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Accreditations
Wansbeck Sport are commited to offering the highest possible quality service and as such have achieved several accreditations, they are:
Quest
Quest Highly Comended score of 75% which places Wansbeck as the higest scoring Sports Development unit in the North East. Quest is a continuous improvement programme, which provides a framework for the management of sports based organisations with the purpose of improving the quality of their service. It is a national accreditation scheme, which will allow Wansbeck Sports Development Unit to benchmark, and share good practice with similar organisations nationally.
The quest process involves three stages;
- Self-assessment
- External validation
- On-going maintenance
The national assessor commented that the Sports Development Team has worked extremely hard to achieve their ‘Quest Approved’ status. The Sports Development Unit has a clear commitment and willingness to constantly improve upon the existing service and to meet the aims and expectations of both their partners and customers.
This achievement is nothing short of remarkable considering the small team and amount of activities they are able to offer to the people of Wansbeck. The team will be continuing their excellent work across the district and hope to continually improve the service we offer to our customers.
Walk Your way to Health
WHI Walk Your Way to Health Accreditation, this ensures that our Walking programme ‘Walkaways’ offers led health walks for beginners and meets WHI safety and insurance standards. The aims of the accreditation programme are to set and maintain high standards for health walk schemes; to give potential users confidence about what to expect; to give participants, partners and funders added confidence; and to reassure users that the walks in their area are of good quality.
Benefits include:
- The credibility associated with being part of a nationally and robustly evaluated scheme;
- Recognition by health professionals;
- Use of the accreditation logo (shown above);
- A dedicated page on the WHI website – with the accreditation logo displayed;
- A WHI-accredited certificate
Streetmark Accreditation
The StreetMark accreditation is issued from the national charity StreetGames. It is an accreditation given to organisations and initiatives that meet the criteria for delivering safe and fun sport to disadvantaged communities. In order to achieve this standard sports development had to go through the following procedures.
- Quality and safety assurance
- Branding policy
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Financial regulations
- StreetGames vision
- Promoting positive ethics
Northumberland Healthy People Healthy Business Gold Award
Wansbeck District Council received this prestigious award on 30th October 2007, as part of this the Sports Development Team delivered a variety of activities including led walks and subsidised swims. The assessor commented that ‘Wansbeck District Council have consistently shown commitment over the past three years of the award and have improved the health and safety of their staff and of the local community. The hard work and commitment of the team of health advocates has ensured that all criteria has been met to gain the Healthy People Healthy Business Gold award, and it is plain to see that the organisation has benefited from their skills and enthusiasm in many ways including a significant decrease in sickness
