KKP has just started work on a major national club development and support project for British Wrestling - designed to help the sport capitalise on its increased profile as an Olympic discipline. The aim is to strengthen wrestling as a whole by improving the capacity and sustainability of its core network of key clubs across the country.

It is designed to ensure that the sport and specifically its clubs will be more than ready to accommodate the increased interest and wave of potential new participants expected to be generated by the Games; now less than four months away.

Knight, Kavanagh and Page has recently been commissioned to support two major projects to develop sports villages for local authorities in Merseyside and Teesside.

Middlesbrough Council will work with KKP to assess the feasibility of a sports village complex on a major site in the Prissick area of the town linked to new housing and infrastructure development.

Based in the heart of Scotland, North Lanarkshire, at 47,213 hectares is one of the largest local council areas in the UK.

Incorporating consultation with clubs, community groups, schools, other local authorities and key partners such as sportscotland and the Scottish FA, KKP's audit will encompass all Council and Trust owned/managed school, voluntary and private sector club pitches for a number of sports.

KKP Principal Consultant, David McHendry,is featured in Sports Management discussing the benefits of chosing correctly-sized indoor sports facilties that work well for indoor sports and offer a sound business model for the operator. Read the Sports Management article here

From 1st October 2011, the integrated Clubmark and runningsports Programme is being developed, delivered and managed by KKP.

It incorporates Clubmark accreditation (recognising minimum operating standards for sports clubs) and the development of the volunteer and club development resource package (runningsports), with the overall aim of increasing participation in sport.

KKP's work will provide Derry City Council with a clear strategic framework for improvement, investment and protection of its playing pitch facilities.

Given the background against which the playing pitch strategy is being commissioned (allowing for Sport NI strategies, the regeneration plan for the City, the changes in planning policy and gain in terms of more responsibility at a local level etc), KKP will ensure the assessment is sufficiently robust enough to stand up to scrutiny.

Via a combination of strategic advice and practical campaign management, KKP's in-house marketing experts are assisting Salford Community Leisure to launch an innovative new scheme.

Five new football pitches have been built at Salford Sports Village on a former training pitch and tarmac area, Funded by a £50,000 grant from the Football Foundation and £180,000 from Salford Community Leisure, the improvements have enabled a state-of-the-art football and rugby facility to be built including one seven-a-side and four five-a-side pitches.

KKP has been appointed by Chorley, Preston and South Ribble councils to analyse provision, develop standards and recommend the investment needed in open space, playing fields, sport and recreation facilities in Central Lancashire. 
 

Preston City Council has worked with KKP on successive strategy developments since 2002. It's most recent; 2010-2015 ‘refreshed' version, produced in consultation with the City's SPAA partners, reflected its status as European City of Sport in 2012 and set the target of achieving the greatest increases in levels of physical activity and sport in the North West from the City's current baseline.

KKP, panel member on Sport England's Strategic Planning Framework for Sport, has recently been appointed to deliver playing pitch strategies for: