Doncaster Rovers Community Sports & Education Foundation have reason to smile today as they have been successful in their bid with Sports Legacy. This means the Sport's Foundation has received funding to expand their already successful afterschool programme to include multi-sport sessions.
The funding received will enable the Rovers in the Community coaching staff to deliver sessions in the Stainforth, Askern, Conisbrough, Denaby, Armthorpe & Balby areas. It is anticipated during the next 12 months the sports legacy backed sessions will enable over 50 new sessions to take place; this in turn should create opportunities for 5,000 new participant visits.
What is Sports Legacy?
Sports legacy is a CRT sports development initiative. They provide funding to enable high quality multi- sports sessions to take place in local ex-coalfield communities with the aims of inclusion and breaking down barriers and helping to tackle the current rise in levels of obesity and diabetes in young people from all over the borough.
Increase Community Coaching Capacity
The key to the success of the sports legacy project is the recruiting and development of local volunteers. This allows the communities to take ownership of the delivery rather than viewing it as provision. Volunteers are assigned a mentor to help their progression through the coaching levels, gaining qualifications, aswell as helping to design and deliver sessions. The emphasis is very much on the local volunteers to plan and deliver the session with outside assistance.
Sustainable Programmes
Sports Legacy is not just about creating opportunities to participate in community sport or volunteering, it's also about providing the infrastructure to support fledgling groups to take root, grow, become self supporting and be able to sustain themselves. There may be opportunities to apply for CRT grants and other fundraising support which will be accessible to the groups through our Sports Development team and partnership network.
Increase Community Cohesion and Citizenship.
CRT help local groups set up and run localised events throughout the year, bringing people together in sporting celebration. These community sporting activities are part of a wider network and groups are invited to come together for The Coalfields Junior Sports Celebration, hosted once a year by CRT. These events are a way for children, parents, youth groups, sports clubs and local stakeholders to work together for the benefit of the community.
Rovers in the Community are delighted to have received CRT backing. Community Officer Liam Scully said "We would like to thank Jill North at Sports Legacy for all her hard work and supporting us in our bid. We already have an extensive afterschool football programme and this funding will allow us to expand and create countless new sporting opportunities for young people in Doncaster."
Multi-Sports afterschool sessions will start next school term and continue into the next school year and into 2010. For further information please contact the community team on any of the following.
T: 01302 322929
E: roversinthecommunity@doncasterroversfc.co.uk
