#ActiveAwards2020 Thank you for joining the ActiveWestminster Awards 2020! In this digital programme, you can find a full agenda for this evening’s event, as well as information about our wonderful sponsors EcoWorld and ETC, who make this year’s ActiveWestminster Awards possible. You can also find an overview of the awards categories and shortlisted finalists. We hope you enjoy the first ever virtual ActiveWestminster Awards. Watch the awards ActiveWestminster Awards 2020 02 Welcome It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to the virtual ActiveWestminster Awards this evening. Now in its eleventh year the awards are a mainstay of the ActiveWestminster calendar, bringing our community together to recognise and celebrate the people and organisations who help us create an Active City for All. This year’s Awards are particularly needed, as it is important to recognise and celebrate the tremendous efforts of our residents, athletes, volunteers, clubs and ActiveWestminster partners, who have continued to provide their high quality services and provision to those that have required them the most throughout the pandemic. The nominees range from residents, local clubs and schools through to ActiveWestminster partners and Westminster-based elite athletes. The standard of nominations has again, been exceptional this year and we’re extremely proud of all those who were nominated. Therefore, we’ve had to make some tough decisions in short-listing the finalists, all of whom have been recognised for the vital role they play in physical activity, leisure and/or sport by getting and keeping our residents and communities active. The hard work and dedication of all the nominees is extremely appreciated by the council, our residents and communities that we all serve. I’m proud to say that physical activity, leisure and sport across Westminster continues to go from strength to strength. In 2018 we launched our bold and ambitious ActiveWestminster strategy – Activate your City, Lives and Neighbourhoods. Our strategy has been developed to facilitate meaningful impact, not simply to sit on a shelf. It sets out clearly our ambitions for physical activity, leisure and sport and how we will work together via our underpinning principles to achieve these ambitions. We continue to make important progress on our strategy commitments, including the implementation of our innovative ActiveStreets programme, which enables physical activity opportunities on the doorstep in our neighbourhoods for our children, young people and families. And; we continue our digital ambitions by purposefully implementing OpenActive. In doing so, we will open to the benefits of digital innovation in the physical activity, leisure and sport sector for our residents and communities by embracing and learning from new technology. Earlier this year we held the inaugural and hugely successful inclusive event Dance Westminster, an innovative new project that encouraged more disabled people in our communities to get and stay active through dance. In 2021 Dance Westminster workshops and auditions will take place in partnership with local inclusive dance company Step Change Studios. It is open to disabled people aged 11 and over who live, work or study in Westminster. Participants will experience an inclusive, engaging dance class and learn a dance routine. ActiveWestminster Awards 2020 03 These achievements, amongst many others serve as a strong reminder as to how dedicated our residents, communities and our ActiveWestminster partners have been in continuing to activate our city, lives and neighbourhoods. However, more progress on getting and keeping our residents and communities active needs to be made and we cannot achieve these changes alone. We recognise that no single department or organisation can, on its own, significantly increase and sustain the physical activity levels of our population. It will require the involvement and commitment of many partners and stakeholders to achieve this common goal. Reaching that goal will require persistence, patience and resolution, therefore it is not just about doing the same things more efficiently – at times more innovative, radical and bold change will be required and we want to ensure that there is an openness to explore new options. We want to continue to work collaboratively to encourage innovation and share best practice. Through creating supportive and permissive environments that encourages people to be physically active, where, when and how they choose, we can better engage those who are currently inactive. We need to encourage, facilitate and enable our children, young people, families and communities to lead active lives by undertaking changes to their lifestyles that are tailored to them and suits their needs. With you, our partners we want to create a genuine Active City for All. I invite everyone to have a fantastic evening celebrating our collective achievements, your inspiring work and dedication to physical activity, leisure and/or sport in Westminster. Whether you win an award this evening or not, I’d like to thank you all for everything that you have done, and continue to do, for the City of Westminster and the ActiveWestminster Partnership, particularly in what has been a very challenging year. Thank You! Councillor Paul Swaddle OBE Cabinet Member for Community Services and Digital ActiveWestminster Awards 2020 04 Agenda 7pm Welcome Introduction by Sky Sports Presenter David Garrido Welcome by Cllr Paul Swaddle OBE, Cabinet Member for Community Services and Digital 7.05pm Awards presentations 7.20pm Half-time interlude VIBERCISE with Cory Wharton-Malcolm 7.25pm Awards presentations 7.45pm Closing remarks The Right Worshipful Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Jonathan Glanz 7.50pm Thank you and close of event ActiveWestminster Awards 2020 05 Awards headline sponsors EcoWorld A new community leisure centre at the previous site of Jubilee Sports Centre, will consist of new a three-court sports hall and community suite. Changing areas will meet the changing places standard, making this centre accessible for the whole community. The community suite will be flexible and provide space both for physical activities and for community events. This community leisure centre is currently under construction and is forecast to open in Winter 2022. The opening of this new community leisure centre is an integral part of the ActiveWestminster Strategy and the council’s City for All priorities. ETC ETC have had the privilege in recent years of installing various facilities across the city to meet the forward-thinking ethic of the Westminster. Last year, ETC installed two FA standard 3G pitches at Paddington Recreation Ground, and this year they have added an international standard artificial grass Hockey pitch and a state-of-the-art polymeric surfaced 60m athletics sprint straight and calisthenics fitness zones. ETC were also delighted this year to have transformed the Lisson Green football pitch into an FA compliant 3G pitch with a roof net. ETC are very proud to the company to be providing top class facilities for the community in Westminster. Our partners Everyone Active Everyone Active is proud to work with in partnership with Westminster City Council, helping to provide health, fitness and leisure services to local communities. The company and its employees are passionate about the role we believe we can play in improving the health and wellbeing of the city and are committed to providing the highest standard of facilities at Westminster leisure centres. All the company’s staff shares the same passion for being active and our commitment to providing members with the highest quality health and fitness advice and training. As well as managing leisure centres on behalf of Westminster City Council and delivering health and fitness services, Everyone Active also supports the council to find and secure funding to improve and/or create new facilities and activities locally in the community. ActiveWestminster Awards 2020 06 Awards prize’s sponsors Also, thank you to Charles and Tin-Tin Ho. ActiveWestminster Awards 2020 07 Award shortlisted finalists Inclusive Award This award recognises an individual, club or facility that create and deliver inclusive activities for disabled people. Deb Bullen and Sport for Confidence Sport for Confidence CIC is a unique organisation that places occupational therapists working alongside sports coaches to deliver person-centred physical activity sessions for individuals who face barriers to participation. Before the impact of COVID-19, Sport for Confidence was operating its programme in three Leisure Centres in Westminster, delivering 10 inclusive sessions every week. Participants, many of whom live with learning disabilities, mental health conditions and other long-term health conditions, enjoy a range of activities including boccia, multisport, table tennis, polybat and supported gym sessions. During COVID-19 the programme continued online and thereafter a hybrid approach has been implemented with sessions in Leisure Centres and online to support accessibility. Pro Touch Soccer Academy (PTSA) – SEN Football & Fitness Project PTSA former member Paul Davis, whom had learning disabilities and experienced mental health challenges reached out to PTSA about wanting to establish a football and physical activity programme to help others just like him, with socialisation, physical health and mental health development. By making the sessions inclusive and welcoming to all, the words spread quickly, and numbers