Oxford City Council has become the first local authority in the country to receive an ‘Excellent’ rating in Quest for Active Communities, the new assessment model from Quest, Sport England’s quality scheme for sport and leisure. Quest for Active Communities directly supports the priorities outlined in...
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Bede’s Senior School in Sussex has become the latest independent school in the UK to successfully pass a tough assessment by Sport England’s national quality scheme, Quest – with a rating of ‘Excellent’. Quest is the sport and leisure industry’s best-known improvement programme, with more than...
Continue ReadingTen sporting organisations in Greater Manchester – including the County Sports Partnership and the Football Association – have collectively completed a tough assessment by Sport England’s leading quality scheme, Quest. Set up last year, the Greater Manchester Quest Consortium is made up of GreaterSport, the region’s...
Continue ReadingThe 2017 conference of Sport England’s leading quality scheme for sport and leisure is expected to be its biggest ever, following a venue change. For the second year running, the quality scheme Quest and its sister initiative the National Benchmarking Service (NBS) have partnered with the...
Continue ReadingMillwall Community Trust – the charitable arm of Millwall Football Club – has become the first organisation to receive a new ‘sport for development’ accreditation since the scheme was rolled out in June. Quest Sport for Development is aimed at agencies using sport to improve personal...
Continue ReadingThe introduction of a new unannounced assessment from Quest, the UK’s quality scheme from sport and leisure, is helping operators already registered with the scheme to take their service delivery to the next level. One of the requirements of Quest registration is that centres must undergo...
Continue ReadingA new accreditation designed to help agencies involved in sport for development work to demonstrate their impact is being launched across the UK, following a successful pilot with three organisations. The growing sport for development (S4D) sector is made up of organisations that use sport to...
Continue ReadingQuest, the sport and leisure industry’s leading quality scheme, has announced a raft of changes aimed at making it even stronger and more relevant, in line with both government and Sport England thinking. The changes, unveiled at the annual Quest & NBS Conference in Loughborough on...
Continue ReadingNew figures have been released for accidents in swimming pools as IQL UK, the trading subsidiary of the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), puts its weight behind Right Directions’ accident benchmarking platform STITCH. The first annual report for the online tool, developed by the...
Continue ReadingSport England’s leading quality scheme for sport and leisure is joining forces with the industry’s top professional development body to launch a two-day conference. The annual conference of the Quest quality scheme and its sister initiative the National Benchmarking Service (NBS) has been highly successful since...
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