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:

Bournemouth University is a multi campus institution with more than 17,000 students and a student-staff ratio of 24:2. Staff and students presently access their sport at the facilities on the University's Talbot Campus or, via a range of local link-ups. Bournemouth has a strong sports club structure and the University offers students access to other facilities via partnership-based arrangements with clubs and facilities such as Bournemouth Athletics Club and Dudsbury, Ilford and Ferndown Golf Clubs.

Sport England's recently launched £10million Protecting Playing Fields initiative is set to allow communities to improve local playing fields or create new sports pitches as part of the wider Places People Play scheme. It will make funding available via five £2million rounds, awarding grants of between £20,000 - £50,000 to projects located throughout England. These will:

Sport England, in partnership with the Rugby Football Union, Rugby Football League, England & Wales Cricket Board, the Football Association and England Hockey, have commissioned Knight, Kavanagh & Page (KKP) to produce an updated and improved methodology for developing playing pitch strategies (PPSs).
Claire Fallon, lead consultant on the project commented:

The Football Association is the latest NGB to receive its licence from Sport England to accredit clubs. It became part of Clubmark at the end of 2010, adding 3,700 Charter Standard (the FA's own club accreditation brand) clubs to the portfolio. It also brings many more clubs currently ‘working towards'.

Clare MacLeod, KKP Principal Consultant and National Clubmark Manager commented: