Sport and 

Cultural Services

Ø      The Council has recently opened a state of the art soccer facility in the deprived ward of Newton. The £130,000 facility is now being managed by local sports clubs and community groups. 

Ø      Work has begun on the new Droylsden Swimming Pool. The £3.1m Council funded facility will replace the existing building which has reached the end of its useful life. 

Ø      Work has also started on the new Tameside Stadium, a 4000 capacity football stadium and full sized artificial turf pitch at Richmond Street. The Football Foundation has made a £520,000  contribution towards the development.

Ø      Tameside Sports Federation has been established with a view to supporting further facility improvements together with meeting a  social inclusion agenda.

Ø      Bids to the Football Foundation for the development of Pinfold Playing Fields and to Sport England for the development of a sports facility at Oxford Park have been approved. These financial contributions total £1.45m towards a total project costs of £2.15m. Both facilities, which will serve two of the most deprived wards in the country, will be ready for use by the end of 2005.

Ø      Coaching In Primary Schools has expanded  to include over 3,000 young people each week and increase in number of after school clubs and inter school tournaments.

Ø      Partnerships with Childrens Fund, Youth Offending Team and Connexions has allowed the introduction of a comprehensive sports scheme that targets young people at risk of being socially excluded.

Ø      A new volunteer mentoring scheme has seen over 50 local people being introduced to sports coaching and supported through work experience and links to local clubs. 

Museums and Galleries

Ø      This has been our busiest year; throughout the service we have attracted over 173,000 visitors.

Ø      This year we saw a major expansion of the service with the transfer of the Setantii Visitor Centre to the Museums and Galleries and the inclusion a new section on Wartime Tameside with an air raid shelter experience and additional interactive activities for family visitors.

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Ø      This year we have seen yet another increase in the number of school pupils visiting our sites. With over 8500 visits by school pupils, the majority were from the Tameside area.

Ø      In the past year we have had some very significant exhibitions at the Art Galleries; including the prestigious ‘Parampera Portraits’ which features pictures of significant members of the South Asian community. We also had a solo exhibition by the Royal Academician Norman Adams.

Ø      At Portland Basin Museum we have had a really successful year with the very popular ‘Back to Belle Vue’ exhibition and the Sixties themed ‘Scootermania’

Ø      We are also planning to do a partnership project with the Youth Service having gained a Heritage Lottery Fund award for £25,000.

Ø      There are several important exhibitions in the pipeline, including an exhibition on the Crimean War at the Museum of the Manchester Regiment and an exhibition looking back on the history of football in the Tameside area. 

Arts and Events 

Ø      During the past few months we have organised a D Day-major event involving British Legions, Local History Forum, Youth Services and Veterans.

Ø      We have led on a St. Georges Day launch of new event with the Kings Regiment Marching through Ashton.

Ø      Our staff have been responsible for a Mini Mela event in Holy Trinity where we launched our Cow-mooonity Dream as part of the Cow Parade in Manchester.

Ø      In the near future we have firm plans for Bronze Statues-Mottram, Ashton and Denton to be installed. The first will be of Lowry in Mottram in November.

Ø      To support local Brass Bands we will be providing £15,000 in grants to 3 brass bands.

Ø      We will link with Diwali to develop a new event working closely with the community and commissioning of professional work

 Countryside 

Ø      Countryside Service has applied for three Green Flag Awards this year for excellence in the management of key countryside sites.Park Bridge, Werneth Low and Lymefields. Will know if successful by early November

Ø      The Service is in the process of establishing two new local nature reserves at Hulmes and Hardy Woods

Ø      We are working with Tameside’s Rights of Way officer and key land owners on an Open Access Land Plan to make available significant walking routes previously unavailable to the public.

Ø      We have appointed an additional Ranger to the Countryside Service Team to promote Park Bridge Heritage Centre.

 Youth Services 

Ø      A group of young people from Droylsden had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to write, act and edit a professional film. ‘Lost Boy’, which received its premiere at the Imperial War Museum. (picture attached). They are travelling to Holland on the 15^th September with the Imperial War Museum to visit war graves and continue this magnificent project                                       

Ø      A comprehensive programme of ‘Positive Activities for Young People’ has been organised in the school holidays to divert young people from anti-social behaviours and give them something positive and worthwhile to do.  This has included “a Month in the Park” in Dukinfield, “Create a Garden” in Haughton Green, a video and arts project in Hyde and much more!

Ø      The Youth Service has just been awarded and extra £240,000 per year for 2 years to extend this project and appoint key workers to support the young people into  education, employment and training.

Ø      120 young people aged 16-years took part in a 6-month programme culminating in a weeks outdoor activities residential as part of an ‘Opportunity Knox’ scheme.

Ø      A group of young people aged 16-17 years organised a trip for 20 disabled young people to Blackpool. 

Ø      15 young people aged 16-17 years have passed NVQ level 1 in Youth work and are now ready to be the youth workers of the future! ~ this will be repeated in October

Ø      30 new staff recruited to join the youth service.  They are now being inducted and trained, and will provide much needed additional staff to provide an even better high quality service for young people.  They begin on September 6^th.     

Ø      Youth Diversionary monies have been successfully applied for and will enable us to provide training in drugs and alcohol for youth workers and patrollers, for black young people in Ashton around drugs and alcohol

Ø      projects for POD / detached teams around drugs and alcohol

This will begin in October.