable rooms. In March, the project was nominated for a Marketing Excellence Award where it won Joint Marketing Project of the Year in partnership with the Ely Hub.
SHEP project The School Holiday Enrichment Programme (SHEP) is a multi-agency pilot in Cardiff to provide good quality meals and sporting provision to children living in areas of social deprivation in Cardiff. Through opening schools, it aims to assist the city meeting its commitment to reducing childhood poverty levels, enhance children’s quality of life and reduce inequalities in health and learning loss during the summer holiday period. Facilitated by Food Cardiff, a partnership between City of Cardiff Council Education Catering, Sport Cardiff – Cardiff Met and Cardiff and Vale UHB (Public Health Nutrition and Dietetic Department and Public Health Team) resulted in the development of a program which was delivered in partnership with schools and community groups across 5 settings in the Community First area of Cardiff engaging over 100 children and families. PS100 health & nutrition awards winners at the Cost Sector Awards 2016.
GIRLStOGetHeR This year has seen the Women and Girls initiative take significant shape. A great deal of time has been spent on creating the marketing behind the Girls Together campaign and a successful launch event took place on 8th March 2016 as part of the celebrations for International Women’s day. A team of 4 ambassadors and 12 role models is supporting the campaign and a timetable of activities is being created in partnership with NGB’s, local clubs and businesses.
Running A beginners running group was established in the South East of the City with 15 ladies running once a week with trained leaders and arranging additional evenings to run through the social network they have built. The group started in September 2015 aiming to run 1K per week and within 6 months they have excelled to running 8K at least once a week and half of the group completed the St David’s 10K run with other members participating in the 5K event.
BeatBall In partnership with DanceFit Cardiff and through funding received from the Welsh Football Trust Regional Investment scheme the BeatBall product has been created. BeatBall consists of fitness, dance and football fused together and delivered entirely to music. Since November 2015 over 3000 children have had access to BeatBall and 2 festivals have taken place for children age 7-11 years. In 2016-17 we hope to train local people to deliver the sessions within their community and encourage community hubs and leisure centres to take on the provision to make it sustainable. We expect the number of community hubs to double and plan more events as part of the BeatBall provision.
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NaTIONRAdiOSPORTSAWARdS
This year we were able to continue to work with Nation Radio as sponsor of the Nation Radio Sports Awards. With a record number of nominations and some outstanding achievements in sport in the City, the setting at the SSE Swalec stadium was perfect to celebrate the sporting success. We are delighted to feature the work of Steve Khaireh, the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work within the Butetown, Riverside and Grangetown Area of the City. 12
MOvINGFORWARdS Our mission remains to provide Opportunities for all through Sport, and for the next four years we will be working towards engaging as many people as possible in sport in the city. This ranges from participating to coaching and volunteering, general administration to board member, new to sport and returning to sport. We want to raise awareness of the Sport Cardiff brand so we are recognised as the ‘one stop shop’ for Sport in the City. Our priority areas of work, which include Children & Young People; Competitions, Coaching & Workforce and Club Development will aim to increase the number of young people engaged and Hooked on Sport. The Girls Together campaign will continue to address the gender imbalance and increase the number of opportunities for females of all ages and abilities to enjoy sport and physical activity. The Your Sport, Your Way Survey is also addressing the needs and desires of the disabled population of Cardiff. The results of this survey will assist us in shaping a more robust offer for disability and inclusive sport in the City.
KEY PROJECTS TO LOOK OuT fOR: Physical literacy Training community members to deliver Just ask More opportunities for Cardiff Sports Clubs to engage to access more support Coach academy Developing talented students as coaches to assist with community activities Girls Together More opportunities to attend Girls Together sessions. Research utilising the research opportunities within the University to measure the impact of programmes and where further intervention could be beneficial. Summer Holiday Enrichment Programme (SHEP) Roll out to more areas of the City and Nationally across Wales.
Contact us www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/sport-cardiff sportcardiff@cardiffmet.ac.uk 029 2020 5286 @SportCardiff Sport Cardiff
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