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Energize Shropshire,Telford & Wrekin Impact Report 2015-16

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Chairman’s Welcome

Getting Hearts Beating Faster

The year to March 2016 has been another successful year for Energize Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin. We have continued to build on participation by our work in areas such as satellite clubs and Sportivate as well as the successful Shropshire Homes School Sports Festivals. Over the year around 80 schools have been involved, with over 2,000 people participating in Energize supported activities.

We continued to build a number of successful partnerships with organisations, such as National Citizen Service, Age UK, Enable, Shropshire Disability Network, Housing Associations, William Penny Brookes Foundation, Maninplace, Street Games, YSS, The Hive, Help2Change, The Wildlife Trust and Shropshire Youth Association. This has enabled Energize to connect local organisations with local partners and organisations who can work with and support us.

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We have supported several successful bids bringing in £262,500 of funding. In addition, the Energize Volunteer Academy recruitment drive has encouraged 45 new volunteers to join and be deployed into local sports volunteering opportunities, as well as many of the Energize volunteers successfully gaining employment.

Energize held three conferences during the year; How to Energize your Workplace; Funding Roadshow; and Women Make Sport. These have enabled us to interact with a number of local organisations which has created opportunities to reach 6,000 people as part of the Energize Your Workplace pilot project.

Energize isn’t purely about sport and invests significant amounts of time in helping people to be active and this will continue to be a significant area of work moving forwards.

These successes wouldn’t happen without the hard work and dedication of the Energize team and I would like to thank them for their unstinting commitment to the various Energize objectives. In addition, I am grateful that I am able to work with a committed Board of Trustees who dedicate their time to supporting the Energize delivery team and who provide the effective strategic direction which all successful organisations need.

David Sherratt

Chair of the Energize Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Board

Getting Hearts Beating Faster

Co-ordinating the Pathway of Opportunities for Children and Young People– so that provision and investment is even more needs and insight led and leads to more sustainable opportunities

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• We invested in 23 new satellite clubsat local secondary school sites (5 female and 7 disability specific). This has resulted in:

– 436 active participants– Part-funding of over 20 new National Governing Body of Sport based clubs

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• 620 school aged girls took part in 2 ‘This Girl Can’ events which took inspiration from Sport England’s national campaign. 56 have since participated at a sports club.

• 1088 people attended a first physical activity session funded through Sportivate. 50% of participants were not active prior to attending the new sessions and 837 completed the series of sessions.

• In winter 2016 87 different schools from across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin qualified for the Shropshire Homes School Sport Festivals (School Games county level events), compared to 50 in 2015, giving more children the opportunity to compete.

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• Over £7,000 was awarded to new Shropshire Youth Association physical activity projects, comprising:

– 10 projects – Over 200 participants – Leaders qualified

Using Sport as aVehicle for Change – to ensure greater recognition and investment for physical activity and sport projects which tackle local social issues

Energize host The Inclusively Fit Project (a consortium project) which has really gained momentum. In just the first year:

18coaches accessed a bursary to increase the activity provision for people with disabilities

21sports clubs have been supported to be more inclusive

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CASE STUDYInclusively Fit Project: Supporting a young person with Asperger’s into volunteering and employment

“I find it difficult to meet new people, gain employment and be in changing environments.

I learn so much every time I volunteer; it’s changing me and increasing my confidence.

Before I started I would get really anxious about new experiences, and whenever I met someone new I couldn’t give them any eye contact.

Through my experience as a volunteer I am now employed, working part-time as asports coach for ‘I Can 2’, which supports childrenwith disabilities”.

18coaches accessed a bursary to increase the activity provision for people with disabilities

21sports clubs have been supported to be more inclusive


We’re ‘more than sport’...We are now part of a new West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner (WMPCC) consortium of partners working together to support 16-24 year olds with challenging behaviour into positive activities. Investment from the WMPCC will enable employment of a new ‘More than Sport Officer’ in 2016-17 to deliver a more targeted approach, reaching new hard to reach audiences and measuring impact more effectively.

Energize have embarked on a journey to measure social value and are currently designing a tool to capture the impact made in improving lives, producing real

stories from local people. The tool will demonstrate the impact that Energize makes in changing lives through physical activity and sport.

£25,000 was raised to help Energize demonstrate the social impact of physical activity and sport.

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Developing andMotivating People – so that Energize is empowering a more enterprising and sustainable culture amongst staff, volunteers and local sports coaches and leaders

Over 60 coacheswere supported through the coach bursary fund,

15 of which coach disabled people, resulting in over

1,200 more people receiving coaching.

Our Energize Volunteer Academy (EVA) recruitment drive has encouraged

45 new volunteersto join and be deployed into local sports

volunteering opportunities.

Many of the EVA volunteers have gone on to

successfully gain employment.


A new ‘Women Make Coaching’ campaign launched in collaboration with the other West Midlands County Sports Partnerships with great success in the local area.

As a result:

fi fteenof these received funding

towards a qualification

twenty three

attended Energize WomenMake Coaching training

Over 60 female coacheshave been supportedthrough theircoaching journey.

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Enhancing the Partnership– so that there is a clearer partnership structure, and that we know the markets and stakeholders we wish to engage and the offers available to them

£325,863of grant funding has been brought into the county which Energize helped other local community groups to secure.

eightspecial interest forums were facilitated, including sport for development, Higher Education/Further Education providers, and playing pitch investment groups.


New partnerships were developed with:National Citizen Service

Age UK

Enable

Shropshire Disability Network

Housing Associations

William Penny Brookes Foundation

Maninplace

Street Games

YSS

The Hive

Help2Change

The Wildlife Trust

Shropshire Youth Association

Over 150 people attended 3 Energize conferences covering a range of relevant topics including:• Funding for community sport and

activities

• Supporting women to be more active and get involved in sport

• Encouraging local workplaces to consider employee health and well being


Marketing and Communications

Strategy

30volunteers,

schools and community projects were recognised

and celebrated at our annual Energize

Awards ceremony

Raising awareness with key audiences, celebrating achievements and performance


From October 2015 an average of 4 articles per month were distributed to, and featured in, local print, online and broadcast media and we experienced an increase in instances of local media contacting us for support with features.

We increased our social media activity.

On Twitter alone,this resulted in:

567 more followers

50,000 more impressions

than the same time last year

727 tweets profi ling our own and partner opportunities and activities


Financial Report


Total Income 2015/2016 £581,853

Core £200,000 (34%)

Other Sport England Programmes £275,893 (47%)

Local Authority £15,948 (3%)

Other £90,012 (16%)

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Income:Total Income 2015/2016 = £581,853 (pie chart)Core = £200,000 (34%)Other Sport England Programmes = £275,893 (47%)Local Authority = 15,948 (3%)Other = £90,012 (16%) Expenditure:Total Expenditure 2015/2016 = £559,777 (pie chart)Sta�ng (including pension, recruit, training and travel) = £336,872 (60%)Programme Delivery = £168,201 (30%)Admin (including premises, marketing, repairs, depreciation, legal, and other premises costs) = £29,560 (5%)Awards = £19,621 (4%)Governance = £5523 (1%)

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Income:Total Income 2015/2016 = £581,853 (pie chart)Core = £200,000 (34%)Other Sport England Programmes = £275,893 (47%)Local Authority = 15,948 (3%)Other = £90,012 (16%) Expenditure:Total Expenditure 2015/2016 = £559,777 (pie chart)Sta�ng (including pension, recruit, training and travel) = £336,872 (60%)Programme Delivery = £168,201 (30%)Admin (including premises, marketing, repairs, depreciation, legal, and other premises costs) = £29,560 (5%)Awards = £19,621 (4%)Governance = £5523 (1%)

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Total Expenditure 2015/2016 £559,777Staffing £336,872 (60%)(including pension, recruitment,training and travel)

Admin £29,560 (5%)(including premises, marketing,repairs, depreciation, legal,and other premises costs)

Programme Delivery £168,201 (30%)

Awards £19,621 (4%)

Governance £5,523 (1%)

2015-16 has been another busy and progressive year for Energize. The impact of our work is really growing and I would particularly like to thank the Energize team of staff and volunteers who always go the extra mile to support our local communities. Nearly all the satellite clubs we have helped deliver have a positive social outcome in addition to encouraging sedentary people to be more active. I think this is exemplified by the golf project we delivered in partnership with Shropshire Golf Centre in Telford which used the new activities as a means to reengage young people into learning and away from anti-social behaviour. As a result of this work the project was presented with a national award at the Houses of Parliament by the Minister for Sport in November last year.


A word from the Chief Executive

As a body which connects policy with delivery, Energize need to be mindful of changes to the strategic landscape. Whilst not directly connected to Europe the air of change associated with the prevailing financial climate and Brexit will certainly affect Energize in the coming years. We also have new national sport strategies from Government and Sport England as well as Childhood Obesity plans and Public Health imperatives to encourage behaviour change and extend the benefits of an active lifestyle to all. At the same time we are facing the biggest change to local authority and public sector funding that anyone can remember.

In order to influence the changes and ‘help everyone find something that makes their heart beat faster’ Energize must itself review its role and respond accordingly and I am determined that we leave no stone unturned to do this over the next year to 18 months. As you will see from our finances a significant proportion of our income comes from Sport England and so we must continue to reflect and deliver national policy going forward. However, we are also growing

our local recognition and have exciting plans to extend our impact beyond that which we had even in the last year. We are planning some exciting new partnerships with local organisations, not least with our hosts at University Centre Shrewsbury where we intend to combine their academic expertise with our community impact to inspire change. We also have some exciting plans to extend our service offer to local workplaces and delivery organisations too.

Finally we are also recruiting new expertise to our Board and I look forward to working with them and seeing our very talented staff further deliver the Energize mission to ‘improve lives through the power of physical activity and sport’.

Chris Child

Chief Executive


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