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Capital Clubs Newsletter - November 2009
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Please download the latest copy of the Capital Clubs Newsletter which this month includes articles on the following:
- Advice on creating links with your local community from Edinburgh Rugby
- Update on Child Protection in Sport guidelines from Children 1st
- Lothian Thistle and Hutchison Vale come together to complete pathways for local youth footballers
- An opportunity to "Train with the Professionals" from Hearts Football Club
- Capital Projects Workshop at Spartans Community Academy
-Active School link to Carlton Cricket club
Plus features on Quick Draw Climbing Club, L'Art du Chi Tai Chi, Hearts Swim Club and City of Edinburgh Trampoline Club.
All clubs are invited to send in articles and photographs for our next edition that we hope to have out just before Christmas.
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Capital Projects Workshop
The workshop is now fully subscribed and a waiting list is in operation.
Following the success of their Revenue Funding Workshop last February, ClubSportEdinburgh is staging a Capital Project Workshop on 2nd December at the new Spartans Football Academy, Ainslie Park.
The workshop will include examples of city clubs who have successfully delivered projects across the city and advice of how to apply for planning permission and funding.
6.45pm: Tea & Coffee served – opportunity to network
7.00pm: Welcome, Introductions & Housekeeping
7.05pm: Fernieside Football Club -£55k development of a small synthetic playing area at The Drum Park, Gilmerton. Supported by Wren and BBC Children in Need
7.25pm: Lismore Rugby Club -£1.4m project at the Inch Park which will create changing/social facilities for rugby, football and cricket clubs in the area. (Project is ongoing, due for completion in 2010)
7.45pm: Spartans Football Academy -£3.5m project opened exactly one year ago involved partnership working with City of Edinburgh Council, sportscotland and several other major funders
8.10pm: Other Potential Contributors/Topics(still to be confirmed)
- Advice on planning applications
- Advice on completing funding applications
- Advice on potential funders
9.00pm Question Time
9.30pm Close
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ClubSportEdinburgh sign the Pledge
ClubSportEdinburgh became the first Edinburgh sports organisation to sign up for the new Access to Sport and Culture Pledge.
Chairman Douglas Adamson announced that "Sport is an integral part of community spirit and it's rich history is a major influence in our shared popular culture. By signing up to The Pledge local sports clubs will be able to contribute and make connections with other groups in ways that may never have been considered in the past. The Pledge is a commitment to Edinburgh and sports clubs will be looking forward to working with other groups to help improve participation and help make everyone in Edinburgh active and involved in their city community."
ClubSportEdinburgh pledged to encourage clubs to come together and share resources with both fellow sports clubs and organisations within the arts, theatrical and cultural communities across Edinburgh.
Councillor Deidre Brock, Culture and Leisure Convenor, also added "The Pledge is an excellent way of showing our shared commitment to making sport and culture as accessible as possible for all Edinburgh residents. We've already had some very positive feedback with a number of organisations signing up and I'm sure we'll see even more coming on board in the coming weeks."
Four city clubs, Edinburgh Wolves American Football, Portobello Rugby Club, Craiglockhart Tennis Club and Polonia Phoenix Basketball, have already followed their lead and signed up and it is hoped many other city clubs will link in to this exciting new initiative.
All clubs and organisations who sign up will be invited to the first ASC Conference that will be held on 17th March 2010 and will offer an excellent opportunities to network with like minded groups and share good practice.
WHAT IS THE PLEDGE?
Throughout 2008, the City of Edinburgh Council and partners consulted widely with organisations, partnerships, clubs, groups and residents across the city to explore ways to increase access to arts, sport and physical activity. The consultation highlighted many common issues and challenges and showed that there are many opportunities to increase such access. The vision is that organisations will pledge to take actions to improve access to arts, sports and physical activities. This document shows how organisations and clubs can pledge to improve access by building on existing good practice, making the most of opportunities and meeting current and future challenges. By signing the pledge organisations will make a strong and lasting shared commitment to work together to continue to improve access, increase membership and raise their profile with other key partners in the city.
WHY MAKE THE PLEDGE?
• The opportunity to create links with other partners and like minded organisations
• A platform to promote your activities by area and activity
• An opportunity to identify and engage with Neighbourhood Partnerships
• Access to information regarding subsidies, smart cards, transport etc
• Invitations to participate in annual conferences and other potential networking opportunities
WHO CAN SIGN THE PLEDGE?
The pledge is for any organisation that provides arts, sport or physical activity in Edinburgh. This includes public, voluntary and commercial organisations, partnerships, agencies, companies, clubs and groups. These organisations already work to provide high quality activities. By signing the pledge, they recognise that they can work collectively to increase participation.
WHAT DOES THE PLEDGE INVOLVE?
The pledge provides a framework for organisations to set out activities to improve the impact of their work on access to and participation in arts, sport and physical activity. Each organisation that signs the pledge will specify actions that it will take under each relevant theme. Organisations will specify a set of actions that can lead to real change and improvement in their ways of working. Activities will depend on the size and nature of the organisation, and what they are already doing.
DELIVERING THE PLEDGE
Pledge partners will be asked to report progress and to renew their pledge every year. The City of Edinburgh Council will collate all pledges to produce a detailed description of actions across the city, update this each year and make it available to all pledge partners. It will also be available on a dedicated webpage. There will be an annual conference to review progress, share experiences
and best practice. The City of Edinburgh Council will act as the lead partner organising, hosting and running the annual event.
THE PLEDGE
“We pledge to improve the quality of life and life chances for all people in Edinburgh through increased access to cultural and sporting activities”
by:
• developing and promoting joint working;
• improving the quality and dissemination of information;
• promoting participation;
• increasing affordability;
• creating sustainable provision;
• responding to users’ views and needs.
• improving access to facilities;
WHAT ORGANISATIONS HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP?
- ClubSportEdinburgh
- Edinburgh Leisure
- Lothian Disability Sport
- Edinburgh Wolves American Football Club
- Polonia Phoenix Basketball Club
- Craiglockhart Tennis Club
- The Edinburgh Parnership
- Health All Round
- Scottish Arts Council
- Theatre Workshop
- The Filmhouse
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- Drake Music
- Lung Ha's Theatre Company
- Audio Description Association
STILL INTERESTED?
For more information go to Pledge Website
and if you would like to sign up to the pledge and really make a difference please contact Colin Mackay on 0131 529 7860 or email
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Pitch & Pavilions Issues in Edinburgh
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Download the recent minutes of the South East Sports Facility Partnership meeting which may be of interest to your club.
This group includes officers from the City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh Leisure and National Governing Bodies plus representatives from local sports clubs and meets to discuss issues and share information relating to pitches and pavilions across the city.
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Nominate Your Club for a Prestigious Sports Award
Edinburgh sports clubs are invited to forward nominations to this years Sunday Mail Scottish Sports Awards that recognises the excellent work they carry out within their communities.
sportscotland is proud to once again support the awards, which are run by the Sunday Mail and aim to celebrate achievement at all levels in sport, from grassroots participation to elite sport. For 2009 the category of “Local Club of the Year” has been added to acknowledge exceptional amateur clubs making a real contribution to everyday life in their own communities.
Examples might include working with children from disadvantaged backgrounds to offer them a sporting chance in life or working with people who have a disability - this award recognises the huge contribution that many sports clubs make to community life in Scotland.
So if you think that your Club deserves special recognition and has made an impact on your local area, nominate them today Here
There is also a “Local Hero” category where you can show your appreciation to outstanding individuals within your club that dedicate their time to allow others to shine and enjoy a better experience in sport.
Additional award categories on the Scottish Sports Awards website include: Inspirational Performance; Young Sports Person of the Year; Team of the Year; Sport of the Year and the sportscotland Scottish Sports Personality of the Year.
The winners of the awards will be announced at a glittering awards ceremony on Thursday 3 December, held at the Hilton Glasgow
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Capital Clubs Newsletter - Aug 2009
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The August copy of the Capital Clubs Newsletter this month features articles from Edinburgh's other two professional sports clubs and includes:
- School Club Links
- Fundraising Opportunities
- Win a training session for your club with professional coaching staff
- Edinburgh Rugby prepares for a new season
- Edinburgh Capitals Ice Hockey's Homecoming
- Festival of Sport
- Coaching Survey and Courses
- Directory of Sports Specific Development Officers
In partnership with Edinburgh Rugby we offer a great opportunity to win your club, regardless of sport, a training session tailored to your needs, with the professional coaching staff at Murrayfield's new state of the art facilities.
Click on the above link to download your copy
If you wish to promote your club or share any success stories in future editions of Capital Clubs, please email your articles and photographs to
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ClubSportEdinburgh Meeting - 29th July 2009
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Please download minutes of the latest meeting of the ClubSportEdinburgh Executive Committee.
This was the first meeting after the recent Annual General Meeting and we welcomed new members Vivien Gourlay, Helen Murray and Kevin Murray on board.
One of the key areas discussed at this meeting was the preparation of an Action Plan for the forthcoming year and, although this is still at the draft stage, affiliated clubs are welcome to forward suggestions through the website.
Actions currently identified include:
a) Raising the profile of CSE particularly at a strategical and political level.
b) Deliver a series of workshops that would include Capital and Revenue Funding.
c) Sign up to Edinburgh's Access to Sport & Culture Pledge with a view to creating strong partnership with other link minded organisations.
d) Continue to support a higher profile Festival of Sport.
e) Continue to seek external funding to increase the support for affiliated clubs.
f) Continue to develop and improve the website.
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Club Resource Pack
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Sports clubs have been thriving in Edinburgh for centuries and will hopefully continue to do so. Clubs play a key role in encouraging sports participation and developing young performers through age-group structures and on up to international standard. With these roles come responsibilities and the need to ensure that clubs are providing quality, safe and enjoyable experiences for their members.
You are not alone in facing these hurdles, and there is a lot of help out there for you to access.
ClubSportEdinburgh has condensed the best of this help in to its own resource pack, which is accessible free of charge on the above link.
The pack aims to:
a) provide a generic resource for sports clubs that wish to improve. It is of particular relevance to clubs whose National Governing Bodies (NGB) does not have a sport-specific club development manual.
b) highlight the main issues that clubs need to be aware of when working with children and young people and support that work by providing resources to assist them.
The pack is arranged in eight sections:
1. Duty of Care and Child Protection
2. Coaching and Playing Programme
3. Sports Equity and Ethics
4. Club Management
5. Good Practice – Volunteer Management
6. Contacts – useful contacts and websites for additional support
7. Funding Opportunities for Clubs
8. Templates - clubs can use these to assist the development of their policy, procedures and practices.
You may find that your club needs some help in just one or two of those areas, or feels the need to completely review its long term aims, and begin the process of creating a sustainable plan for the future.
Regardless of the level of help required, the pack has proved a most useful tool to many clubs in the city, and we recommend it to you.
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Parks & Open Space Public Consultation
City clubs are invited to share their views on Edinburgh's Parks and Open spaces.
The City of Edinburgh Council is preparing an open space strategy that will set standards of provision across the city and show where these are still to be met. This will help set priorities for change in open space over the next five years. The strategy will be accompanied by 12 action plans, one for each neighbourhood partnership area.
As a first step before the strategy and action plans are prepared, the Council has mapped all significant open spaces in the city and gathered basic information on them. This includes playing fields, tennis courts, bowling greens and golf courses. This information is set out in a draft open space audit.
The draft open space audit is available to view in Council libraries or online here Paper copies can be purchased from the Planning Reception at Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street.
The draft audit will be discussed at public workshops during June and July 2009. The list of public workshops and other events we will be attending with an information stand are below. The end date for comments on the draft audit is 10 July 2009.
We are interested in which open spaces and outdoor sports facilities clubs use, how they use them and what they think of their quality. Tell us what you think by completing our online open space questionnaire.
The final audit will be published in October 2009. The information gathered at this stage will be used to inform the preparation of the draft strategy and action plans. There will be a second public consultation on the draft strategy and action plans at the start of 2010.
If you have any questions or would like to request more copies of the questionnaire, please contact us on 0131 469 3598, or by writing to Finlay Martin, Local Planning Policy, G1 Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh, EH8 8BG or email here
Weekday Evening Public Workshops
Mon 8 June: 6.30–8 pm at Stockbridge Library
Tue 9 June: 6.30–8 pm at Piershill Library
Thurs 11 June: 6.30–8 pm at Telford College
Mon 15 June: 6.30–8 pm at The Faith Mission, 548 Gilmerton Road
Tue 16 June: 6.30–8 pm at Leith Academy
Wed 17 June: 6.30–8 pm at Wester Hailes Education Centre
Thurs 18 June: 7.00–8:30 pm at Currie Primary School
Tue 23 June: 6.30–8 pm at Kirkliston Community Centre
Wed 24 June: 6.30–8 pm at East Craigs Church Centre
Thurs 25 June: 6.30–8 pm at Gillis Centre, 100 Strathearn Road
Tue 30 June: 6.30–8 pm at St Columba’s by the Castle,14 Johnston Terrace,
Please come along to one of our workshops – so we can order tea/coffee it would help if you could let us know of your attendance by calling us on 0131 469 3411 or email
Weekend Community Events – Information Stand
Sat 13 June: 11–6 pm at Leith Festival Gala Day, Leith Links
Sat 13 June: 12.30m–4 pm at Kirkliston Gala - Allison Park, Kirkliston
Sun 14 June: 12–4 pm at Do the Burn: Burdiehouse Burn, Gilmerton Dykes Road
Sat 27 June: 10–5 pm at Canal Festival, Edinburgh Quay, Fountainbridge
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Promote Your Club on this Site
ClubSportEdinburgh is now in a position to offer a full page on this site to each affiliated club to promote their activities and create links to their own site. Please email all your details in a format that can easily be cut and paste to the site and it will be posted against your club's initial information.
Not Affiliated yet? Easy - just complete the online application form at the top right of the page it is as simple as that.
Affiliation is still free and now strongly recommended as priority will be given at all future workshops to affiliated clubs.
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Edinburgh Clubs support Festival of Sport
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Edinburgh will be staging it’s first ever Festival of Sport this summer between 18th and 28th June. This exciting new event is sponsored by Activcity, supported by ClubSportEdinburgh and includes a wide range of sports and activities designed to promote physical activity, showcase the programmes of many of the city's sports clubs, and encourage locals and visitors alike to become more involved in an active, healthy lifestyle.
The festival has attracted almost seventy events covering over thirty sports and includes everything from major international tournaments, small local festivals to free coaching and come & try activities.
The full event programme can be accessed through the "Festival of Sport" and "Forthcoming Events" pages on this site and we are delighted to report that over thirty city clubs are involved that include:
Azami Karate, Braids Tennis, Caledonian Thebans Rugby, City of Edinburgh Volleyball, Corstorphine Tennis, Cross Combat Brazilian Ju Jitsu, Edinburgh Athletic, Edinburgh City Korfball, Edinburgh Diamond Devils Baseball, Edinburgh Jitsu, Edinburgh City Ju Jitsu, Edinburgh Sports Club, Gracemount Edinburgh Handball, Edinburgh Wolves American Football, Fernieside Football Club, Forth Camanachd Shinty, Hot Scots Football, Inverleith Petanque, Kingsknowe Golf, L'art Du Chi Tai Chi, Leith Bowling, Murrayfield Memorial Table Tennis, Murrayfield DAFS Cricket, Murrayfield Wanderers Rugby, North Merchiston, NUVOC Volleyball, Polonia Phoenix Basketball, Royal Forth Yacht, Spartans Football Academy, Sunday Brunch Social Group and Tang Soo Do Martial Arts.
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Volunteer Fair works for several Clubs
ClubSportEdinburgh operated a stall at the recent North Edinburgh Volunteer Fair held at Telford college on 26th March.
Almost twenty city clubs sent in details of their volunteer requirements which were promoted on the day and attracted over 60 enquiries.
Six clubs also attended the fair which included BATS Rugby, Boroughmuir Girls Football, Edinburgh Triathlon Club, South Queensferry Kirkliston Football and Edinburgh Tai Chi with most of them reporting interest from volunteers.
Big success was Boroughmuir Girls who reported thirteen notes of interst and at least five "very enthusiastic" responses.
ClubSportEdinburgh are now considering having a presence at the Edinburgh Volunteer event which is held later in the year at the Assembly Rooms as it attempt to raise the profile and committment of volunteers in sport.
For clubs wishing to advertise for more volunteers please check out the following website that offers free advertising Volunteer Edinburgh
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Funding Workshop a Great Success
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Over 100 delegates representing 63 city clubs attended ClubSportEdinburgh’s first funding workshop at Meggetland earlier this month.
Chairperson Douglas Adamson was delighted with the turnout and promised further workshops in the months ahead.
The feedback from clubs and contributors was excellent with many favoutable comments and suggestions for future workshops.
Over 70 clubs have now affiliated to ClubSportEdinburgh so to ensure your club’s place on future workshops affiliate through the online at the top right hand page of the home page
To access the full report on the workshop please click on the above link.
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