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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 30th January 2026 - with Lucy Peyton from Living Sport, Kelly Joiner and pupils from Thomas Deacon Academy. · The PCR Sports Show

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Good evening and welcome to the PCR Sports Show for the start of
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your sporting weekend. Thank you for joining us on this
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Friday evening. If this is your first occasion
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of listening to us, thank you for your time this evening.
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Over the next hour, we're going to be talking to Lucy Payton.
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Payton sorry from living sports, Kelly Joyner from the Thomas
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Deacon Academy and students Veronica and Annabelle from the
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Academy here in the school. All about how he can get
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Peterborough more active and utilizing the green space in our
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city and we'll be chatting to them very shortly.
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Lucy, welcome to the PCR Sports Show this evening.
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Thank you very. Much good.
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Evening just come a little bit closer to the mic for me so we
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can all hear you thank you so living sports, who are they what
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do they do just give us a little bit of background on living
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sport please of. Course so living sports are at
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. We work across the whole county,
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but this work is Peterborough based, it's a place partnership
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development programme that's being funded by Sport England to
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help increase participation in activity.
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So the stats show us that over 30% of Peterborough people,
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young and old are, are considered, and I'm sorry to put
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this in the category, but inactive.
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So we want to support a decrease in that so that people are
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living better, healthier, more active lives.
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Initially your role then in helping to do that, so that's
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living sport, but you've got a specific role here to play
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within the city, haven't you? Yes, so so living sport do have,
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you know, separate strands. We have like a health section.
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We have a children and young people that work in schools and
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my role sits under sort of place in communities.
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So this place partnership funded programme is for two years,
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which started in October 2024. To look at the current, I put
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my, if you can see me, I'm doing inverted brackets, what the
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system looks like at the moment, which there isn't a system.
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There's some great clubs, great community groups that provide
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activities and sporting opportunities for Peterborough
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people, but we're not very well connected.
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There's a lot of inequalities, a lot of barriers preventing
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people from being more active. So our role is to look at unpick
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that. So we started off with a bit of
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mapping to, to find out you know, who, who's, who do we have
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networking. And then we've put together a
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steering group, A strategic steering group, which has 8
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sectors around the table. So we've got Peterborough City
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Council, that's the local authority.
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We have the integrated neighborhood teams, we have PCVS
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which are the council of voluntary sector.
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We have Theme Park Trust as a huge asset of in Peterborough
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and we have Vivacity, which deliver a lot of Commission
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services and living sports. They're all working together to
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look at how, where, where is there room for improvement and
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what's needed. And that's all within this city.
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So it sounds like it's very much a part, yeah, very much a
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partnership LED approach this it's not just one, one
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organization or group taking the lead here.
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It's about coming together for the betterment of it's not just
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necessarily adults, but certainly the youth of the city.
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Percent. And that's what it was.
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It's all about. It's that collaboration and
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making those collective decisions.
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So yeah. Brilliant stuff.
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And how long have you been in the role now?
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Since October 24. So I was new to living sport
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then. And yeah, like I say this, this
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development is going to tell us what changes, you know, we could
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implement so that we can apply for further funding to actually
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put that in place. But at the moment, it's just
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getting in touch with, you know, who's delivering, who's
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commissioning, who holds the policies, who purse strings, you
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know, it's, it's everyone that's involved and it's not sport,
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it's physical activity. It's anything.
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Movement related, exactly. Yeah.
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So it doesn't have to be, you know, perception of sport,
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running, football, cricket, no rugby, basketball.
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It can be just getting people moving more, perhaps, you know,
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just walking to the shop instead of perhaps getting in the car.
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Exactly that, you know, and it's, it's looking at, it's
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almost like how do we change behaviour to make activity part
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of normal day life. So is the norm because the
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benefits of being active? I'm sure we all know is is good
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for so many different reasons. And the knock on effect of that
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mental health, I guess comes plays a huge part in that.
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Yeah, I mean for children, you know, it's, it's not only their
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physical growth, it's their mental growth, it's their
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confidence moving into adults. It's it's a good, you know,
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prevention of a lot of diseases or helps manage a lot of
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diseases and conditions. And for older people keeping
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that strength up in the balance is preventing falls.
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So it's for all ages. So the the work that we're doing
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is from age 5 up until no limit and how it's delivered at the
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moment where it's delivered and could we be doing better?
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And the knock on effect of that is I suppose has a positive
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effect on the NHSI guess in years to come from that a lot.
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Of money, yeah, yeah. So I'm getting people moving.
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Yeah, exactly. That and in terms of barriers at
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the moment, a couple of them, I mean, I'm sure there's plenty
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there's. Plenty, yeah, but.
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You know they need to be broken down in.
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The times we live in, cost of living, so affordability is top,
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but it's time. Does it fit in with people's
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lifestyles? Accessibility.
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Is there public transport? It can get you places so that
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it's it's. The list is endless and it's
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trying to find solutions to tackle those.
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Yeah, I guess that comes down to behavioural change as well then.
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It does and that that's a big key of, you know, changing that,
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not only the the system, shifting the system into
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something that can manage that and support that, but promoting
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the awareness to all ages that change behaviour will actually
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benefit you in your lifestyle. And those around you as well, no
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doubt. And those around you.
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And I guess that's where Thomas Deacon Academy come into it.
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Yeah. So like I said, this is a, this
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is a big piece of work that we're doing citywide, but part
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of the place partnership is that we have a small pot of funding
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to test out different ways. So we've got two test and learn
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pilots, one over in Wittering, which is a, a rural, rural ward.
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Yeah. And Central.
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Central, Like I said, we could have picked any age, but we've
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gone for it. The steering group decided 11 to
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18. And what is the value in use of
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green space to that age range? We've picked Central.
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It's, you know, a lot happening. There's a lot of antisocial
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behaviour, there's sort of barriers of white, young people
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are not using those outdoor spaces.
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And there's quite a limited amount of green space in Central
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Ward. So you've got Stanley Park, the
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Embankment, Cathedral's got some, you know, green, green
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space, but it's very limited. And actually some stats that
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show that 51% of people that actually live in Central Ward
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live in flats. So it drove us to think that's
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starting Central and rural Ward as a as a comparison.
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Yeah. So yes, we got in touch with
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Thomas Deakin School to see if they could help us do our work.
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And because of where they're based and where their pupils
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will come from, Central Ward effectively.
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Yeah, I mean, they're just on the border of Central and I
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don't want to be too demographic by restricting things, but
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actually there's a high percentage of pupils at Thomas
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Deakin that do Devon Central ward.
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It's an exciting opportunity for the city.
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It's, it's, it's huge and it's, it's long term.
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We're not just here just to deliver a few activities and run
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away. This is like, you know, this is
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a change for the future. This is long term.
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So it's all very exciting because I'm very passionate
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about. It well, we're lucky to be
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joined this evening as well by Thomas Deacon Academy.
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We've got Kelly Joyner with us who's the community engagement
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lead, Kelly, and you're very much part of this opportunity
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for the city. Yeah, I think so.
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My role as community engagement leaders to share the talent we
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have in our school building with the local community and further
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afield as well. And we know our students are
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incredible. So and we encourage them to not
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wait until they're an adult to go out there and make the world
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a better place. Go do it now.
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And as you'll hear from the guys that are with me and trying to
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not make eye contact with. Me right now that that.
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Is exactly what they are doing. So working with Living Sport on
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this place partnership just gives them exactly that
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opportunity to collaborate with a, a really established, really
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organised group of people to bring their talents and
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expertise as young people to the project that they're going to
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lead themselves. And I think we talk about at
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Thomas Deakin, it's not just about leaving school with a bag
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full of results, it's also a bag full of character.
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And then getting involved in sports and involved in the local
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community and encouraging other people to take part in those
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activities really helps students to develop that character long
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term. And they take that with them and
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it sets them apart from other people.
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You can walk out of school with all the A stars, but if you walk
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out of school with all the A stars and no character, you
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won't you won't go far in life. So as you'll hear shortly, I'm
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sure that we develop students with enormous bags of character
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and. TDA Thomas Deakin Academy, from
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the school's perspective, really in the heart of the city as well
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and taking those boundaries away that Lucy mentioned there, that
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is probably the number one Academy within that area for
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pupils to attend. Agreed.
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It's it's and like we said, we're not actually in Central
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Ward. We're in Park Ward and we, we're
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next to the amazing Central Park for but a lot of our students
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don't you say come from Central Ward and in that area at the
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weekends there's not much available for them to do out
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there in green spaces. And some of the the meetings
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we've had along the way, we've live in sport and with the
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students have really highlighted the fact that there are enormous
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barriers to young people engaging in activities outside
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of outside of buildings that we hadn't even thought of.
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So they really have brought a unique and intelligent insight
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into the project and I think they've definitely steered it in
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a new direction that we wouldn't have have done so without their
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input. Yeah, and it's very important to
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involve the children, the youth from day one effectively.
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Brilliant stuff it needs to be. Driven by by those that you
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know. Students.
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Yeah, and that's from the bottom up I guess.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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Instead of being, I suppose for once with a better phrase
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dictated to as to what they. Choose and assume yeah, what
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activities they want. Yeah, you tell us what you want
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and we'll try and make that happen.
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Brilliant stuff, right? We'll be chatting to Veronica
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and Annabelle from Thomas Deak Academy, two students who are
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very much involved in this project to get their fellow
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pupils moving and being more active in the city, and we'll be
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chatting to them very shortly. Good evening.
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Welcome back to the PCR Sport show here on PCR FM Thank you
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for joining us and if you haven't missed any of the show
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this evening, you can listen back to us online and you can
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find links on the PCRFM website or go through to the PCR Sports
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social media pages over the course of this weekend.
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Our guests this evening are Kelly Joyner, Lucy Payton from
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Living Sport, and also we've got students Veronica and Annabelle
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from Thomas Deakin Academy. We've been talking about how we
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can get Peterborough more active and utilizing the green spaces
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in our city and not just through taking part in sport.
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You know, you may perceive it to be football, cricket, rugby,
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netball, basketball, are those sorts of sports.
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It's just about moving, you know, how can we get you more
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active, potentially walking to the shops, not getting a lift
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and just getting yourself more attuned to your local
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environment. And just before the break, Lucy
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and Kelly gave us a great introduction into Living Sport
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and the The Place Partnership scheme that is currently in its
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infancy and being developed across the city by a number of
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partners that are involved in the project.
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And I'm pleased to say we've got two students, Veronica and
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Annabelle, joining us this evening as well, who are very
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much at the heart of this opportunity to get their peers,
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their school mates, their friends moving.
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And welcome to the show, Veronica and Annabelle.
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Thank. You for having.
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Us As you know, we are year 12 students at TVA studying sport
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and physical activity at A level.
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And we're involved in a sports place partnership run by Living
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Sport, aiming to increase participation in sport.
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As we've been involved in sport throughout our lives, we want to
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give people the same opportunities we had, to be more
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active and give them more opportunities in their life in
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general. Brilliant.
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So you obviously both love sport.
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Yeah. Favorite sport.
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OK. Football.
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And what position do you play hockey wise?
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Mid. Your mid OK, You've been playing
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a few years. Yeah.
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Who do you play for? I used to play for Born D Ping,
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Yeah. I'm hoping to get back into it
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again soon. OK, brilliant stuff.
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And you like your football, Veronica?
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Yeah. Do you play?
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I used to play center mid from Netherton, OK.
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Brilliant stuff. And do you support anybody
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football wise? Awesome.
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And you've been to see some of the women matches or just any of
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the men's matches? More the men's matches.
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More the men's matches, brilliant stuff.
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So you're very much enjoy sports, participating in it, but
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now you want to give other friends, students, the
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opportunity to get more active like you're like yourselves.
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Yeah, We just want to make them aware of what's going on in that
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area. They might not even know what
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opportunities that are around them.
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So we want to make sure that they know, so then they can go
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out and make new friends, experience the health benefits
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from it, and just make like lifelong habits to continue.
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Brilliant stuff. How are you doing that then,
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Veronica? What's what's involved?
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So we're going to carry out a pilot study to see what is
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stopping young people from participating in sporting people
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because we want everyone to have the same opportunity we've had
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growing up to be able to participate in all sorts of
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sport. OK, so it's very important to
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collect that evidence in the 1st place, isn't it?
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To then be able to build a picture up of how you can then
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support your fellow students. Yeah.
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So at the minute we're putting together some questions to go
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around the school and ask all the different forms so they can
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have an input on the. The activities, yeah, yeah.
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There's also they can do what they want to do.
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We don't. There's no point in running
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things that they don't want to attend, so we want to give them
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an input. So then there's things running
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they want to actually go to, so that's they've got the best
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opportunity really. Yeah, you've got more chance for
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buy in then, haven't you? If you've got, if you've got
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that evidence to say and then you can put a particular
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activity on for them, then they, they will attend.
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They, you know, hopefully they'll attend as well.
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Yeah. So we've really kind of made
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them kind of have the biggest input in it, really.
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So then they have what they want, yeah.
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Veronica, are you doing this for all age groups at TDA?
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Well, the questionnaire we're planning to do during form time
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is going to go from year 7 all the way to year 13 to make sure
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we've got a whole range of feelings from even younger
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children to older children to see what will really include
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everyone, not just a specific age group.
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Yeah, so that's all the way from 11 to 18, effectively.
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Yeah, Kelly was there talking about character, and it's not
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just about taking part in the activity, it just helps breed
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leaders participation within sport.
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How do you feel the character side of things is important for
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for what you're doing at the moment?
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Yeah, so our school character is kind of at the heart of
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everything really. They encourage it through like
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all like sorts of different things.
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And in sport especially, you develop all sorts of different
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characters and then they can like and put that into the rest
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of their lives as well. So it's not just trying to get
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them more active, but as well like benefiting them in all
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areas of their life so they can carry on those habits in the
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future in their jobs. Yeah, yeah.
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So for later life, effectively, yeah.
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And you know, if they go on to university or go straight into
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work at 18, for example, you've built up that character.
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And it gives them so many opportunities to socialise and
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build their social skills. So in the future when they meet
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new people, they've already had the exposure of meeting new
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people, it's going to be less daunting for them and just build
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their confidence really. Yep.
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Have you started the survey yet? Is it still in infancy?
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Putting it together, What's your sort of plan going forward with
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it at the moment? So far we've just presented the
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questions to Living Sport and then we've had the go ahead that
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we can now go ahead and ask those questions.
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So we're going to be doing that in the next couple of weeks.
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Yeah. They were absolutely amazing.
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You didn't just present it to. The in sport you.
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Presented it to a range of people in a big boardroom.
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Wow. Yeah, that shows character in
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itself, doesn't it? Yeah, you were.
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Fantastic. And you actually had a senior
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lecturer from ARU say how well you did, so please take that.
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I think she actually said that there were better than masters.
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Pay that credit, girls. So, you know, they had given it
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so much thought, so much position of what what can we get
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out of these questions? It's really, really valuable
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information. But you had all the sport
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coaches around, you know, it was, it was a daunting
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experience, but you handled it well and and we're being led by
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you. So it's amazing what you're.
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Doing and that's important, isn't it, that there is that
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input that we talked about before the break that the
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students, you know, the 11 to 18 year olds are actually listened
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to as to what they want and what would get them more active.
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And stages of the survey itself. You'll be going around each of
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the the forms effectively and collecting those results.
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Yeah. So we're going to plan to have
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two different questionnaires. One's going to be more of a
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multiple choice question which can be answered by everyone and
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anyone, and it's going to be more of a hands up type of
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question thing, so it will decrease levels of boredom so
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people would be more likely to answer truthfully.
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And then for school council, we're going to have a more open
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questionnaire where they will be more likely to expand on their
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answers and give us a more deeper view on what they think
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of sport and how to help them. OK, school council.
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What's the school council? Is it selected students that
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take part? So each year group has a student
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council which meet every week to discuss like various different
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topics about the school. So we'll be going and discussing
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it with each year group to get the more in depth answers.
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And then their multiple choice one will be to every single form
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from year 7 to year 13, so we can gather as much data as
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possible. Yep, and what's the time frame
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for having this survey completed?
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We're hoping by the end of next week.
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Wow, brilliant work. That'll be good.
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And so you'll get an impact and those results will be live
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effectively for you there, Lucy. Why?
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They've said next Friday, it's because we have an event
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planning meeting, OK. So our next step is, well, we've
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already planned that we want to because we want to deliver a
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program of activity. But before then, we're just
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doing a taste today. So the taste today at the moment
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is planned for Stanley Park. On the 20th of February in half
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term, yes. It's not far away.
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You know, it's a it's a test. Yeah.
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We're leaving it as an open event so that it's again testing
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rather than pre registering and having that barrier.
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It's just turn up, have a go. And they're presenting the
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results of the survey to the providers, the coaches and
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sports that are going to be there for the day, what the
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results are. But we've already, we've booked
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boxing. So we've got Top Yard boxing,
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we've got Lions Football Club, we've got Lions Rugby Club.
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Yeah. We've got built around fitness
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and delivering some fitness sessions.
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And we have archery by Grey Goose.
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I think that's it. Is it Kelly?
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I'm sure, I'm sure. If there's someone else I've
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missed, I'm sorry, I will. That later, so you've got six or
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seven activities taking part. We've got some activities
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already. Yeah, brilliant stuff.
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And Top Yard have certainly been on this show as well.
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So we we, we know the value that they provide in this city as
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well from that perspective. Very.
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Community LED, yeah, but also with the Lions Football Club.
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They've set up with Tom Top Yard in Queensgate and have the Roots
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and Rice Hub. So that's, you know, it's all,
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it's all, it's all relevant, it's all connecting and you
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know, we're all supporting to make this day happen.
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Girls, are you planning to join them on the day as well?
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Will you be down there? Will.
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Definitely be there to help and support, yeah.
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Brilliant stuff and encourage some of your fellow students and
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friends down to attend as well from the school no doubt.
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We actually haven't told them they are lazy activities.
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Okay, they do now. Now.
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Friday. Well, we'll be running them
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then. But it's important, isn't it,
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you know, in all seriousness, to get that feedback from students
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from 11 to 18 year olds, to be able to shape something that is
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of value to them and not just being dictated to for them.
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Absolutely. It has to be driven by them, you
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know, and if we were dealing with another cohorts and older,
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you have to speak to those that are involved so that we are
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getting a true reflection of what you need, what you want and
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you're more likely to do it. And yeah, that's where you're.
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Where you get that real participation levels, don't you
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as well, Yeah. And I think sometimes if you
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flip that narrative and imagine for a moment that we let youth
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put on activities for 70 year olds, but based on their own
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opinions. So they had 70 year olds doing
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skateboarding and. And.
22:39
Beatboxing and kind of maybe they wouldn't really want to
22:43
fully engage in that. So, and I think that quite often
22:46
happens as an, as an adult who works with, has worked with
22:49
children for many, many years, is that we impose our views on
22:53
them and expect them to come along and, and to take part.
22:56
And actually it is ridiculous when you think about that in
22:59
reverse. So yeah, although I'm really
23:02
good at beatboxing. Yeah, Can we have a demo?
23:07
Demo put you on the spot right now?
23:10
No, we'll save that for the day. Hilarious.
23:12
But yeah, so you'll have to come to Stanley Park on the 20th and
23:15
I will do a live beatbox for. You.
23:17
There you go, girls. That's got to be enough to get
23:19
you down there with you Lucy. The event itself, you've
23:24
mentioned there 20th of February at Stanley Park and it's half
23:28
term week, which is ideal from that perspective.
23:32
It's open to the whole of the city, I guess, though it's not
23:34
just, you know, those whole. City but it is aimed at 11 to 18
23:38
years not that big enough for ID nothing but yeah that's that's
23:41
the idea yeah like I say it's a bit risky keeping it open but
23:46
like I say we're testing different ways to approach
23:48
things yeah in a bit bit more sort of light hearted together
23:51
within this way. And it's free.
23:53
And it's free, which is really. Key to everybody being able to
23:58
take part. Yeah, I think that's important,
24:00
isn't it, girls, that it's free? It takes that barrier away.
24:03
Doesn't it take part in an activity where you can go down
24:05
with your friends for the morning or afternoon?
24:07
Yeah, definitely. And as well, they can take part
24:11
in a sport they might not have even known existed.
24:13
And then they might be like, oh, I want to now do that all the
24:16
time. And then they can really pick up
24:18
a new hobby or something that they love.
24:21
When did you start playing hockey?
24:22
Sorry, just go back a few steps. I started when I was at primary
24:26
school, OK? About 7 years old and what
24:28
encouraged you to go into hockey at that point?
24:31
Well, I started just playing in school, yeah, but then I really
24:33
enjoyed it. See, I carried on.
24:36
Yeah. See, it's important, isn't it,
24:38
that children have that opportunity to take part in
24:41
activities and relaxed. For a fucking way, yeah.
24:44
With no pressure on them whatsoever, No.
24:45
Club fees haven't got to join a. Club No.
24:47
Buying equipment, yeah, kit and they, you know, it's just have a
24:51
go, you know, and if, if a particular sport is is liked
24:56
most, then we can look at, you know, supporting someone to set
24:59
up a club or whatever. So it's, it's all it's testing
25:02
how you're responding to those sorts of environments.
25:05
But we'll say what can we grow from that?
25:08
Yeah. Brilliant stuff, right?
25:10
We'll be back with the girls very shortly.
25:11
We're just going to take a few more messages and we'll be
25:13
talking more about Living Sport and the activities they've got
25:17
planned certainly for the 20th of February at Stanley Park.
25:21
Good evening. Welcome back to the PCR Sports
25:23
Show and thank you for joining us.
25:25
We've only got literally what, 10-12 minutes left of tonight's
25:28
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25:30
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25:42
So please do listen back to this evening's show.
25:45
We've been talking to Lucy Payton from Living Sport, who's
25:48
the Peterborough Place lead, Kelly Joyner, the Community
25:52
engagement lead from Thomas Deacon Academy.
25:54
And we're very privileged to have also Veronica and
25:57
Annabelle, 2 year 12 students from the school who are very
26:00
much at the heart of the new project.
26:03
And that's been put together by Living Sports and a number of
26:06
other organizations across the city called the place a
26:09
partnership. And it's all about making sure
26:12
how we can get our youth, 11 to 18 year olds, moving more across
26:17
the city, being more active and utilizing the green spaces in
26:21
the city. And one of those ways will be an
26:23
event that's coming up next month, 20th of February at
26:26
Stanley Park, where there'll be 6 or 7 activities for children
26:32
to take part in, including top yard boxing, the Lions, Rugby
26:35
Club and football and archery, as well as a host of other
26:39
sports. And the beauty of it is that
26:41
they are all free to take part in.
26:44
So if you're 11 to 18 and or if you've got a niece, nephew, or
26:48
you've got a son or daughter to encourage them to attend.
26:51
That's the 20th of February at Stanley Park here in the heart
26:55
of our city. Girls.
26:58
Annabelle, you were talking just off air there about the activity
27:02
itself and yeah, you're very much enthused about this
27:05
particular opportunity, aren't you?
27:06
Yeah. I think when people think of
27:09
sport, a lot of the time they think of competitive nurse at
27:12
competition, especially when you see it on TV and things.
27:16
But it's not just about that. It's about the fun, the
27:18
engagement or the opportunities people get from it.
27:22
And that's really what's behind this.
27:23
It's not who's like, it's not about the competitiveness, it's
27:27
about the fun and what people can really get out of
27:30
participating in sport. Yep, it's encouraging your peers
27:33
to come along, isn't it? 11 to 18 year olds and getting
27:35
that message out there. Yeah, so then they can pick up
27:38
the lifelong habits and continue it later in life.
27:41
Yep, we talked about character as well, Veronica.
27:44
That's, you know, a very important part of this
27:47
particular project. Well, if, if they come to some
27:51
events that we're going to have, then they will have to learn how
27:54
to be, how to show courtesy to each other because they will
27:58
have to show good sportsmanship. They can't just think it's all
28:00
about them. They will have to share.
28:02
They'll have to learn each other's cultures and embrace
28:05
everything they've learned throughout the events.
28:08
That's brilliant. That is Lucy exciting event next
28:11
month. Yes, it is.
28:13
Might say we've got a duplicate one in witching as well.
28:15
But just to confirm you've said shared it.
28:17
Thank you very much. It hasn't gone out public.
28:19
It will be on Monday. The timing is a 1:50.
28:22
It's a four hour event. You can just turn up for an hour
28:25
and have a have a have a go or you say the whole time, bring a
28:27
packed lunch, bring you bottle of water and there'll be sort of
28:31
like a presentation at the end. But it's it's it's it's
28:34
hopefully it's gonna be a really good, great day.
28:36
We've booked. The weather, it's definitely
28:39
sunny and dry. Yeah, it's not.
28:40
It's not the best. Of a year to.
28:42
Have an outdoor event, but you know, let's go with the flow.
28:46
It's an opportunity isn't it? You've and then the girls are,
28:49
you know, putting in some really good work within TDA, you know,
28:53
amongst their form classes, you know, 11 to 18 year olds and you
28:57
know, being able to have an event in literally what, 4 weeks
29:01
just shows them the appetite for it.
29:03
Yeah. And, you know, that's something
29:05
we appreciate and it's, it's special.
29:08
You know, it's a different way of approaching something.
29:10
And if it works then we can replicate it in in other areas.
29:13
Yep, or tweak it if it doesn't quite work on the day itself
29:16
Learning. That's all.
29:17
Yeah, that's what it's all. About and this is very much this
29:19
place partnership is in its infancy and it's about testing
29:22
and learning and taking the opportunities and listening to
29:25
to the 11 to 18 year olds it certainly.
29:28
Is, yeah. Kelly, you work with the.
29:31
I say work with Veronica and Annabelle are 24 but you must be
29:38
proud of the the 2 girls here. Amazing.
29:40
I said it earlier, didn't I, about I'm sharing the character
29:42
that we have in the building with the local community.
29:45
And they just, I'll never leave working at Thomas Deacon Academy
29:50
because I get to do this every day and work with these guys
29:52
every day. And they just surprise and
29:55
inspire me. And they're just incredible
29:58
groups of people that I'm I'm an absolutely privileged to work
30:02
with. Yeah.
30:02
And I just know I've. We've got the future Prime
30:05
Minister within our world, and I am kind of setting myself up for
30:10
having a group of amazing people going out doing amazing things,
30:13
so when I'm in my old age, they can all come back.
30:17
Yeah, exactly that. Yeah.
30:18
It's a very, you know, personal thing for me.
30:20
But yeah, they are incredible. And Veronica and Annabella, no
30:23
doubt just representing the school here as well because, you
30:26
know, yeah, fellow pupils. So the.
30:27
Whole year 12 cohort of this sports development have been
30:31
involved in the project along the way and they've all taken
30:35
part and they're all picking up different aspects of the place.
30:38
Partnership and the commitment that they've shown to it has
30:41
been absolutely incredible. Going off and doing things in
30:44
their own time and making sure that that the things that are
30:47
needed to happen have happened in a timely manner and they're
30:50
just incredible. Yep, may not be Prime Minister,
30:54
could be a hockey player. Annabelle representing Great
30:56
Britain at the Olympics. In future years, Maybe what's
31:04
next for living sport? You've got this activity coming
31:06
up. It's very much this project at
31:08
the moment, but what's what's ahead for living sport?
31:11
So these are, you know, 2 stand alone pilots.
31:14
So these are separate in their own identity.
31:20
The bigger piece of work we have had.
31:24
So at the moment I have over 200 contacts on it, like a
31:27
distribution list, keeping people informed of what we're
31:31
learning, you know, how things look.
31:34
And actually we've had two wider partner events, one to shape
31:40
together what the common purpose is, what the vision looks like,
31:44
what the mission looks like, what values do we need to align
31:47
to. And then we held a year on event
31:51
to discuss parks and and children's activity.
31:57
A lot of learning came out of it, but it is very, very clear
32:04
that my next step is rather than just sending an e-mail to
32:08
distribution list, is actually creating a network.
32:12
So creating a safe place for everyone that is involved or has
32:19
an invested interest in activity to come together.
32:23
Share good practice, share learning to tackle equalities
32:27
together, look for solutions together and shape what that
32:31
network, being a member of that network could bring, what
32:35
benefits it could bring. So that's launching next week
32:37
with an event planned for March, April time to actually structure
32:44
what people want from that network.
32:47
We know that a lot of sport clubs apply for small grants and
32:51
things. Where, where do they get their
32:53
data from? What, where, where can they go
32:56
for some development opportunities?
32:59
You know, what do we want from coming together to be stronger?
33:03
We always talk about on this show, volunteers integral to
33:07
clubs, organisations, yeah. And that's something again,
33:12
you're looking to develop in in time.
33:14
Within Living Sports as well, we are, but you know, volunteer
33:18
capacity to, to, to recruit and retain volunteers.
33:24
It's a big issue for all charities and I've seen it over
33:27
many, many years. But that's a big thing that
33:30
we're looking to explore and develop within Living Sports to
33:33
give those opportunities, whether that could be in the
33:37
shape of sort of the move more type ambassador role.
33:40
So that we've got lots of people dotted around in all ages trying
33:44
to promote that. What we've just been talking
33:46
about the the change of behaviour.
33:48
So it's something, you know, Living Sport are a charity,
33:52
volunteers will strengthen that voice and amplify it.
33:56
And and that's, that's one of the next steps, yeah.
34:00
It's important to have those ambassadors within communities.
34:02
Isn't it all from within? Yeah, yeah.
34:04
And with these two test and then pilots, the central and
34:08
Wittering, we are working with people that wouldn't have had
34:12
this opportunity, wouldn't have, you know, residents even having
34:15
a voice of like, please don't use this part because it's this
34:18
and the other. We you have to listen to all
34:20
angles. And I will say with Stanley
34:23
Park, which is quite, quite surprising.
34:25
When we first came to see the students at Thomas Deacon and we
34:28
mentioned Stanley Park and they were very apprehensive because
34:32
of the safety implications. So obviously that means that we
34:35
need to look at talking to police and, and you know, so
34:38
there's a lot of sort of rippling effects from the things
34:42
we're finding out, but it's all good.
34:43
Well, it's important, isn't it? As you know, this survey and the
34:46
feedback that you get from students will shape.
34:49
Yeah, it's showing us. Trends it's showing us, themes
34:51
it's showing us highlighting things that we may not have even
34:54
thought about. So, you know, it's all great
34:56
work. Brilliant stuff.
34:58
Well, thank you for joining us, Lucy Kelly, Annabelle.
35:01
Veronica, Thank you. Wonderful stuff.
35:04
Are you playing hockey tomorrow, Annabelle?
35:06
No, no game tomorrow. No.
35:07
Arsenal got a game this weekend. Veronica.
35:10
No, it's quite sporting weekend, isn't it?
35:14
Brilliant stuff. Well all the best for the event
35:17
on the 20th of February. Thank you.
35:19
And if they want to get hold of you, just go through to the
35:21
Living Sport website and contact details are on there you can.
35:24
Actually find me on the, you know, you meet the staff, so
35:25
it's got my personal e-mail on that or my work e-mail on there.
35:28
Say anything. If you've got any involvement or
35:31
any interest, any skills, anything you want to offer,
35:34
anything to do with movement in Peterborough, let me know.
35:39
Lucy's the person to speak to. Brilliant.
35:42
Thank you for coming in this evening girls, very much
35:45
appreciated. Wishing you all the best with
35:47
the survey to get that all done in the next week or so and look
35:51
forward to hearing more about the event on the 20th of
35:52
February at Stanley Park, which is between 10:00 and 2:00 PM
35:56
Thank you. Right, well, that's the end of
36:00
another PCR Sports show here on PCR FM Thank you for your
36:04
company. Next week we're going to be live
36:07
from the Turbines Tavern at Peterborough Sports and we'll be
36:11
catching up on all things Peterborough sports related and
36:14
hopefully they'll be able to continue their recent good form
36:18
and pick up another vital 3 points in on their trip to
36:22
Chorley, which is tomorrow afternoon in a three PM kick
36:26
off. Thank you for your time.
36:28
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