Our Main Board is responsible for
setting direction, providing an extra level of governance and
giving our Executive Team support and advice.
Our Executive Team is responsible for
the day-to-day running of the business.
We work out of 11 offices across the country - one central
office in London, nine local offices and a shared service centre in
Loughborough which responds to all our funding applications and
queries.
The organisation is divided into eight directorates - each
focused on a key group or partners or area of work. They are:
Business Partnerships
The Business Partnerships directorate's role is to help existing
and potential partners and the public understand what we do and how
they can work with us - whether they want funding, advice or
information.
It also incorporates thee commercial team who are
responsible for finding and working with commercial partners to
generate private sector investment into community sport. The team
works collaboratively and innovatively to ensure partners derive
real benefit from their investment.
The team's Executive Director is Tanya
Joseph
Community Sport
Our Community Sport directorate helps get more children
and adults doing sport, and more sport, in local places, through
local partners and local programmes.
We provide impartial and expert advice to local authorities and
other community groups, and work closely with the county sports
partnerships to connect national and local priorities.
The directorate leads the Sportivate and Active Universities
programmes, provides National Lottery funding to the School Games,
works with national governing bodies to increase the number of
teenage participants and volunteers within sport, and carries out
broader work to transition young people into community sport.
The team's Executive Director is Mike Diaper.
Facilities and planning
It is the role of the facilities and
planning directorate to help create, support and maintain the
buildings, facilities and spaces we need to play sport.
They provide expert advice on facility design,
work with the planning system to generate more investment in sport
and are statutory consultees if a potential new development
threatens community playing fields. They maintain the Active Places
database - a comprehensive map of sports facilities throughout
England that helps local authorities plan their facility investment
more strategically.
They also work with the governing bodies we fund
and major asset owners to provide an overall view of facilities
across the country. We work to ensure they meet the needs of the
users, and provide a sustainable investment for the owners and
operators.
The team also manages our national sport centres, including Bisham
Abbey and Lilleshall. These centres provide national and
international standard training and competition in a range of
priority sports.
Finally, the team have worked closely with
LOCOG
and the Olympic Development Agency to manage our investment in
the Aquatic Centre, the VeloPark and the canoing centre in
Broxbourne to ensure these facilities are suitable for community
use as part of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
legacy.
The team's executive director is Charles
Johnston.
Corporate Services
Our finance and corporate services directorate is responsible
for all our back-office functions including finance, ICT and legal
services. They ensure the organisation has the systems, processes
and technology it needs to operate smoothly.
Our chief operating officer is Rona Chester
NGB and Sport
Our NGB and Sport directorate's job is
to help sport's national governing bodies achieve their
participation, satisfaction and talent development targets.
Relationship managers work closely with the governing bodies to
ensure our £480 million investment in them delivers a good return.
While our experts in areas such as equality and diversity,
coaching, and volunteering help them tackle specific issues.
The directorate funds national partners, such as
Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation, Sports coach UK and
Streetgames to deliver specific services that underpin the the work
of the governing bodies.
It helps to run Playground to Podium, a
programme that identifies and supports potential Paralympians.
Finally, it oversees two of our funding
programmes - the Innovation Fund and Themed Rounds. And it is
responsible for working with the other sports councils to recognise
sports and national governing bodies that are then eligible for
Lottery funding.The directorate is run by our two executive
directors of sport Lisa O'Keefe and Phil Smith.
Research and Strategy
Our research directorate provides
the evidence community sport needs to make the case
for sport, monitor our progress against our target and learn
about what works and why. Our Active
People Survey measure participation amongst adults, whilst the
satisfaction survey analyses how happy
people who play sport are with their sporting experience.
We don't just generate statistics, however, we
use this data to help us understand what
motivate people to play sport - and what puts them off.
The executive director for research and strategy
is Rona Chester