Minutes from the Games and Sports Division Meeting- 29 September 2017

Games and Sports Division Meeting

Date: Friday 29 September 2017

Time: 11:00am-13:00pm

Venue: Farrer & Co, 20/23 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3EG

PRESENT:

In the Chair – Janie Frampton (Sports Officials UK)

Deputy Chair –  James Hope-Gill (Skateboard England)

MEMBERS: Valerie Copenhagen (UK Deaf Sport), Mike Gunn (England Chess Federation), Jamie Gordon (Table Tennis England), Dave Gunn (Croquet England), Wayne Broom (NASUWT), Bede Grossmith (UK Armed Forces Board), Sally Munday (England Hockey), Logan Gray (British Blind Sport), Chester King (British Esports Association), Ken Buchan (English Petanque Association), Lewis Duncan (Lord Taverners), Vitoria Harris (Commonwealth Games England), Ann Thompson (Halliwick Swimming Therapy), Kate Nicholson (Women in Sport), Colin Nicholson (Wrestling), Brendon Pyle (Golf Foundation), Sandra Beal-Ellis (National Association of Karate and Martial Art Schools), Colin Smith (Youth Sports Trust), Chris Smith (England Handball), Phil Moore (Tchoukball UK), Kathy Morris (BRSF), Sarah Finney (BIPHA), Simon Hill (UK Ultimate), Liz Knight (Baseball Softball UK), Chris Jones (England Athletics), Mo Islam (UK Dodgeball Association), Pat Smith National Council for School Sport), Lynda Williams (Panathlon), Michelle Fulford (British Gymnastics), Alison Howard (Rounders England), Toby Manning (British GO Association), Ray Sweeney (Disability Karate), Keith Holland (British Aikido Board)

ABSENCE WITH APOLOGIES: Marcus Kingwell (AOC Sport), Peter Jacques (Mini Basketball), Nick Loader (Federation of Artistic Roller Skating), Hamish McInnes (British Shooting), Tony Allcock (Bowls England), Richard Flint (England Golf), David Pond (Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby), Chris Ratcliffe (Boccia England), David Teasdale (Institute of Groundsmanship), Karen Tonge MBE (British Para Table Tennis), Jane Montgomery (Federation of Sports and Play Associations), Nick Fellows (Clay Pigeon Shooting Association), John I’Anson (Association for Physical Education), John Boyd (Baseball Softball UK)

IN ATTENDANCE: Emma Boggis (CEO), Anne Usher MBE (Sport and Recreation Alliance - Board Member), Chantel Scherer (Director Marketing, Communications and Member Engagement), James Allen (Director of Policy Governance and External Affairs), Rob Arnott (Communications and Engagement Manager), Tom Morgan (Membership Development Officer), Aquila Burgess (Project Support Officer)

Richard Norris (Open Data Institute)

Dr Geoff Nichols (University of Sheffield)

1. CHAIRS REMARKS

The Chair (Janie Frampton – JF) welcomed everyone to the meeting and extended a special welcome to Chester King (CK) and British Esports Association for their first Games and Sports meeting. JF also eluded to the feedback forms members were given to be completed and analysed by the Alliance and how the results will feed into improving the divisional meetings. 

Kent based Dr Sandra Beale-Ellis, has been chosen by Prime Minister Theresa May to receive the 765th Points of Light award for her campaigning to get autistic children involved in sports and recreation activities. May said, ‘through your campaigning you have encouraged thousands of children with autism to get involved in sports and recreation activities outside of the classroom.

ACTION – Alliance to collate the results of feedback forms and analyse.

2. GUEST SPEAKER 

Richard Norris from the Open Data Institute spoke about the OpenActive initiative and the value of open data and how it can help drive participation in sport and recreation. Jamie Gordon (JG) of Table Tennis England provided an example of how embracing open data has helped drive participation in table tennis.

ACTION – Members who would like to find out more are invited to contact Richard directly (richard.norris@theodi.org).

OpenActive Presentation

3. ALLIANCE UPDATE

· GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force on 25 May 2018. This is a replacement for the Data Protection Act, and will look at how members use and store data. To help our members we have already produced a member briefing (to access the document, you must be logged into the members area). We are running a free one-day event at the Nottingham Conference Centre on 14 November, members can find out more information here and bookings will open on Monday 9 October.

· DUTY OF CARE

The Duty of Care in Sport review, an independent report by Baroness Grey-Thompson, considered the duty of care sport has towards its participants at both elite and grassroots level. The report was published in April 2017 and set out recommendations for Government, sports governing bodies and other stakeholders. We have produced a member briefing which can be found here, and the full report can be accessed here.

· GOOD GOVERNANCE

James Allen (JA) spoke about the fact funded national governing bodies must be compliant with the Code for Sports Governance by the end of October. She reminded members that the Alliance’s Principles of Good Governance for Sport and Recreation is designed to provide practical advice and guidance to all organisations (funded and non-funded) on how to adopt best practice in governance.

JA also reminded members that the Alliance is running a programme of events and training both online and via face to face workshops to support members with their governance. The next event in the calendar will be in Manchester on 22 November, aimed at board directors, and will focus on the practices and behaviours which help contribute to effective boards.

Additionally, members can advertise any current board vacancies on the Alliance website for free, and for more information please email jobs@sportandrecreation.org.uk. The Alliance is also gathering a pool of non-executive directors (NED) which can be made available to join your board, should you have a vacancy available. If you have recently filled a board position, but have candidates that you would like to recommend them for other non-executive position in the sector, please email aburgess@sportandrecreation.org.uk for more information.

· UK COACHING CERTIFICATE

Sport England have commissioned the Alliance to run an independent review of the UK Coaching Certificate (UKCC). The aim of the project is to see whether the UKCC is still fit for purpose in line with their new coaching plan released this year. The project is scheduled to be completed in early 2018.

· SPORTS CLUB SURVEY

The Alliance has also been commissioned by Sport England to run a sports club survey. This survey will build on our previous biennial surveys. The survey will look to determine the state of health across grassroots sport and recreation clubs and organisations, work is scheduled to start shortly so please encourage your clubs to fill out the survey when it is released.

· MEMBER BENEFITS RECAP

Tom Morgan (TM) gave a brief introduction and overview of the membership benefits. TM reminded members that all of their colleagues and staff can access the full range of benefits the Alliance offer and if they ever have any questions to contact him via phone or email (020 7976 3928 / tmorgan@sportandrecreation.org.uk).

4. MEMBERSHIP REVIEW PROJECT

Rob Arnott (RA) gave an overview of the project and the timeline. A survey was released on 2 October to which all members are urged to complete. The recommendations will be presented to the Alliance board in December.

RA then led a brainstorming session with members about the membership review project which will look to implement changes from our new strategy, to make sure the Alliance is supporting members as effectively as possible.

ACTION – members to complete online survey 

5. GUEST SPEAKER 

Dr Geoff Nichols (GN), University of Sheffield, shared his European wide research around social inclusion within sports clubs.

ACTION – Members are invited to contact Geoff directly if they have any further questions on his work (g.nichols@sheffield.ac.uk) 

Social Inclusion and Volunteering in Sports Clubs in Europe Presentation

6. AOB

No AOB was stated

7. DATE OF NEXT MEETING

Wednesday 14 February- Venue, Gateley Plc - London

Minutes from the Games and Sport Meeting - 29 September 2017