The Leisure Review: December 2008

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Building a better mousetrap twice a month
The Leisure Review editorial
The editor has what he hopes will be exciting news for the sport and leisure fraternity.

Tale from a tub
Kay Adkins looks at coaching from the other side of the tutoring role for the first time in a number of years as she goes after a new set of badges.

The letters page
The page that pre-dated the slow blogging movement by years. Now with new correspondence.

news

News in Brief
News in Brief, issue 23. A new title for the sport and leisure sector. News from Holme Pierrepont and VAT for trusts. The debriefing of Beijing. Taekwondo and British Waterways. Sportscoach UK's international coaching conference. Health and CSPs. The Scottish Sports Development Conference. And, of course, Barak Obama.

The World of Leisure
Up to date for 2009. Day-by-day highlights of cultural coverage in the national press, drawing together the cross-sectoral strands of everything related to the leisure sector, whether artistic, cultural or sporting. You may wonder whether it is all entirely relevant now but you'll be glad of it in the weeks ahead.

Row Z
This month Sideliner has a look at the Hogster's view of football, peers of the realm and knights errant, exhibitions and questionnaires, pedallers and presidents. There is also some praeterition but only a small amount; perhaps a cicero.

columns

The NSA: ready to go
News from the National Skills Academy
With the National Skills Academy officially launched, Florence Orban explains how the academy will work on behalf of the sport and active leisure sector.

The CLOA agenda
News from CLOA
John Bell offers an insight to the workings of CLOA, the professional association for leaders in culture and leisure.

features

The magic numbers
The Leisure Review talks to David Minton of the Leisure Database Company about how information has changed our approach leisure management.

Open water: battled at source
Mick Owen explores the canoeing controversy that has blown up around access to the rivers of Wales and the implications for the pursuit of other sports.

The more the merrier
Parasport is an organisation created to direct people with disabilities towards sport who may not have thought that sport was for them. The Leisure Review found out how they work.

Writing the book on volunteering
In Nicky McCrudden, Mick Owen would like to think he has found a kindred spirit. Here he explains why the work of a one-woman whirlwind has left him and many others breathless.

Vaness Bone: an appreciation
Jonathan Ives remembers a leading light of the cultural sector.

recent features from The Leisure Review

In full flow
With the river and the British Open in full flow, Mick Owen went to see what impact the stars of UK’s top canoeing competition would have on their hosts.

Part of the team
Ian Jackson reports from the 2008 Youth Sport Trust School and Sport Partnership Conference in Telford.

Paralympic lessons for London
Kim Wright travelled from Hackney to Beijing to see what London 2012 can learn from the Paralympic experience.

Walking out one morning: Barcelona revisited
Is the power of the Olympics to regenerate cities and transform communities a realistic proposition? The Leisure Review went to Barcelona to find out.

The coaching road to success
After his visit to the British Open in October 2007 Mick Owen returned to Manchester to see what had changed for the sport of squash.

Saddling up for the big show
Cycle 2008 came to London to showcase everything the cycling market has to offer. The Leisure Review sent its travel correspondent to Earls Court to see what he could find.

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