Unit 1 – AO4

Describe the aims of three national organisations involved in

the development of sport

Joseph Holland

UK SPORT

UK Sport works in partnership to lead sport in the UK to world-class

success 

• Established by Royal Charter in 1997

• Based in London

• Invests around £100 million of public funds each year

• They are funded by the National Lottery, receiving 25p from every £1 spent on the lottery.

• Governs drugs testing of athletes in the UK on a regular basis

• They work with other sporting bodies to make sure the quality of coaches are to their full potential.

• UK Sport try to get more people involved in physical exercise ahead of London 2012.

MoneyBy the start of London 2012, UK Sport will have received £1,835,000,000 (1 Billion, 825 million pounds) from the National Lottery funding which will support the Olympic and Paralympic games.

This funding will go towards the construction of the 2012 venues and also the construction of top training facilities such as the Aquatic Centre and VeloPark. It will also be used to prepare the athletes for the games with top class equipment and technology.

VeloPark

During London 2012 the Velodrome will host Track Cycling and Paralympic Track Cycling.  It will have a capacity for 6,000 - with 3,500 seats around the track and a further 2500 seats in two upper tiers.

Aquatics Centre

During the London 2012 Games it will be the venue for Diving, Swimming, Synchronised Swimming, Paralympic Swimming and the Modern Pentathlon and will have a capacity of 17,500.

3 Stages to Success• Talent – starting at the grass roots. Youngsters and athletes

at a low level who show the potential to be an Olympic standard athlete are picked up and given a heads up on their performance.

• Development – taking those athletes whose performances have suggested that they have realistic medal winning capabilities for 2012 and offering them the high class training facilities so they can progress.

• Podium - supporting athletes with realistic medal winning capabilities at the next Olympic/Paralympic Games (i.e. a maximum of four years away from the podium) 

• Over 7,000 individuals from the Great British public have applied to take part in talent identification programs such as Pitch2Podium to identify athletes with elite sporting potential.

• As a result, over 50 athletes new to the high performance system are now on Olympic development programmes, working towards success in London 2012, Sochi 2014 (Winter Olympics) and beyond.

Pitch2PodiumThe aim of the programme is to provide young football and rugby players who have been unsuccessful in securing a professional contract, with a second chance opportunity to succeed in a new Olympic sport.

• Athletes who have benefited from making the switch are as follows:

• Darren Campbell: Having played for Plymouth Argyle, returned to athletics in 1995 going on to win Olympic gold.

• Kévin Sireau: a French youth football player who swapped to track cycling and won an Olympic silver medal in Beijing.

• David Price: released by Liverpool FC and switched his efforts to boxing, going on to win Olympic bronze.

• Sir Steve Redgrave: Britain’s greatest ever Olympian profited from an early involvement in rugby before turning to rowing.

SPORT COUNCIL of WALES(SPORT WALES)

• Sport Wales is the main adviser on sporting matters to the Welsh Assembly Government

• They are responsible for distributing funds from the National Lottery to sport in Wales.  

• Sports Council for Wales’ main focus is to persuade people who take little or no exercise to become more active and to encourage people, young and old, to take part in a range of physical activities to improve their health and fitness. 

• Sport Wales’ main focus is to increase the number of people taking part in sport and physical activity. Their main priorities are:

• active young people

• active communities

• developing people

• developing places

• developing performance and excellence

There are three main areas of Sport Wales used to introduce physical activity to young people.

5 x 60

Dragon Sport

Sport in Schools

5x60• 5x60 was launched October 2006 with 27

schools in Wales.

• The Sports Council report that 98% of Wales's mainstream secondary schools have now signed up to the 5x60 scheme.

• Dragon sport is aimed at children aged 7-11

• Used in primary schools

• Supports 7 sports… Football, Rugby, Hockey, Netball, Golf, Tennis and Athletics

Sport in Schools

• Includes extra curricular activities such as football and rugby teams in schools.

• Sport in schools is a scheme which has been put in place to allow children of all ages and ability to start sport at a young age.

Free Swimming

• There are local schemes in place to allow people of all ages to become more active by taking part in swimming.

• In most places at certain times over 60’s can swim for free.

• They also offer swimming lessons to improve technique or to just keep fit.

Disability Sport Wales (FDSW)

The Disability Sport Wales National Development Programme is a joint

initiative between the Sports   Council for Wales, the Federation of Disability Sport Wales and the 22 local authorities across

Wales.

The Federation of Disability Sport Wales (FDSW) is a pan-disability sport

organisation which aims to provide and promote quality sporting and physical

activity opportunities for disabled people within Wales.

• The scheme is aimed at developing quality community based sporting and recreational opportunities for disabled people throughout Wales.

• The programme is promoted and delivered through a network of Disability Sport Wales Development Officers located across every Local Authority in Wales.

Disability Sport Wales aims to:• Create new clubs and give professional advice and

support to improve existing clubs.• Increase the number of disabled people who actively

participate in sports clubs, groups and sessions.• Improve the quality and number of coaches and

volunteers within disability sport through coach education and other systems

• Create new and further develop existing opportunities for disabled people to compete in sport at local, regional and national level.

Here are some photos of local disabled children who have taken part in sport.

Swansea City Bravehearts is a football team for disabled children, mentally or physically.

Here is a young girl with down syndrome practicing her skiing on the dry slope in Cardiff.

This woman has lost ability to use her legs, but can still take part in exercise activities.

Swansea City Bravehearts• Bravehearts is aimed at disabled children

in and around the Swansea area.• It a football club for children aged 11-17 of

all abilities. • Gary Richards has been involved with the

club from its beginning in 2000.

The types of disabilities that some of these children have are as follows, yet still are able to carry out exercise activities:

• Behavioural Difficulties, • Cerebral Palsy, • Deaf/Hard of Hearing, • Learning Disability, • Pan Disability, • Physical Disability (ambulant), • Visually Impaired

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