The Minister for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society Nigel Huddleston has backed the Sport for Development Coalition’s call for sport to act as a ‘team player’ in levelling up deprived communities and building back better from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Minister was speaking at the Coalition’s inaugural CEO Forum in London attended by more than 100 executives and leaders from sport for development organisations across the UK. The Coalition is a growing network of more than 200 charities, sports bodies, community and voluntary organisations over-arching thousands of projects and programmes intentionally using sport and physical activity to generate positive social outcomes.
SajeImpact Director Andy Reed has been drafted in to help the RFU review its governance as part of a new Task Group established this month.
The purpose of the Task Group is to conduct an organisational review of the RFU as an NGB and recommend the best structure to take the game forward over the next decade. Andy Reed has been co-opted as an Independent member of the panel alongside Anne-Marie Phelps CBE
A new carbon neutral bus station will be constructed at the heart of the area – believed to be the first bus station to be built to net zero carbon standards in the UK. Bus passengers will benefit from a completely redesigned and improved internal layout with a new café, better seating and real time digital passenger information. The new design will include LED lighting, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, air source heat pumps and 750 square metres of solar panels, which will generate enough energy to power the station and feed extra energy back into the grid.
There will also be increased capacity for national and regional bus services with the number of bus bays increasing from 18 to 24. Electric bus charging points will be installed, and the new building will feature secure storage for up to 150 bikes.
We are delighted that one of our clients GB Wheelchair Rugby has won Gold in the 2020Tokyo Paralympic Games.
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The Sport for Development Coalition has announced the appointment of three new Board members following a period of governance reform aimed at ensuring a wider range of lived experience informs its decision-making and leadership of its collective action.
The Coalition is a growing group of 200 charities, civil society organisations, networks, sports clubs and governing bodies who are committed to maximising the contribution of sport and physical activity to positive social change. It is supported by Comic Relief, Sport England and Laureus Sport for Good.
The new Board members bring substantial expertise, understanding and deep knowledge of a wide of skills across public affairs and government relations, charity law, and equality, diversity and inclusion action planning from local to international levels.
The Dying Well APPG with Matt Hancock MP
This week the Dying Well APPG met with contributions from Matt Hancock, Tanni grey-Thompson, chaired by Danny Kruger MP.
You can follow the full meeting here in the YouTube link below.
Link to recording of the meeting. YouTube
Whilst SajeImpact is best known in the field of sport and physical activity it has never been the sole purpose of the team of Andy & Sarah. The purpose has always been about having a wider positive Impact on wider society.
Given the wide experience Andy gained in Parliament it is important to deal with a wide range of issues to create a just and healthy society.
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well promotes access to excellent care at end of life and stands against the legalisation of doctor assisted suicide in the UK.
In recent years there have been huge strides in palliative medicine. It is now possible to effectively manage pain as people die. We believe the future is one of high-quality, universally available palliative care for all – not the requirement to decide whether or not to take lethal drugs to end your life early.
As we get nearer the end of #lockdown restrictions across the sectors where SajeImpact work Director Andy Reed has set out plans for the next phase of business.
Andy said
“It has been my plan to step back from the business in 2020-21 but Covid meant I have stayed around a little longer than planned. I have been keen to help the team we have built during these exceptional times and we have manged like a lot of businesses to ‘scrape through’. I won’t pretend it has been easy and if i had not been at this stage of my life - and that of the Business I am not sure we would have been able to carry on.
However, as the number of enquiries and diversified work continues to grow I am confident the Team will step up and be looking after our clients well into this next decade! I will still have a role to play, but increasingly in the background as I help develop the people and organisations I work with.
