SDS young persons Sport Panel                     Â
Thursday 25 February 2015
Meeting Minutes
In attendance: Jennifer Livingstone, Heather Lowden, Catherine Goodfellow, Colette Martin, Shelby Watson, Ross Foley, Caitlyn Ross, Callum Sloan, Gemma Lumsdaine, Danielle Joyce, Hope Gordon
Apologies: Lewis McConnell, Mitchell Graham, Alan Gray, Stefan Hoggan
Website articles
It was agreed amongst the group that all panel members would write a website article for the SDS website over the next 12 months. The article should be about an event you have been involved in, helped co-ordinate, taken part in as an athlete and any courses/workshop you have attended for personal development. Each panel member has been allocated a month over the next 12 months to write the article which should be sent to JL by the end of the allocated month and only needs to be a couple of paragraphs long. For those who were not at the meeting we have allocated you a month.
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| Month | Name |
| March 2016 | Gemma Lumsdaine |
| April 2016 | Callum Sloan |
| May 2016 | Shelby Watson |
| June 2016 | Hope Gordon |
| July 2016 | Caitlyn Ross |
| August 2016 | Danielle Joyce |
| September 2016 | Colette Martin |
| October 2016 | Lewis McConnell |
| November 2016 | Ross Foley |
| December 2016 | Mitchel Graham |
| January 2017 | Alan Gray |
| February 2017 | Stefan Hoggan |
Future meeting dates
| Day | Date | Time | Venue |
| Thursday | 2 June 2016 | 6.00pm – 8.00pm | Stirling University Swimming pool meeting room |
| Sunday | 2 October 2016 | All day (definite times TBC) | Stirling Court Hotel – SDS Branch Conference and AGM |
| Thursday | 8 December 2016 | 6.00pm – 8.00pm | Stirling University Swimming pool meeting room |
SDS National Events
It was agreed that the young persons panel would be represented at National events. Can those of you who were not at the meeting contact JL
| Event | Date | Venue | Panel member |
| Sportshall Athletics | 3 March 2016 | Grangemouth Sports Complex | Shelby Watson
Caitlyn Ross |
| West Parasport Day | 8 March | Ravenscraig Sports Centre, Motherwell | Colette Martin
Shelby Watson |
| East Parasport Day | 18 March 2016 | Forresters High School, Edinburgh | Ross Foley
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| Visual Impairment Day | 19 March 2016 | Forresters High School, Edinburgh | Shelby Watson
Colette Martin Ross Foley Hope Gordon (from 11am) |
| Senior Swimming Gala (Physical Disabilities) | 30 April 2016 | Grangemouth Sports Complex | Danielle Joyce
Hope Gordon Caitlyn Ross |
| Senior Swimming Gala (Learning Disabilities) | 21 May 2016 | Tollcorss Swimming Pool, Glasgow | Hope Gordon |
| Senior Athletics | 14 September | Grangemouth Sports Centre | Colette Martin |
| Central Parasport Day | 25 October 2016 | Grangemouth Sports Complex | Colette Martin |
Group Training Needs Analysis
Through group discussion the group highlighted the following areas for development/courses they would like:
- Social Media Training (best use)
- Media Training (possibility for the June meeting date)
- Come along to UK Disability Inclusion Training Courses
- PCS/Mindset course
The group are interested in an overnight residential meeting – possibility for Inverclyde as a trial in 2017.
Group to look into potential funding streams for European trips at future meetings/sub groups
Coach mentoring
All panel members interested in the coach mentoring scheme – HL to follow up
SDS Strategic Plan Consultation Summary
Question 1
| ·        New one – more about all participants; old one very much about performance |
| ·        Impairment – all prefer disability |
| ·        Don’t like disabled but disability is fine |
| ·        Could widen the gap between able bodied and disability sport |
| ·        Combination of both visions |
| ·        Take out ‘performance’ as have ‘participants’ |
| Question 2 |
| ·        Narrative beside diagram to explain SIM and new bits like what is inclusion environment, activity etc |
| ·        Prefer blue one |
| ·        Should have equipment in circle |
| ·        Keep SDS logo in – put words in logo eg open etc |
| ·        Take activity x3 out new one |
| Question 3 |
| ·        Yes, still need to be explicit |
| Question 4 |
| ·        More promotion |
| ·        Better educated people eg more DIT-trained and aware of disability sport. To ensure people don’t accidentally get involved but people know about disability sport and where to signpost/get involved |
| ·        Links to nurses, doctors, physios |
| ·        More available information |
| ·        Raise awareness |
| ·        Better marketing |
| ·        More open days and come & try days |
| ·        More coaches |
| ·        UKCC Courses: disability element – all coaches trained to get qualification |
| Question 5 |
| ·        Influencing and educating doctors, nurses, physios to encourage athletes to take part in disability sport |
| ·        More links to places like Wesmark |