Burnley Community Sports Awards
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Burnley Community BurnleySports Community Awards Sports Awardssponsored by Coach Community Club Community School of the Year of the Year of the Year Young Volunteer Rising Star Community Volunteer of the Year Burnley Community Sports Awards aim to recognise and celebrate the contributions and achievements of local people and communities Welcome to sport, physical activity, and community development. The awards pay tribute to those who show dedication at a range of levels or those who work tirelessly to support individuals or community clubs, for the of the Year love of the sport or their community. Vicki Taylor Brian Fenn Special Recognition Community Award Award Health Champion Award Your Host Your Organiser Tony Livesey Tony Livesey is host of a late night discussion show on BBC Five Live. Prior to this he fronted the BBC Radio Lancashire breakfast show, and was the Sports Team Editor for BBC’s North West Tonight. Tony is the Burnley Council’s Sport and Play Development team works to former Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport. encourage and develop sport and play opportunities, offering training, support with club and volunteer development and organising events. Tony has appeared on over 100 TV shows on all the major channels. Dedicated staff work closely with community groups, partner agencies He presented the game show Traitor on BBC 2 which was nominated and local sports clubs to access funding and maximise opportunities to for a Golden Rose at Montreux, and he has written and presented two participate in sport, play and physical activity across the borough. The major documentaries for BBC2, Crumpet and Beefcake. He has been unit also has specialised coaches and play workers who deliver activities a regular panellist on Have I Got News For You, as well as guesting in community and school settings. on Never Mind The Buzzcocks and 29 Minutes of Fame on BBC1 - alongside Matt Lucas and Jo Brand. He is one of the more prominent supporters of Burnley Football Club. Your Sponsors PhysioFusion : Event Sponsor Copifax : Sponsor of Coach Of the Year Physiofusion provides primarily physiotherapy, but also Copifax are experts in providing business equipment and associated therapies, such as massage, podiatry, counselling, services to customers, primarily within the North of England nutrition and Pilates to help improve the health and well-being and have supplied and supported hardware, software and of patients in the private sector. Our primary aim is to offer associated services to organisations throughout the UK since care that exceeds patient’s expectations; we offer flexible clinic 1979. We guarantee an efficient delivery service for machines, times including evenings and weekends, and have a range of consumables and manufacturer parts. Exceeding customer specialists providing treatments for a wide variety of conditions, expectations is something that we do naturally at Copifax. from back / neck pain and sports injuries, to gait analysis, stroke Our team has all the relevant knowledge and understanding rehabilitation and acupuncture. to ensure that you make the right choice for your business, whatever the size that it may be. Aircelle LTD : Sponsor of Health Champion Award Burnley Play Partnership : Sponsor of Young Volunteer of the Year Aircelle Ltd. has activities in aerospace, defence and security. Aircelle is a global leader in the manufacture of engine nacelles Burnley Play Partnership is a group made up of representatives and components. Every minute of every day, aircraft around the from the public, private and voluntary sectors who all have globe are flying with products manufactured by Aircelle. The a vested interest in children’s play. The partnership aims to nacelles and components that are designed, engineered and improve the quality and quantity of children’s play opportunities manufactured at the Burnley production facility are key elements in the borough. Any groups delivering or wanting to deliver of a jet engine propulsion system. They are crucial to the safety children’s activities can come to the Play Partnership for of flight, and contribute to the efficient, environmentally friendly advice, support & guidance. For further information visit www. operation of some of the world’s leading airliners, regional burnleyplaypartnership.co.uk or call 01282 664439. aircraft and business jets. Surridge Sports : Sponsor of Community club Volunteer Burnley : Sponsor of Community of the Year Volunteer of the Year Surridge cricket bats came to exist in 1867 and Percy Stuart Volunteer Burnley is a group of young people who have come Surridge, started repairing old cricket bats and selling them in together to promote and develop volunteering opportunities his town. This was the start of Stuart surridge & Co Limited. The for young people. The group is a great way of making new company began to grow and by the 1950’s the brand had been friends, developing skills and having a say in the way sport and passed on to Percy Surridge’s son and then on to his grandson, play in Burnley caters for young people and young volunteers. Stuart Surridge. Stuart Surridge & Co Ltd started to move into If you want get involved please contact the Sport and Play others areas of the sporting world and soon began developing Development team on 01282 664427 or emailwrashid@burnley. other equipment including Hockey sticks, Tennis rackets and gov.uk footballs. The Surridge brand continues to move from strength to strength, taking on new challenges and moving in more directions. Kim Sharples Coach Kim is a specialised level 3 Gymnastics coach who has been delivering coachingCommunity programmes for over 7 years at various Club levels. Kim currently Community School delivers a successful coaching in schools programme and is also head of the Year gymnastics coach at St Peters Leisure Centre and Burnley Gymnastics Club. of the Year Funded by Sportof England the and English Year Gymnastics Kim delivers a Key We are looking for a particularly dedicated or outstanding coach Stage 1 gymnastics programme, which not only teaches children gymnastics, but also helps school teachers develop their skills and who has worked with a team or club or community to improve it. confidence in teaching the sport themselves. Nik Tucker Michael Heavican Nik is a Level 3 boxing coach who has helped develop the sport Michael coaches the under 14s Fulledge Colts Junior football team dramatically over the last three years in Burnley, both as a self and attends various FA accreditation courses in his own time in order employed coach delivering projects, and also as a dedicated volunteer to develop his skills. Michael is loyal, passionate and energetic in his with Sandygate Amateur Boxing Club. approach to raising standards and behaviours in junior football. Nik has fostered an atmosphere of discipline and comradeship with Michael is an unpaid volunteer coach for Fulledge Colts and also young people of all ages and backgrounds and he has made a big assists with sporting activities at a local Burnley Primary difference through increasing participation in schools and in clubs. School. Michael has alsoRising led the club to be Star Community Volunteer Young Volunteer involved in fundraising activities for Nik has also set up a women’s boxing group which attracts over twenty local and global appeals. boxers every Tuesday evening. of the Year of the Year Vicki Taylor Brian Fenn Special Recognition Community Award Award Health Champion Award Burnley Tornados American Coach Community Club CommunityFootball Club School The club is one of only a few clubs in the sport across Lancashire. of the Year The club providesof athe junior coaching Year structure and offers a unique of the Year opportunity to take part in the UK’s fastest growing sport. The club offers flag tag and full contact Grid Iron style opportunities. We are looking for a club that feels it has Burnley Tornados American Football Club has made a difference achieved a great deal over the last year. by introducing a new sport to Burnley, however its most notable achievement has been to become only the third American Football Club in the UK to become ClubMark accredited, and the first outside London. Burnley Cricket Club Burnley Bobcats ADM The club has recently received Clubmark re-accreditation, recognising Bobcats provides Burnley with an elite swimming coaching club. The its continuing development as a vibrant and healthy club with a strong Club is affiliated to the Amateur Swimming Association, and is working cricket infrastructure, along with being a safe, effective and child towards swim21 accreditation. The club regularly competes friendly club. Burnley Cricket Club believes passionately in cricket for at regional championships and has realistic everyone and uses cricket to draw together young people from all aspirations to be at the national cultures and backgrounds. championships.The club trains up The Club has been designatedRising an English CricketStar Board Focus Club in Community toVolunteer eight times per week, and this Young Volunteer recognition of being a key deliverer within the County Cricket Board involves dry training as well as pool Strategic Development Plan. Recent initiatives mean Burnley Cricket training. The club has also delivered Club now has more trained and skilled coaches than ever before. of theLong Year Course training sessions for the of the Year past 2 years, which has involved taking swimmers to the Manchester Aquatics Centre on a regular basis. This season the club has more swimmers qualified to swim at the North West Regional Championships than ever before. Burnley Bobcats also play an active role on the Burnley Aquatics Development Group. Vicki Taylor Brian Fenn Special Recognition Community Award Award Health Champion Award Coach Community Club Community School of the Year of the Year of the Year Young Volunteer Felicity PickardRising Star Community Volunteer Felicity volunteers approximately six hours per week.