Aiming for the top flight

The GVA Robson Lloyd Community Sports Academy is about generating sustainability for local sports clubs. This can only be achieved by working alongside the local councils to inject new and exciting facilities into the community. By maximising the potential of sports clubs and sports villages, we can encourage more children to play at grassroots level. In addition, we can also involve minority and ethnic groups into a diverse range of social and recreational activities.

The Planned Activities

• to involve schools curricula
• holiday provisions
• regular clubs, for example junior teams
• disabled provisions
• girls football
• adult provisions
• to establish a programme for all sports activities overseen by a licenced coach
• to provide specific coaching for individuals and goal keeping coaches, as well as sports coaching and training
• child education on basic nutrition, drug awareness with, where appropriate, police and fire involvement, through classroom seminar sessions linked to sports activities
• coaching improvement for coaches and referees