Agenda and minutes

An apology for absence was received from Councillor Nuala Fennelly, Portfolio Holder for Children, Young People and Schools.

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Decision Record from the meeting held on 28th July, 2020, (previously circulated) was noted.</AI2>

Cabinet considered a report which proposed acceptance of up to £6.975m further grant funding from Sport for England, to maximise opportunities from the Local Delivery Pilot for a further 4 year period, to deliver Phase 4 and 5 of the Investment Plan to help address physical inactivity levels across the Borough.

To date, the Council had secured significant investment from Sport for England in 3 phases to develop a variety of themes and project areas previously approved by Cabinet in 2018 and 2019.

The proposed funding would provide further resource to develop and enhance the 3 phases already in place, and would assist with capacity building and evaluation.

Details of the Phase 4 of the Local Delivery Pilot Investment Plan covering Active Communities, Future Parks, Active Travel and Dance, were set out at paragraphs 26 to 44 of the report.  Phase 5 proposals, covering Capacity and Evaluation, were detailed at paragraphs 45 to 47 of the report.

Councillor Nigel Ball, Cabinet Member for Public Health, Leisure and Culture, in introducing the report highlighted the benefits this would bring to Doncaster Borough, and in particular, emphasised the following points contained in the report:-

“Increasing the levels of inactivity will not simply be addressed by encouraging or educating our residents to do more exercise or sport.

We feel that we need to provide the right support, policy and environments so residents are able to be active as part of their daily lives.

Doncaster residents have the right to be able to walk safely to the shops, play in the park, cycle to work, have access to good quality leisure centres and be walking distance from a local and affordable dance, or a yoga class.

This report sets out how we might collectively activate these rights of our residents while also challenging our decisions on what might negatively impact on how active and vibrant a Borough we live in should be.

This is our largest investment request to Sport England to date, and will provide resources up until 2025 to develop sustainable approaches to embed movement into all aspects of life in Doncaster.

We hope from this to provide a legacy, a lasting legacy.

The bid includes both revenue and capital expenditure.  These are detailed within the report, but will include:-

·         Supporting residents and communities to co-design and develop hyper-local solutions to the barriers that get in the way of being active;

·         Working with the dance sector to expand their support for residents who are inactive, so there are opportunities to access affordable sessions in all parts of the Borough;

·         Community engagement on low traffic neighbourhoods, school street proposals and to trial approaches to address inclusivity;

·         We will also look at £1.6m to develop opportunities for activities, and to support volunteers in parks across the Borough; and

·         £3.2m of capital expenditure to provide improvements to 15 parks across the Borough in our most needy areas.

There will be further opportunities to request funding based on what works well, and to take advantage of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.