WEB RESOURCES
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
http://www.sportdevelopment.info/
A site that provides academic resources for sport development students, researchers and practitioners.
Professional body for sport development – the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity
http://www.sportengland.org/about_us/how_we_are_structured.aspx
Sport England – A UK Sports Council with links to national governing bodies, sports councils, research and policy information.
CHAPTER 2 SPORT POLICY
An example of how politics affects sport policy - Government shelves Labour projects worth £10.5bn: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/17/government-scraps-labour-projectsm
Linda Plowright Chief Executive of Sports Leaders UK, vision for sport and physical recreation: http://sportmk.wordpress.com/links/committee/linda-plowright-sports-leaders-uk/
Jennie Price, Chief Executive of Sport England and Jim Clarke, Regional Director of Sport England SW share their views on future direction and the challenges that lay ahead for 2008/9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4R7CaOcrkY
CHAPTER 3: DEVELOPING ‘SPORT FOR ALL’ & ADDRESSING INEQUALITY IN SPORT
The Sport England Equality Framework. The Standard is a framework for assisting sports organisations to widen access and reduce inequalities in sport and physical activity from under represented individuals, groups and communities: http://www.equalitystandard.org/
The Rugby Football League Equality and Diversity Pages - http://www.therfl.co.uk/equitydiversity
UK Sport Equality Policies and Strategies - UK Sport has developed an Equality & Diversity Strategy plus a Race Equality Scheme that will ensure it meets its legal obligations as well as establishing equality principles and policies within UK Sport and with partner organizations: http://www.uksport.gov.uk/pages/policies-and-strategies/
Sporting Equals, Race Equality in Sport Organisation - Sporting Equals exists to actively promote greater involvement by all communities that are disengaged especially the black and minority ethnic population in sport and physical activity: http://www.sportingequals.org.uk/
CHAPTER 4: COMMUNITY SPORT DEVELOPMENT
The Community Development Exchange is the national, independent membership organisation for community development. They work to ensure community development is understood by practitioners, funders and policy makers, and is widely applied for the benefit of communities: http://www.cdx.org.uk/community-development/what-community-development
Sport England background to Community Sport Hubs: http://www.sportengland.org/funding/iconic_facilities/background_to_the_fund.aspx
CHAPTER 5: PARTNERSHIPS IN SPORT
Rapid BI PESTLE analysis toolkit: http://rapidbi.com/the-pestle-analysis-tool/
National Occupational Standards for Sports Development: http://www.skillsactive.com/skillsactive/national-occupational-standards/level-3/item/3260/3260
Sport England County Sports Partnerships guide: http://www.sportengland.org/support__advice/county_sports_partnerships.aspx
Stakeholder Analysis tool: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_07.htm
CHAPTER 6 PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SCHOOL SPORT
The Youth Sport Trust: The Youth Sport Trust is an independent charity devoted to changing young people's lives through sport.
The Association for Physical Education: (afPE) is the only physical education subject association in the UK
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport: DCMS aims to help deliver the key sporting priorities in partnership with Sport England, UK Sport, UK Anti-Doping and the wider sector. These priorities are focused around creating a sporting legacy from the Olympic and Paralympic Games
www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/sport
CHAPTER 7 SPORT AND HEALTH
Department of Health Physical Activity Website: http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/category/policy-areas/public-health/physical-activity-2/
US Health Policy Gateway: http://ushealthpolicygateway.wordpress.com/payer-trade-groups/health-promotion-disease-prevention/physical-activity-and-fitness/
Professor of Sport in Society, Mike Weed, explores what should be recommended in relation to physical activity and sport: http://profmikeweed.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/physical-activity-and-sport-what-should-we-recommend/
The Home of Self Determination Theory: http://www.selfdeterminationtheory.org/
CHAPTER 8: RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPING SPORT
The extent of the task of achieving step changes in the participation of the nation are highlighted by Sport England’s Active People Survey. Sport England (2012c) Places People Play: delivering a mass participation legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, London: Sport England. [Available at]
http://www.sportengland.org/research/active_people_survey/active_people_survey_6.aspx
Lottery Funding Sources from Sport England – these are wide ranging sources with a myriad of objectives covering mass participation, facilities and bespoke community defined needs.
http://www.sportengland.org/funding/get_funding.aspx
CHAPTER 9: VOLUNTARY SPORTS CLUBS AND SPORT DEVELOPMENT
The bigger National Governing Bodies have sections on their web sites on resources and advice for volunteers. For example, the England and Wales Cricket Board has sections on volunteers and club programmes and Clubmark in the ‘development’ section.
Runningsports offers an extensive range of advice to volunteers in sports clubs, including practical case studies.
The Sport and Recreation Alliance offers advice on volunteer management at:
http://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/smart-sport/people/volunteers
The results of the 2009 sports club survey and the Red Card to Red Tape 2011 report are in the campaigning section of the web site.
The Sports Volunteering Research Network brings together national governing bodies (NGB) of sport and recreation and academic researchers interested in sports volunteer research to share knowledge and best practice. Presentations made at meetings of the Sport Volunteering Research Network are on the SARA web site at: http://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/campaigning/policy-areas/community-sports-clubs/sports-volunteering-research-network
CHAPTER 10: SPORT DEVELOPMENT AND SPORTS COACHING
Description and details of the coaching activity of sport development initiatives may be obtained from national governing organisation sites such as
Critical interpretation of initiatives and coaching may be interpreted from
CHAPTER 11: DISABILITY AND SPORT DEVELOPMENT
English Federation of Disability Sport is the national body for disabled people in sport and physical activity throughout England. The charity aims to increase opportunities at all levels of participation: http://www.efds.co.uk/page.asp?section=1437§ionTitle=Resources
Parasport is a joint initiative between the British Paralympic Association (BPA) and the professional services firm Deloitte. Parasport aims to make it easier for members of the public to take up disability sport by providing information about sports and sporting opportunities in local areas: http://www.parasport.org.uk/
Ability v Ability is an Educational web site resource to support the use of Paralympics in schools and the curriculum it relates to both the Paralympic moment and the British team in the coming 2012 games. It is a cross curricular resource in partnership with the NASUWT and British Paralympic Association: http://www.abilityvability.co.uk/
CHAPTER 12: RESEARCHING AND EVALUATING SPORT DEVELOPMENT
The Higher Education Academy Network for hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism provides an introduction to useful research resources:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/hlst/resources/researchgateway
The Research Methods Knowledge Base, produced by Professor William Trochim, Cornell University.
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/
The Social Research Association on ethics and researcher safety:
http://www.the-sra.org.uk/guidelines.htm
Monitoring and evaluation manual prepared by Professor Fred Coalter:
http://www.sportanddev.org/toolkit/?uNewsID=17
CHAPTER 13: SPORT DEVELOPMENT AND THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES
http://www.sportdevelopment.org.uk/ This is an extremely well organised and content rich sport development portal for academics and students, which includes Olympic- related studies.
http://www.sportanddev.org/ This is the leading international sport and development platform which boosts a truly international membership and offers a range of resources including its own You Tube channel.
http://www.uksport.gov.uk/uk-sport-international This is the UK Sport international section which provides examples of the UK approach to international sport development as well as case studies on the Inspire programme, which is directly related to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
http://www.parasport.org.uk/default.asp This is a very well-organised web platform which specifically supports initiatives and provides services in arts and sport for people with disabilities.
http://getset.london2012.com/en/home This is the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games dedicated website to the involvement of UK schools with the Olympics. It provides a range of resources, case studies and useful ideas for various sport development programmes.
CHAPTER 14: INTERNATIONAL SPORT AND DEVELOPMENT
Sport and development
International Platform on Sport for Development and Peace: The Platform is a website dedicated entirely to 'Sport and Development'. It is an online resource and communication tool: http://www.sportanddev.org/
Development
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a leading global charity for research, teaching and information for international development: http://www.ids.ac.uk/