For info I've forwarded the below email to Sport England re the proposed development of the Higgs Centre.
If/when I get a response I'll update accordingly.
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Your ref: WM/COV/2016/42826/S
App Ref: FUL/2016/1458
Site: Allard Way Coventry CV3 1HW
Proposal: Extension to the Alan Higgs Centre
Mr Thomas,
Can you please confirm Sport England's views on the above planning application.
Have any issues or concerns been highlighted regarding the proposal?
Can you please confirm if Sport England are aware that, based on the current plans, if the application were approved it would require Coventry City Football Club's Academy to leave the site and this would most likely mean the end of the Academy.
This would not only take away a vitally important source of players for the club, but also remove a facility for local children to participate in sports under the guidance of highly qualified and trained staff.
Has this been taken into account in your considerations?
Furthermore, can any assistance be provided by Sport England to ensure the academy remains at this location on a long term basis.
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated and please confirm receipt of this correspondence.
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He didn't because he didn't want too ! About time people realised what he is all aboutAnother thing Anderson should have done rather than bitching about how nasty wasps are.
And that is what exactly?He didn't because he didn't want too ! About time people realised what he is all about
Does your friend of a friend not say he is a really great guy?He didn't because he didn't want too ! About time people realised what he is all about
if don't know now you never willAnd that is what exactly?
if don't know now you never will
Sport England has recently published it's new strategy "Towards an active nation", which will guide all of their decision making. This document is a response to DCMS's strategy document from December 2015.For info I've forwarded the below email to Sport England re the proposed development of the Higgs Centre.
If/when I get a response I'll update accordingly.
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Your ref: WM/COV/2016/42826/S
App Ref: FUL/2016/1458
Site: Allard Way Coventry CV3 1HW
Proposal: Extension to the Alan Higgs Centre
Mr Thomas,
Can you please confirm Sport England's views on the above planning application.
Have any issues or concerns been highlighted regarding the proposal?
Can you please confirm if Sport England are aware that, based on the current plans, if the application were approved it would require Coventry City Football Club's Academy to leave the site and this would most likely mean the end of the Academy.
This would not only take away a vitally important source of players for the club, but also remove a facility for local children to participate in sports under the guidance of highly qualified and trained staff.
Has this been taken into account in your considerations?
Furthermore, can any assistance be provided by Sport England to ensure the academy remains at this location on a long term basis.
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated and please confirm receipt of this correspondence.
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It will be part funded yes, SBiTC is thr community arm of CCFC, they are separate entity and have charitable status specifically so they can access external funding sources like thr big lottery, children in need, etc that a private company can't. To try and pass it off as nothing to do with ccfc is a disingenuous.Very commendable, but it's not funded by CCFC is it?
Not what I was trying to do, hence the ? at the end of my post, It's just that I'm sure I've seen previous posters say it wasn't funded at all by CCFC, so I asked.To try and pass it off as nothing to do with ccfc is a disingenuous.
Fair enough CD. I'm just fed up at the club being hammered for doing nothing for thr community and ignoring what the SBiTC do, which is after all the community arm of the club.Not what I was trying to do, hence the ? at the end of my post, It's just that I'm sure I've seen previous posters say it wasn't funded at all by CCFC, so I asked.
With regard to SBITC, the club provide no funds and no staff to the charity. I've been through all their financial statements on the charity commission website. The contribution CCFC makes is 'matchday tickets, office space and space in the club programme'. These items are deemed to have 'nil commercial value'.
In summary, CCFC only give to SBITC things that cost them nothing.
Players wages don't cost anything for example?
Well, they do, but players will be paid regardless of their community work. So as an actual cost to CCFC, it's already on the balance sheet, so costs nothing in real terms. The official line in the accounts reads:
"During the year the charity received match day tickets as a donation from Coventry City Football Club.
The charity also receives financial support from the football club to the extent that premises are provided,
and webspace on the club website and editorial space in the match day programmes are granted, free of
any charges.
These donated tickets, services and facilities are not included in the statement of financial activities as
the charity is unable to reasonably quantify or measure the value of these donations."
My point is that I want the football club to look good, not bad. I understand about funding and I understand that giving things in kind has a cost to someone, but couldn't the club be doing more to reduce the creeping death of W*sps?
Why do the football look bad when it comes to sbitc? I don't get it?
Well, they do, but players will be paid regardless of their community work. So as an actual cost to CCFC, it's already on the balance sheet, so costs nothing in real terms. The official line in the accounts reads:
"During the year the charity received match day tickets as a donation from Coventry City Football Club.
The charity also receives financial support from the football club to the extent that premises are provided,
and webspace on the club website and editorial space in the match day programmes are granted, free of
any charges.
These donated tickets, services and facilities are not included in the statement of financial activities as
the charity is unable to reasonably quantify or measure the value of these donations."
Worthless. Valueless. Priceless. Three words that look similar but have totally different meanings. I shall try and help in plain English.What that says to me is we can't put a price on things like editorial and website space. What it doesn't say is that the club contribution is worthless.
I never said it was worthless, I said I want the club to do more. SBITC is one thing, and yes, there's a non-monetary contribution from CCFC, but what about other things they could be doing? The club's website still has the article called "The Way Forward" published in January 2015.What that says to me is we can't put a price on things like editorial and website space. What it doesn't say is that the club contribution is worthless.
I think he is saying the owners make promises & don't deliver.Still not sure what point you are trying to make?
I think he is saying the owners make promises & don't deliver.
Well Nick, I started out by refuting the fact that CCFC fund SBITC in some way. They don't.He started off saying about the club and sbitc to try and make the club look bad, but then moves on to say the only promise they have delivered is the sbitc one?
That's what I don't get.
Bit of a strange way to get that point across.
Well Nick, I started out by refuting the fact that CCFC fund SBITC in some way. They don't.
I don't have to do anything to make the club look bad, they're managing just fine on their own.
I have stated that I'd like them to do more than just the SBITC stuff and publicise that when they deliver on it.
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