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: 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