Welcome to the SportTayside & Fife Partnership website.

As SportTayside & Fife comes to the end of its successful pilot, we are delighted to announce that the good work will continue to be delivered by the Tayside & Fife Sporting Partnership. 

Tayside & Fife will become one of the six new Regional Sporting Partnerships being established by sportscotland to link all thirty two Local Authorities and identified Scottish Governing Bodies. This new regional infrastructure is being set up following the success of the four year pilot projects in Tayside & Fife and Central.

The SportTayside & Fife AGM in June will be asked to formally approve the transfer and will also take the opportunity to highlight the significant results achieved by all the partners over the last four years.

The Tayside & Fife Sporting Partnership’s remit will be expanded to include delivering the priorities for the Institute of Sport Network and Regional Sports Development.  The Sports Development Team will comprise of the governing body regional managers who will continue to develop their sport specific programmes, and sportscotland staff who will provide the expertise to support programmes such as Facilities Development, Community Sports Hubs and Coach and Officials Education. 

Each of the six new Partnerships will provide a regional base and local management for the staff to ensure they  have close links with the clubs in their sport, the Local Authorities and all the other key partners who work together to deliver the two national aims of increased participation and improved performance. Put simply, the new Partnership will continue the excellent work developed by SportTayside & Fife to join up the people, places and thinking that makes sport happen.

Initially, sportscotland will prioritise the development of Regional Managers for seven Scottish Governing Bodies:  Football, Rugby and Golf (who have these posts in place) Swimming, Athletics and Gymnastics (as key fundamental sports) and Disability Sport from an equity perspective. In addition the Tayside & Fife Partnership will continue working with Hockey, Basketball and Girls and Women’s Football.

There will be some staff changes over the next few months:

• The Partnership will fill the vacant Athletics Regional Manager’s post following the departure of Alasdair Donaldson to a coaching post at Loughborough University
• The new Disability Sport Manager will be recruited
• Current Partnership Manager, Brian Samson is moving on at the beginning of April to set up the West of Scotland Sporting Partnership. 

When asked to comment on his contribution to SportTayside & Fife, Brian said:
 ‘It has been a tremendous four years – we have delivered real results for our focus sports, their clubs, coaches and officials.  This is all due to the real energy and commitment of the staff - it is their work that has made SportTayside & Fife the blueprint for sportscotland’s new regional approach.

However, none of the results would have been achieved without the real commitment and support shown by our key partners.  In particular I would like to thank the Elected Members and staff from Angus, Dundee City, Fife and Perth & Kinross Councils – it has been a pleasure working with them and jointly we have set new expectations and standards for partnership working.

I am sorry to be leaving because I will miss all the people I have worked with across the region, but I know the new Partnership is only going to go from strength to strength.  The challenge for me is to create an even better organisation than this Partnership in the West!’

Finally, please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like more information by e-mailing your enquiries to:

SportTayside-Fife@dundeecity.gov.uk

 

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