YOUNG PEOPLE PROGRAMME

• CSC – Stourport, Bewdley, Worcester, Birmingham involved with more than 1000 children since Christmas, more than 400 regularly indoors at all three clubs and 150 on the water at the Clubs

• Indoor rowing in schools (Worcestershire) is spreading with WFDC purchasing indoor machines for all their secondary schools and starting to set up indoor leagues and competitions – end result is to contact clubs about prizes of (come and try it rowing sessions) - with a competition planned for April 30th for Worcestershire secondary schools – run by county competition manager and assisted by ARA staff – they want to give prizes of taster on water for winners are the following clubs interested in helping? – Bewdley, Stourport, Worcester, Upton, Evesham?

• Sandwell are about to employ part time coach for indoor rowing and wish to start rowing on the water.

• Sculling camps being run by CSC’s at above clubs over Easter (with water!)

• 222 juniors from 15 schools and 1 club in WM attended the NJ Indoor Champs in London - 2 gold medals and 1 bronze

DEVELOPMENT

• Club Mark Clubs – Birmingham Rowing Club applied.
• Recreational Rowing Accreditation - Upton
• Club & Coach funding – interviews for adaptive coach based in Birmingham just held – final interviews to be a practical – April or May

COACH EDUCATION

• UKCC L2 –Worcester(12) where 2 candidates were assessed for tutoring Stuart Andrews and Sarah Hough
• Assessors – we need at east 2 other assessors in the region – must be bronze or L3 standard
• Dry Instructors Awards – WFDC (9) BSRA (14)

PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME

• Regional junior trials– organised by Mike Vetch – unfortunately cancelled due to high water & winds – selections done by MV & JA based on known form and past results – we would both like to suggest that regional juniors wanting to be selected for regional team should attend Stourport Head in Nov, and Worcester SB (or big boats if wanting crew selections) 2 fold reason – (1)support regional events (2) make any cancellation of trials and selection by past results easier

• WCS – is WMRRC approaching WCS about no HP programmes in region

FUTURE / INFORMATION

• Regionalisation Sport England - need to identify Regional/individual Club plans – answers from Ross, Bewdley, Ironbridge, Evesham, Upton, Birmingham Uni, BSRA, Warwick Uni, Warwick STILL NEED INFORMATION FROM ALL OTHER CLUBS -

• Regional Plan – this was very much a rushed job last time – because of the introduction of Regional Sport England delivery, County Sports Partnership delivery and Community Sports Networks, the next regional plan will need input form ALL clubs, Clubs thinking of applying for funding will need to have identified their needs and made sure they are in the WMRRC regional plan, as CSN’s will check to see that clubs are in forward plans for governing body and regionally (especially as CSN’s will have a strong influence on allocation of regional funding)

• County plans will need to be written to help the above process – I have already made a start on these based on previous information supplied from all clubs, but will need to update this asap – so will send out a questionnaire to Clubs, so will need appropriate contacts – see above comments – re clubs replied

• Competition managers – all counties to have these inplace by end 2008 – there WILL be some interaction in the WM between these and ARA – so competition dates, especially for schools don’t clash

• Birmingham/Worcester Universities Sports Coach UK regional coaching centre application – no further news.

• Clubmark clubs need to keep on top of their updates – Sport England are awarding the overseeing of this to a company, Clubmark is recommended for Clubs seeking grants – and those that seek grants should be aware that the ARA is consulted on these.

• Sporting giants – applications and interest – which clubs are interested?

• PE & Sport Strategy for Young People – extending activities (14-19yrs age) – possible use to Clubs if working with local Sport Development Officers as programme is looking at 8-10 week activity programmes that feed into clubs (eg Learn to Row) as part of the governments 5 hour offer schools initiative schools have funding to access for the 3hrs outside school hours (5hrs = 2hrs inside school time, 3hrs outside)

• Volunteering placements – Step into Sport and Volunteer Organisations – a national network is being set up and CSP’s will support the placement of people into clubs – only Clubmark and Club-link programmes

• National School Sports Week – 30th June – July 4th (Henley week) very high profile with new activity launches to raise profile of sport in and out of school – annual event – PDM’s & Competition managers will know what’s happening

• Awards4All application nearly finished for WMRRC – for coach education subsidy