Fit for the Olympics

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LCSN Funding the bigger picture How to be a
Good Supplier

Grant Aitken Head of Culture
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Introduction

• sport and culture is about ambition it helps to
  define your place
• sport and culture makes a significant
  contribution to meeting wider objectives
• its our health policy,
• its our education policy,
• it our ASB policy, its
• how to be a good supplier networking,
  reputation management, good governance
• Rationale and background to introducing
  commissioned services in Newham
• Our expectations
• The lessons you are learning from this approach
• 7 pillars of wisdom

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Background

• Funding is competitive internal and external
• Credit Crunch will make it more competitive
• So what will give you the edge and what is your
  USP?
• Consortia you cant do everything dont try
  and do everything
• But first why do Newham do sport?

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Aspiration and a way to communicate this
aspiration to residents
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Legacy Aquatics Centre
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The challenge

• How to make a place which is
• Viable and attractive
• Sustainable in every sense
• Relevant to local people
• Relevant to those who visit
• Compatible with adjoining development and
  communities
• Raises profile and status of East London

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Stop Moving the Goals Posts!!

• Comprehensive Area Assessment CAA looks at how
  well local services are working together to
  improve the quality of life for local people.
• It is about people and places.
• It will give people a snapshot of life in their
  local area each year.
• It will help local services improve quality of
  life in their area.
• It will help people understand if they are
  getting value for money from their local
  services.
• Its about partnerships statutory and non
  statutory
• Its about local priorities Newham has seven
• Spending wisely
• Better Environment
• Feeling and Being Safer
• Active and Inclusive Community
• Better Health and Well-Being
• Investing in Young People
• Business Growth and Better Access to Jobs

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Whos setting the pace?

• Jenny Price said Sport England is confident
  that, by prioritising sport, local authorities
  will make a significant contribution to our new
  strategic goals of ensuring that a growing number
  of people play sport and that everyone who takes
  part has a quality experience but is this why
  we are doing sport?.
• We would all like to be part of a safe,
  prosperous and healthy community. A community
  where everyone has the right to the same
  opportunities, freedom and respect. Somewhere we
  can be proud of. (DCLG)
• More than half the new Local Area Agreements
  (LAAs) now include adult participation in sport
  (and physical activity NI8). BUT - Comprehensive
  Spending Review (CSR07), the Government announced
  a new single set of 198 national indicators we
  have a role in about 13 of these and led 4

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Why do we do sport and culture?

• Community Engagement/ empowerment
• Employment/employability
• Local Business benefits
• Sporting activity/prowess
• Healthier lifestyles
• Healthier communities
• Cultural life/opportunities
• Image and aspiration

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Our outcomes

• Increasing participation in sport and healthy
  living
• Volunteering - before, during and after the Games
• Raise participation in local cultural activities
• Generating tourism and boosting the local economy
• Strengthening a sense of belonging and community
  cohesion through community events and especially
  reaching out to young people
• Enhancing the reputation of local government
• Catalyst to help achieve councils existing
  targets

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5 Borough Sport Activity

• Political commitment to work across Boroughs
• Sport and Activity high on the agenda
• Recognition of local community use critical to
  Park venue business planning we influence
• Taking Pro Active East legacy plan as starting
  point
• Cross borough focus on
• 7 Sports in the park (swimming, cycling,
  athletics, tennis, hockey, football, basketball)
• Disability sport
• Events strategy
• Facility Planning
• Pre Games Training Camps and Games time training
  venues

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5 Borough Sport Activity

• Aim to add value to CSPAN / Borough work
• Working with CSPANs critical to success
• Cross Borough work should bring additional
  resources
• Route to working across Boundaries
• Ask that when CPAN considers funding, programmes
  etc that consider what cross Borough work could
  add
• Suggest
• Standing item on CSPAN agenda quarterly?
• 5 Borough CSPAN chairs involved in shaping cross
  Borough work

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Lessons Learnt

• Prepare now by going on training on tendering
• Talk to 2nd tier organisations or national ones
  to check their support services
• Prepare now by pulling together necessary
  underpinning documents, its a different process
• Answer all the questions and prepare a realistic
  budget

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

• Be the best
• Know your customer
• Know their customers
• Network, communication, leadership
• Consortia
• Be enthusiastic
• Know your product financial, legislative,
  operational

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Questions Comments
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