Annual Report 12/13 - The English Table Tennis Association

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range of sports under one roof.
Our Satellite Clubs programme
is all about creating new and
appealing opportunities to help
young people make the step into
community sport and set them
on the path to creating a sporting
habit for life.”
5.3.7 Sessions run at Bishop Challoner
Catholic College, King’s Heath,
Birmingham, every Friday from
4:30-6:30 pm.
5.4 Premier League Commitment
5.4.1 Lord Coe, Chairman of the
British Olympic Association and
architect of the London 2012
Olympic and Paralympic Games,
has hailed the positive work done
by Premier League clubs in their
communities, particularly with
respect to sports participation.
5.4.2 Writing the foreword for the
Premier League Creating Chances
2012 report, Lord Coe said:
“The Premier League is to be
applauded for ensuring that
thousands of young people will
get their opportunity to participate
in sport. For years the Premier
League has been delivering in
the area of sports participation
and they, like me, are heartened
to see that in 2012 this issue
moved higher up the agenda for
government.”
5.4.3 Lord Coe went on to elaborate
on the breadth of community
work that Creating Chances
projects cover: “It’s not just about
sport. In this document are some
powerful examples of partnership
having an impact on young
people in these shores and afar:
Kickz with the police, Premier
Skills with the British Council,
Reading Stars with the National
Literacy Trust, over 80 community
projects funded by the Premier
League Professional Footballers’
Association Community Fund.
And that’s just the League; you
now have the likes of Liverpool
and Sunderland acting as lead
agencies in their city for men’s
health and family learning.
Professional football is now a
recognised best practice provider
of social development.”
5.4.4 Premier League Chief Executive,
Richard Scudamore, said: “The
Premier League, like most sports
bodies, is not a recent convert
to the power of our players,
clubs and activities to engage.
The focus on sport during 2012
has put the role and ability of
organisations like us to deliver
across a range of areas right
back in the centre of the political
debate and the public’s mind.
We are proud of the facilities
being built and the practitioners
whose drive and professionalism
is making a real difference to
thousands of young people from
all backgrounds throughout the
country.
5.4.5 “Our clubs have a tremendous
track record in terms of
investment and delivery in this
area with huge amounts of
money and resources historically
flowing into projects like Kickz
and Premier League 4 Sport. It is
something we, and they, can only
do because of the success and
strength of the Premier League
as a competition. So the clubs’
commitment to ensuring we
remain a vibrant and compelling
elite football competition is critical
to their ability to deliver the
breadth and depth of community
work detailed in the Creating
Chances Report.”
5.4.6 Minister for Sport Hugh Robertson
said: “The Premier League’s
Creating Chances programme
has been doing fantastic work
in clubs’ local communities
for years. As well as helping
to increase opportunities for
young people to get involved in
football it has helped deliver on
social inclusion, education and
career development. I hope the
programme goes from strength to
strength in the years ahead.”
5.5 Premier League 4 Sport
Programme to continue
5.5.1 The Premier League is looking
to extend and expand the PL4S
programme for another three
years in partnership with Sport
England and NGBs (ETTA). The
new model is proposed to expand
to 32 Premier and Football
League clubs and involve 12
sports in total. Update:
• Four new sports (athletics,
tennis, golf and boxing) will join
the programme.
• 26 football clubs will receive
funding for a full-time PL4S
officer and the delivery of 20
satellites across a minimum
of six sports and maximum of
eight different sports.
• Six clubs will receive funding
for a part-time officer and the
delivery of ten satellites across
a minimum of three sports.
• All NGBs delivering as part
of the programme have
overarching satellite club
targets as part of their 2013-17
WSPs. They will be expected
to utilise some of this funding
to support the development
of their sport within the PL4S
programme. The Premier
League will no longer provide
capacity funding direct to the
NGBs.
5.5.2 Premier League 4 Sport headline
figures for participation:
• Premier League 4 Sport
(PL4S) – 57,178 young people
played eight Olympic sports
of badminton, basketball,
handball, hockey, judo, netball,
table tennis and volleyball in the
first three years of PL4S since
2009.
Clubs 17
Satellites 66
Males 1,567
Females 292
Engaged 1,878
5.6 Higher Education (HE)
Engagement
5.6.1 This year has seen an increase
in the engagement with Higher
Education (HE) institutions and
BUCS (British Universities Colleges
Sport) to facilitate more young
people taking an active part/
role in table tennis. Research has
been undertaken with a number
of universities and their students
to ascertain the important
components that would comprise
a suitable offer for HE students