New jobs to help get everyone more active

To help York residents be among the UK's most active, City of York Council and its partners are racing to recruit the right people to set them on their way.

The council's Sport and Active Leisure team has recently restructured its resources and secured a range of external funding to put in place a number of new posts. The new post holders will aim to inspire adults, young people and children to be more active more often and bring to life a series of vibrant activity programmes. These will run in tandem with the city's Just 30 campaign and alongside plans to enhance and increase the spaces and places in which people can be active.

The new posts include a Sports Participation Officer, an Active Living Officer (leading cycling, walking, workplace health), an Older Person's Officer (leading Fit as a Fiddle, 50+ activities), Exercise pathways (developing referral and signposting activities, delivering Mind Exercise Nutrition Do it!(MEND) schemes and making links to social care providers), a Disability Adults Officer, a Disability Young People Officer, a Rugby League Service Area Coordinator, a Cycling City Officer (leading targeted cycling programmes) and a Young Person's Activity Officer (developing school and sports club links and encouraging young people to take up physical activity).

Over the next three years, funding for these posts has been secured as follows:

  • £623k CYC funds which also provides the partnership funding required to lever the external funding
  • £198k from Sport England's Community Investment Fund
  • £75k from the rugby football league and York Knights
  • £24k from the Cycling City York scheme
  • £24k from the Aiming High project

Jo Gilliland, Head of Sport and Active Leisure at City of York Council said: "We are delighted that securing this external funding means that we can provide a stronger and more varied offer of sports and physical activity programmes to the residents of York.

"As well as helping everybody become more active, more often and enjoy the health and cultural benefits physical activity can bring, the new posts also allow us to concentrate on those residents who need more of a helping hand to get active."

Posted: 03/06/2010

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