What about funding, Cornwall isn t a rich county and this isn t a free service?
Cycling England is seeking to roll out its pilot project with the Youth Sport Trust (who manage the partnership network) so that Partnership Development Managers are given grants to distribute in their School Sports Partnerships. They in turn, will be free to commission freelance trainers themselves or work with the local authority or both. We are hoping to have this in place for the new academic year 2007-2008. Currently I am working with both Cycling England and the 4 PDMs within Cornwall and we have 80k coming into the county to train 2000 Year 6 children before the end of the summer term 2008.
