ANNUAL REVIEW 2016/17 Sport and Physical Activity in partnership 2 016/17 Annual Review 2016/17 headline achievements £545,382 Public Health and £105,000 Moving at Scale funding invested £1,771,498 invested through our Local Sport and Physical Activity Alliances into county Locality Sport and Physical Activity Plans, generating 310,773 attendances visiting the LRS £570,210 £135,500 secured for local clubs and invested to recruit Over website, with over organisations resulting 11 Graduate Trainees 67,000 from Funding Officer (Legacy Makers) users 530,000 page views support 19,317 Over activities recorded during the 8 week 2,949 £100,000 Workplace Challenge Activity Log young people participated in the invested into the Level 3 School Games development of 43 Programme, of whom Satellite Clubs 433 were disabled young athletes 24 press releases £174,984 PR invested into projects issued to the local media, with SPORTIVATE an average coverage success in the final year of the programme, rate of 87%, an increase of bringing the total investment to over 6% from 2015/16 9,422 75 GO GOLD Podium since 2011 attendances at sport Level athletes £884,220 and physical activity campaign weeks (This awarded a total of £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Girl Can, Feel Alive from 65, Active Family Week) £35,500 0 0:0 0:2 0 0:0 0:3 Annual Review 2016/17 contents foreword Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport (LRS) is a partnership of the Local Authorities of Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland working together with schools, National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs), clubs, coaches and volunteers to create a lasting legacy for sport and physical activity. Foreword 5 It has been another fantastic year for sport and physical activity. From the dizzy heights of winning Enterprise and Innovation 6 the Premier League, Leicester City Football Club confounded many observers with their strong run to the Champions League Quarter Finals. Success continued for Leicester Riders as they bedded Financial Headlines 7 down in the fabulous new Leicester Arena, completing a memorable treble. The world of sport policy also had some highlights with the publication of the new, outcome focused Ambition 1 • Young People 8 strategy ‘Towards an Active Nation’ launched by Sport England in May 2016. The new strategy Ambition 2 • Adults 10 focuses on addressing inactivity by using insight, behaviour change and customer service principles to catalyse a change in participation rates and to lead future investment decisions. When we look Ambition 3 • Places to Play 12 back at the successes of this past year we are delighted to present a few notable firsts: Ambition 4 • Legacy 14 • The Leicester Business Festival included for the first time a sport and physical activity theme Ambition 5 • Clubs and Pathways 16 which we helped to programme and develop. • We ran the first sub-regional Community Sport Celebration Event at Leicester Arena, attracting nearly 300 participants, coaches, volunteers and their families. The event was sponsored Guiding Principles 18 admirably by De Montfort University. • We are the first County Sports Partnership to produce a Sport and the Economy Growth Strategy. LRS Celebration Evening 2017 20 In 2017/18, we will have appointed the first officer in England who will be working to support over 500 sport businesses grow their combined gross value added beyond the current £513 million. Our work with: • We were also delighted to play our part in supporting the first ever National School Games to be Blaby 22 held at Loughborough University, which attracted 1,600 athletes and 500 local event volunteers. Charnwood 24 • We helped Samworth Brothers to invest their first £1 million through their Sport Opportunity Harborough 26 Fund, an incredible commitment by a local company that focuses on local places and people. Hinckley & Bosworth 28 • We were the first County Sports Partnership to achieve an ‘Excellent’ rating in the new Quest for Active Communities external assessment. Leicester City 30 Sport and Physical Activity play a key part in creating healthy and vibrant communities, however, Melton 32 partners and funders find it an increasingly difficult area to justify investment when there are so North West Leicestershire 34 many competing priorities. As we look to the future, the partnership-wide Strategy for Physical Activity and Sport 2017- 21 will shape the work that we do to support sport and physical activity in Oadby & Wigston 36 our counties, city, districts and boroughs. Rutland 38 On behalf of the LRS Board Members and the Core Team, we wish our partners, athletes, clubs, schools, coaches, volunteers and participants every success for the year ahead. Best wishes Andy Reed, OBE Bill Cullen Chairman Vice Chairman Leicester-Shire and Rutland Sport Board Leicester-Shire and Rutland Sport Board 0 0:0 0:4 0 0:0 0:5 Annual Review 2016/17 ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATION financial headlines 2016/17 The following financial statement provides the accounted income and expenditure for LRS During 2016/17, SportSuite continued to grow its reputation across the sector with Higher Education, for the 2016/17 financial year. The accounts include provisions for carry forward balances National Governing Body and County Sports Partnership clients coming on board. Major enhancements to facilitate programmes that operate across financial years. were performed to further develop the modules to provide greater data capture and insight capabilities. Clients were encouraged to provide feedback on the process and beta versions of features have now been rolled out successfully. Autumn 2016 saw the release of a new SportSuite Fixtures system to all secondary schools across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland for the online management of their School Games and Team 1% 5% Leicestershire competitions. The mobile friendly system provided every Head of PE across the sub- INCOME 9% region with the ability to view dates and record results for their fixtures across the year. Sport England £712,109 30% 30% HIGHLIGHTS Strategic Commissioning (LCC) £692,576 30% • Half of the County Sports Partnerships across England are currently using SportSuite for online Local Authority Contributions £154,427 7% programme promotion and user management. Host Authority Contributions (LCC) £417,965 18% 18% • The first SportSuite Digital Marketing Day was a success with over 20 clients attending. Enterprise & Innovation Fees and Charges £221,211 9% National Governing Bodies of Sport £30,088 1% Other Income £108,056 5% DIGITAL MARKETING DAY Totals £2,336,432 7% In addition to the annual SportSuite Development Day practice examples of how to target audiences and where clients share their suggestions for software learnt the latest techniques on market segmentation 30% improvements, this year LRS delivered their first Digital to encourage greater engagement with their Marketing Day. This event provided training for clients programmes. on how to best promote their services online using insight gathered from SportSuite. Over 20 clients travelled from as far as Dorset 5% and North Yorkshire to attend a one day event at 5% 19% Loughborough University to discover new ways to EXPENDITURE gather and interrogate their data. Attendees with marketing and workforce specialities shared best Ambition 1 - Young People £460,794 19% Ambition 2 - Adults £211,170 9% Ambition 3 - Facilities £50,205 2% 9% EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS FOR WORKPLACE CHALLENGE Ambition 4 - Legacy £130,834 6% Ambition 5 - Clubs and Pathways £290,525 12% 2% Guiding Principles (Safe, Fair & Well Led) £993,307 42% Following a rebrand and pricing review, the Workplace “The Workplace Challenge has been a key tool to help 42% Challenge is now available for companies to license our staff enjoy a more active and healthy lifestyle. Enterprise and Innovation £126,809 5% 6% bespoke versions of the software for their own staff. An Running a range of individual and team challenges Overheads £128,911 5% online calculator provides the pricing for organisations throughout the year has helped us build our staff with less than 50 staff to those with a global workforce. engagement and the website provides a platform to Totals £2,392,555 12% share news, events and activities.” 2017 saw the creation of four new Workplace Challenge Tristan Hale systems for companies who are taking advantage Brookes Active Project Manager, of the new team challenge element and enhanced Oxford Brookes University GPS tracking mobile applications. Fitbit, MyZone and BetterPoints have now been integrated with the software, enabling users to track their activity levels on the go using a variety of wearable technology. Net Deficit required from Reserves £56,123 0 0:0 0:6 0 0:0 0:7 Annual Review 2016/17 AMBITION 1: YOUNG PEOPLE IMPACT AMBITION SUMMARY To work in partnership with Head Teachers, governors, PE practitioners, early years settings and sporting advocates through our School Sport and Physical Activity Modernising a Traditional School Competition Offer Networks (SSPANs) to increase access and participation in PE, sport and physical The Leicestershire County Netball Association was awarded The John activity for all children and young people. Buckingham Award for ‘Developing School Sports Association’, in recognition of their efforts to develop the sport at secondary school level through the new Team Leicestershire model. This work has included creating a system whereby all schools compete in local netball fixtures on a more regular basis and within a consistent highlights calendar of dates. This has closed the gap between the independent school and state school sectors, in terms of both participation opportunities and performance results. As a result, in the 2016/17 season every secondary school across ∫ Over 16,000 young people have participated in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland had access to a local schools netball competition and two out of the three Team Leicestershire competitions across 9 sports, DID YOU KNOW? county champion sides were from state schools. including 46 county finals.