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Member Exclusive - 20% off Get Active: The Sport Strategy Conference

It’s not long until ‘Get Active: The Sport Strategy Conference’ at the IStructE in Central London, and as a CIMSPA member we are delighted to confirm you can access an exclusive 20% discount.

Join colleagues from across the country as they focus on harnessing the positive power of sport and physical activity and achieving access for all.

 

Date - 27th March 2024
Time - 09:30-13:30
Location - The Institution of Structural Engineers, Bastwick Street, London, UK
CIMSPA Member Discount – use code CIMSPA20 when booking

 

What you’ll get from the event

From attending this event you will gain a better understanding of:

  • Sharing best practice to widen participation in sport.
  • The key barriers to getting active.
  • Targeting investment to narrow the gap on inactivity.
  • Partnering with health and local services to harness the long-term health benefits of sport.
  • Developing sport with integrity: complaint handling and dispute resolution.
  • Supporting mental health and safeguarding.
  • Measuring value and impact.
  • Next steps for government-funded facilities, active spaces and programmes.
  • Attracting alternative and sustainable forms of investment to help sport thrive.

Agenda Highlights

10:10 - 10:55

Panel Session: Improving Access and Participation in Sport for All

  • Tackling inequality in activity levels across different demographic groups.
  • Implementing intentional interventions to harness the value of sport for community development.
  • Working together with partners and funding grassroots efforts to increase activity levels.
  • Understanding barriers to participation and unlocking the potential of active lifestyles.

Juliette Inverdale
Head of Sport Participation, DCMS, National Physical Activity Taskforce

Viveen Taylor
Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Sport England

Helen Rowbotham
CEO, Access Sport, NED and Trustee, British Paralympic Association

Hitesh Patel
CEO, Sport for Development Coalition

 

12:10 - 12:45

Panel Session: Improving Integrity in Sport

  • Winning well: reforming the approach to safety and welfare with athletes at the centre.
  • Improving mental health support for all to foster inclusion and diversity.
  • Handling complaints with integrity to tackle misconduct and corruption.

Tara Dillon
CEO, CIMSPA

Geraldine Costello
Director of Welfare and Safe Sport, British Gymnastics

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