I'd like to thank Jaimie, Catherain, Chris from Catch the Spirit, and everyone else who gave up their time this week to go and help out at the event featured on the news clip.
Liam Kelly is and has been working really hard (and doing a great job - thanks Liam!) on this for a few months now, and he's got us into a good position within the project. The Youth Sport Trust and Matalan are really ambitious about growing the project to a really significant size over the next 2-3 years. We expect/hope that during 2011-12 we will receive support to work with secondary schools across 10 counties in England (we can't say which ones yet). That is a lot of secondary schools. If next year is a success the plan is that the following year will be bigger. We are going to need more help (please)! There will be other events and sessions where we will be hoping to bring in some volunteers from the ultimate-community (as Liam has done a few times already - thanks to those that have helped out so far). Looking further ahead, we'd like more clubs to consider whether they can extend what they do to offer opportunities for local school kids to join the club - maybe even look at setting up dedicated youth sections? Last year we released lots of guidance on Safeguarding (link below) maybe that will help. And we'll be looking to clubs to tidy up their information on the UKU website in terms of who they are, where they are based, etc, etc. http://www.ukultimate.com/About%20UK%20Ultimate/safeguarding_children_and_yo ung_people Thats it for now... Si Si Hill, UK Ultimate [email protected] Tel: 0844 8045949 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jaimie Cross > Sent: 15 July 2011 13:46 > To: brit disc > Subject: [BD] Steve Redgrave playing Ultimate > > The UKU/Matalan event was covered on BBC Look North last night. Go to > 20:00 in the broadcast. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012h4sf/Look_North_(North_East_an > d_Cumbria)_14_07_2011 > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
