The Great Yarmouth Sports Partnership was established in January 2003. It plays a key role in bringing external funding into the borough to support community sport and encourage increased sport participation.
Who is involved?
The partnership is made up from representatives of local agencies and organisations from the statutory, voluntary and private sectors who share an interest in sport, or the use of sport, as a tool to address broader issues such as health improvement; education and learning; community regeneration; crime diversion and social inclusion.
Partnership members include:
Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Great Yarmouth Primary Care Trust
Great Yarmouth Sports Council
Sport England (East)
Norfolk County Council
Norfolk Sports Alliance
Cliff Park Specialist Sports College
Federation of Eastern Sport
NACRO
Great Yarmouth Youth Offending Team
Norfolk Constabularly
Norfolk Football Association
Norfolk Youth and Community Services
Great Yarmouth Disability Forum
John Grant School
Norfolk Disability Sports
Marina Leisure Centre
Local Community Associations.
East Norfolk School Sports Partnership
What have we achieved?
Successful funding bids to date include the Positive Futures Programme (£95,000); Sport Aid (£25,000); Local Exercise Action Pilot LEAP (£200,000) and the Active England Programme (£150,000).
This funding has enabled many new sport and physical activity opportunities to be developed within the borough.
The Partnership has been recognised by Sport England (East) as a good example of an operational community sport network. The Minister for Sport, the Rt Hon Richard Caborn, visited Great Yarmouth in August 2005 to view first hand the work in action.
The Future
The Partnership will continue to pursue other external funding opportunities as they become available to provide increased provision for sport and physical activity throughout the borough
To find out more about existing projects please contact:
Billy Schofield
Positive Futures
Tel: 01493 668101
Paul Brice
Local Exercise Action Pilot (LEAP)
Tel: 07767 647749
Marten Payne
Active England
Tel: 07766 205746
For general enquiries and further information please contact:
Marie Hartley
Secretary
Great Yarmouth Sports Partnership
c/o Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Maritime House
25 Marine Parade
Great Yarmouth
NR30 2EN
Tel: 01493 846354
Email: mlh@great-yarmouth.gov.uk