Background
Broadgreen International School (BIS) is a mixed secondary school with trust status located in Liverpool, Merseyside. It’s also a premier international school that’s not only based within one of the most deprived wards in the city, but also targets and is widely attended by, students from challenging socio-economic backgrounds.
The Challenge
The school has some great facilities that weren’t in use 100% of the time. As part of their commitment to engage the wider community they wanted to further explore open access to the school’s facilities outside of curriculum time.
The BIS in-house team recognised that they didn’t have all of the information or resources needed push the idea forward. So, they turned to Merseyside Sports Partnership, who they had been put in contact with via their network, for support
Merseyside Sport Support
- Using our proprietary ‘Occupancy Survey’ tool, to survey their facilities in relation to their availability.
- Analysing the market locally by using existing data sets and cross-referencing them with local insight.
- Working with them to define their facilities offer in a way which would be relevant to that local market.
- Drafting key elements for a first stage business plan in conjunction with the BIS in-house team that reflected the findings and ensured they could turn analysis into action.
The Active Difference
BIS were so pleased with the first round of work that they subsequently commissioned Merseyside Sports Partnership to produce a further piece of work to complement it. That document, a bid to secure FA Multi-Use Sports Ground (MUGA) funding successfully met its objective. Merseyside Sports Partnership contributed to this by providing data, research and insight that demonstrated the need for a MUGA at Broadgreen and how this in turn would increase participation.
In 2014, BIS secured a total of £285,274 from the Football Association. This was a fantastic achievement to all those involved.