A charitable company has been established to represent, support and lead the Active Partnerships and increase the individual and collective impact. The company comprises of a staff team and board. Please do not hesitate to contact us whatever your query:
Start Date: Sept 2010
Work Experience: Previously manager for Oxfordshire Active Sports Partnership, various other sports development roles for Aylesbury Vale and South Oxfordshire.
Lead Work Areas: Marketing and Communications, Equity, Safeguarding, Women and Girls
Favourite quote: Be someone who makes someone else look forward to tomorrow
Start Date: March 2014
Work Experience: Previously Director for PRO-ACTIVE North London CSP and before that a variety of sports development roles across the UK.
Lead Work Areas: Improvement / supporting Active Partnerships to be high performing, National NGB / club / coach / volunteer development projects and national team operations.
Favourite Quote: It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be.
Start Date: July 2021
Nigel has a long and a successful involvement with Active Partnerships from both his executive and his non-executive roles. He is CE of a large Active Partnership and a former NGB lead for the network, leading and chairing a national group of Active Partnership managers involved in NGB work.
He is also a non-executive Board member and Chair of Governance with the Yorkshire Netball Association and Chairman of Oldham Community Leisure – an Industrial and Provident Society operating nine leisure facilities on behalf of Oldham Council.
Nigel brings a strong track record in the sector coupled with experience of strategy development and governance within a number of related organisations. He is also an accredited sports tutor and tennis coach.
“Through increased insight into changing customer needs and new national strategies we are entering into a new phase of how the sector supports people to take part in sport and Active Partnerships have an important and unique role in this. I want to do what I can to support Active Partnerships in their development by being a member of the Active Partnership national board.”
Start Date: March 2014
Work Experience: Over 10 years working in the sport and physical activity sector, including 6 years with the Active Partnership for Leicester-Shire and Rutland, and 4 years with Active Partnership national team focusing on driving high performance across the network.
Lead Work Areas: Understanding and applying learning to support Active Partnerships in building on strengths, driving improvement and achieving goals.
Favourite Quote: We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Start Date: January 2017
Work Experience: A Chartered Accountant and for the last six years Finance Manager for WheelPower, the national charity for wheelchair sport based at Stoke Mandeville.
Favourite Quote: Life is either a daring adventure or
Lead Work Areas: Finance...and anything number related
Favourite Quote: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all