SportTayside and Fife

Steven Maloney - Gymnastics Development Manager
SportTayside & Fife
Lynch Sports Centre
South Road
Dundee
DD2 4SR
Tel: 01382 431851
E-mail: steven.maloney@dundeecity.gov.uk

SportTayside & Fife is a Sports Partnership established to strengthen infrastructure, leading to sustainable increases in participation and improved performance in sport across Tayside & Fife. 

The partnership consists of four Local Authority partners in Angus, Fife, Perth & Kinross and Dundee City Councils, Perth & Kinross Leisure Ltd and selected Scottish Governing Bodies of Sport (SGB's).  Additionally, the Partnership works closely with each of the Local Authorities respective Sports Councils, sportscotland, colleges and universities throughout the area and the Tayside and Fife Institute of Sport (TFIS), a support network for identified national athletes. These partnerships will ensure that the full pathway for each sport is supported within Tayside and Fife.

The partnership employs Sport Specific Development Managers for each selected sport along with a generic Coach Development Manager.  The Managers will not only deliver specific programmes but will take the strategic lead to ensure that all partners are working towards the same Development Plan for their sport in Tayside & Fife.  This will ensure that each partner's annual plans contribute to the overall targets and there is no duplication between partners' work providing a more co-ordinated and integrated delivery for each sport.

This document sets out the vision for Gymnastics in Tayside and Fife. It identifies four specific 'Focus Areas', the 'Goal' for each and the 'Aims' that all partners have agreed they will contribute to achieving during 2006 -10.  The plan focuses on the high level needs of Gymnastics. Roles, responsibilities and detailed actions will be included in each partner's annual plans, which will be monitored and evaluated to show the impact the Partnership is having on sport.

Scottish Gymnastics
Vision:
"For Gymnastics to become a key sport for the delivery of grass roots exercise in Scotland, while improving the pathway for all who wish to exploit them"

This vision is taken from Scottish Gymnastics strategic plan 2006 - 2012. It is my belief that this 3 Year plan for Tayside and Fife will develop and enhance the sport of Gymnastics within the region during the plan period and for many years to come. As Chief Executive Officer of Scottish Gymnastics, it gives me great pleasure to support and endorse the Tayside & Fife Gymnastics Development Plan. Scottish Gymnastics and SportTayside & Fife have committed to a partnership agreement which will ensure that all our ambitions and targets for the sport are worked towards together over the next four years.

Scottish Gymnastics professional staff and I look forward to working, through the SportTayside & Fife Gymnastics Development Manager, with each of the four Local Authorities as well as the many partners from the professional, voluntary and club sectors within the region.

Thank you in advance for your support of this plan and your contribution towards ensuring that Gymnastics plays a major role in the advancement of sport within Scotland.

Mike Roberts
Chief Executive
Scottish Gymnastics

read the full Document: SportTayside and Fife