Hi BritDisc, I'm attempting to put together a doc that will (hopefully) show us where we are strongest and subsequently weakest around the UK, in terms of development of the sport.
I simply want to know a few things about our clubs. After all, without government funding it is our clubs that will inevitably have to lead the development of the game. Or so I believe. Please help me by only answering the questions I ask *=D* if you want to send me a separate email with other information, then please do! I want to know about the following three: Clubs, School Clubs & University Clubs. *Name of Club:* *Does your club have a development role:* *If so, what are the contact details:* *(please expect these contact details to be used by both the UKU and to be given to "external" third parties such as sports development officers) * *Are you currently involved with local development of some sort:* *If so, briefly what does it involve:* *example "we run taster sessions and open sessions every Tuesday in November. We advertise these sessions at local sports venues and leisure centres. We have run coaching in a local after school club"* *Where is the club based/represent: **example "University of Make Believe, Manchester" or "Make Believe High School, London" or "Crewe" * Please note: I'm not looking for you to supply me with details about your open sessions or information about your clubs ability to take on new players. I'm looking for information about; if your club is able to handle being referred on to people who contact the *UKU*. If your club is able (and wants) to support the *UKU* in its aspirations to develop Ultimate in a local area through a formal strategy. Though I'm not actually asking people to reply to this paragraph formally with a yes or no. And replying to the above questions won't answer this paragraph either. It's food for thought mostly. In a quick attempt to manage expectations: I'm not saying we already have a formal strategy for clubs to plug in to, we do not. I am simply attempting to gain a measurable overview of what the possible capability of our clubs is like, to *perhaps* adopt a national strategy some time in the future. However there are plenty of things that can be done now to help things along! See below. One of the first things clubs can look to do is consider their current policy on young people attending their sessions. Did you know that *UK Ultimate* supplies a Safeguarding document that clubs can simply sign to adopt. Obviously you need to implement the policy and understand it too. But this has been done in an attempt to make having junior players at open clubs, easier. http://www.ukultimate.com/About%20UK%20Ultimate/safeguarding_children_and_young_people NB: If you have a policy, we are not asking you to adopt ours. Thanks for your time. Sincerely, Liam Kelly UK Ultimate, Coaching & Development office. 0151 324 0929 twitter. Ultimate_Liam -- UK Ultimate Tel: 0844 8045949 Email: [email protected] UK Ultimate, 27 Old Gloucester Road, LONDON WC1N 3AX __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
