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: October 2014
Work Experience: Previously a consultant for Press Red leading national programmes including Sport Makers. Prior experience as Club and Volunteer Development Manager for PRO-ACTIVE North London CSP and various other sports development positions for the British Heart Foundation National Centre, Loughborough College, a local authority, a national disability sports charity and an School Sports Partnership.
Lead Work Areas: NGBs, Children and Young People and workforce
Favourite Quote: "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans" (John Lennon)
Start date: Jan 2019
Work experience: 15 years in health and wellbeing; beginning as a personal trainer, moving up to gym manager, onto patient-facing and managerial roles in NHS public health and most recently Director for Health@Work, overseeing operations for a national charity delivering workplace wellbeing, with an emphasis on strategy, development and income generation.
Lead Work Areas: Developing new business opportunities and leading on the workplace offer for Active Partnerships
Favourite quote: “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing" Muhammad Ali
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: 2010
Work Experience: A career in sports management including establishing and leading the Active Partnership for Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes and acting as a non-Executive Director including with the Sport and Recreation Alliance.
Lead Work Areas: Representing Active Partnerships with key stakeholders, growing the impact and guiding the future direction of the network.
Favourite Quote: “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” (Henry Ford)
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