Publication Scheme contact details
Lisa Percival
Information Governance Manager Sport England
3rd Floor Victoria House
Bloomsbury Square
London WC1B 4SE
Email:foi@sportengland.org
Tel: 0207 273 1680
About this Publication Scheme
Sport England’s publication scheme sets out
information about who we are, how we are organised, how we spend
public and lottery money, what our goals are and how well we are
doing in meeting those goals.
The purpose of this publication scheme is to ensure that we are
transparent and open in how we spend public and lottery money.
Some of the information is available via links to pages on our
website. Where there are no links, you may write to us a the
address on the top right of this page for the information. We will
tell you if there is a charge for the information.
Where we make a charge for information, we will tell you in this
Publication Scheme. Cheques should be made payable to Sport
England.
Some of the documents referred to in our publication scheme may
contain information that is exempt under the Freedom of Information
Act. Where this is the case, the information will be deleted but we
will indicate where such deletions have been made and which
exemptions apply.
If you wish to make a request for information that is not
available via our publication scheme, you may make a Freedom of
Information request.
Who we are and what we do
Sport England is the trading name of the English
Sports Council which was created by Royal Charter in 1997 to
foster, support and encourage the development of sport and sporting
excellence.
You can download a PDF of our Royal
Charter
Details of the National Lottery Act in 1993 can be viewed on the
the
UK Statute Law Database
The Financial Directions and Memoranda are
available on request.
Sport England is also answerable to Parliament through the
Department for Culture Media and Sport, which is its sponsoring
department.
Sport England carries out its objectives mainly by granting
awards to sporting bodies and by making representations on planning
applications which affect playing fields.
Sport England receives its funding from two different sources:
from the government and from the National Lottery. The Annual
Funding Agreement sets out the funding that Sport England will
receive from the Government. A copy of this document is available
on request. More information about our current awards programmes
can be viewed in our funding section.
You can find information about how Sport England is structured
and the roles of the Main Board, the Executive Team, our regional
offices and the eight Sport England Directorates on the page,
How we are structured. This information
includes biographical details of Main Board and Executive Team
members.
Sport England works with numerous partner organisations,
including its sister organisations, UK Sport and the Youth
Sport Trust. You can find out more about work with our partners
in our most recent Annual Report.
The locations and contact details for Sport England can be found
on the following pages:
How to contact Sport England
Local offices and contacts
Main office - travel information
Sport England contacts for local
government
What we spend and how we spend it
You can search for Lottery awards made by Sport England on DCMS'
Lottery Grants
website.
Sport England is developing a page where you will be able to
view quarterly Exchequer awards made by Sport England. This will be
available in the near future.
Sport England’s Annual Reports set out Sport England’s
activities for the past year and accounts for how public money has
been spent. Our Annual Reports can be published on our Annual Reports page.
We will be publishing a summary of our Annual Budget from
February/March 2010
Sport England receives funding through agreement with DCMS via
the Government Spending Review process, which sets a three-year
funding settlement. Sport England’s latest funding agreement can be
viewed here. It should be noted that we will post this agreement
annually but it is subject to some change throughout the year.
Pay received by Board Members and senior Sport England
colleagues is listed at pages 37-43 of the Annual
Report 2008-2009.
From 2009/10, Sport England will publish expenses of Board
Members and senior Sport England colleagues in its Annual Report.
You can download a PDF of our expenses
policy.
We have some information about Sport England’s current
competitive contracts and Terms of Trade on our Tenders and contracts page. We are developing a
site that will give information about the contracts that Sport
England currently holds as well as contracts going out to tender.
The site will also give information about any major projects or
Public Private Partnerships or PFI initiatives.
What are our priorities and how are we doing?
Sport
England’s Strategy sets out Sport England’s goals for
2008-2011.
These goals are:
Grow
These targets account for 15% of our investment.
We are measuring how much progress we have made towards this
goal through the Active People
Survey.
Sustain
- ·More people satisfied with their sporting experience
- ·25% fewer 16-18 year olds dropping out of at least five
sports
These targets account for 60% of our investment.
We are measuring how much progress we have made towards this
goal through the Satisfaction Survey.
Excel
- · Improved talent development in at least 25 sports
This target accounts for 25% of our investment.
Sport England is investing in 46 national governing bodies to
improve talent development. Sport England has set the
NGBs
indvidual challenging
targets to meet that are qualitative as well as quantitative. We
will be reporting on how they are doing on a yearly basis, starting
in April 2010.
One of the measures of how well we are doing in the field of
children and young people is our contribution to the five hour
offer. The School
Sports Survey will give you some information about young people
participating in club sport and young leaders and volunteers.
Sport England’s publishes an annual
Business Plan.
Sport England sends quarterly
reports to DCMS giving a summary of performance against key
outcome measures.
How we make decisions
Major policy proposals and decisions are made by Sport England’s
Main Board. Agendas and Minutes for Main Board meetings are
published online.
Agendas will be loaded onto the website 4 working days before
the meeting takes place. Board papers are available on request by
writing. There is a charge for Board papers of £5 per paper.
The Executive Team makes operational decisions about Sport
England.
The Projects Team makes decisions on funding applications for
major sporting projects.
Guidance notes for all of our current award programmes can be
found on the funding pages of our
website.
Policies and procedures
If you would like to see any of the following
Sport England policies, please write to the address above. Sport
England charges £5 for every policy supplied:
- Anti-Fraud & Corruption
- Code of Conduct
- Conflicts of Interest
- Data Protection
- Delegated Authorities
- Email and Internet Acceptable Use
- Equal Opportunities
- Freedom of Information
- Gifts & Hospitality
- Procurement Policy & Governance
- Records Management
- Safeguarding and Protecting Children and Young People
- Travel & Subsistence
- Whistleblowing
Sport England has a published complaints procedure
Lists and registers
Sport England has a register of its assets. If you would like
any information from this register please write, using the address
above.
Sport England holds a list of gifts and hospitality provided to
senior colleagues and Board members. If you would like to see this
list, please write to the address above.
There is a £5 charge for copies of the register.
The interests of senior colleagues are listed at pages 77 and
104 of the Annual Report
Sport England will publish a Freedom of Information disclosure
log from 1 November 2009.
The services we offer
Advice on developing sporting policy, including:
- Creating regional and sub-regional policy
- Creating local policy
- Examples of core strategy policies and
- Guiding principles for sport and spatial planning
can be viewed on our developing policies
for sport section.
Sport England publishes detailed design
guidance notes for a whole host of facilities.
Our Sports Facilities Calculator (SFC)
is a planning tool which helps to estimate the amount of demand for
key community sports facilities that is created by a given
population.
Active Places is a
public database of sports facilities in England, which helps get
people active by providing free information on where to take part
and by showing them where to go on a map.
Active Places
Power provides a planning tool for sports facilities. It is
designed to assist in investment decisions and the development of
infrastructure improvement strategies for sport. You will have to
subscribe to use this tool.
Sport England publishes a guide to the production of playing
pitch strategies called Towards a Level
Playing Field.
Advice on securing improved sport and recreation facilities in
their areas through planning contributions can be viewed in
our Planning Contributions Kitbag.
Other planning tools and guidance notes can be ac.cessed on our
Planning Tools and Guidance page
Since August 1996 Sport England has been a ‘statutory consultee’
on planning applications affecting playing fields. This means that
Sport England must be consulted by the local planning authority
(LPA) when a relevant planning application is received. We have
produced a guidance note for local authorities explaining these
consultation arrangements.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, Sport England must
disclose any information it holds to anyone who asks for it, unless
an exemption applies. You can find out more on our Freedom of Information page