What is it?
In February 2005, Darlington District Youth and Community Association in partnership with Darlington Borough Council and Darlington PCT secured funding for a new three year £184,470 community sports project, the Zone Active Project.
Active England is a programme that encourages innovative community sports projects that promote and widen access to sport and physical activity all over the country. The Zone Active Project is part funded by Sport England and the Big Lottery Fund but also has match funding from local associations and organisations.
Who is it for?
It was proposed that through the Zone Active project, participation levels in sport and physical activity will be significantly increased in the wards of Eastbourne, Lascelles and Park East in Darlington.
What is the Aim and Objective?
To increase the number of people participating in sport and physical activity in the wards of Eastbourne, Park East and Lascelles, through a framework of effective partnership working, multi activity environments, and a wide range of new participation opportunities.
Key Performance Indicators
• 2000 participants attending at least one activity. Participants can only be counted once no matter how many times they attend.
• A throughput of 3000 people. Throughput is defined as the total number of participants in each activity or session totalled for the month. This counts the number of places or heads for every activity on every day of the month and adds them together. An individual can appear several times.
• 100 coaches, leaders, teachers or instructors involved in the project that have coached once in the past year.
• 125 people gaining sports related qualifications. If an individual gains more than one qualification, they can be counted each time they do this. Qualifications include; NGB recognised qualifications, community sports leaders, junior sports leaders, running sports courses, child protection in sport, sports first aid and sports academic qualifications.
Click on the links below for reports relating to the Zone Active Project.
End of Year 1 - 2005-2006 (PDF)
Zone Active Report April-September 2007 (PDF)