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The Islington Story
“
The tool
helped the
group think
strategically
about their
work.”
The Islington Sports
Development Workforce
Group has been running
for over 10 years and
is made up of a wide
range of local partners,
including Arsenal in the
Community, GLL, Access
to Sport and London
Sport, among others. London Sport’s Building a
Workforce for the Future,
we recognised that the
workforce review needed
to consider a wide range
of factors. The Workforce
Principles Tool, therefore,
enabled the whole group
to contribute together via
a simple approach.”
With a focus on increasing
activity, the workforce
group connected with
UK Coaching to review
the delivery of sport and
physical activity in the
borough in order to set
new workforce priorities
and help more people get
active. For Chair of the Islington
Sports Development
Workforce Group,
John Thorne, the tool
helped the group think
strategically about their 19
work. It gave them
direction and discipline
in their thinking and
made them consider
approaches to increase
and keep people engaged
in physical activity.
London Sport’s
Relationship Manager
Rhian Horlock recognised
that the Workforce
Principles Tool could
help the group review
how organisations in
the borough engage and
support their coaching
workforce.
“By exploring a wide
range of insight and
best practice from Sport
England, charities and
“My advice to other
organisations about using
the tool is to quite simply,
do it. Use it. It worked
for us and it can work for
you.”
Islington Sports Workforce
Development Group Chair,
John Thorne