The Good Sports Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In Episode 24, Dave heads to East London to catch up with the Monday morning session of Walking Football, run by the West Ham United Foundation. 

We hear from the staff, volunteers and participants about the difference the sessions are making, how the games are as inclusive as possible and who scored the most goals! Make sure you check out the new 'Any Old Irons' podcast from the West Ham Foundation for more on their work in the Community 

The gang then reflect on the interviews and relate to their experience of inclusive coaching. 

The quiz rivalry is renewed as Lee and Sara take on the walking sports challenge with info from the excellent Just Get Active Website.

This is our last podcast for 2019, but we will be launching a new season in 2020 where we aim to amplify the voices of people who have personally experienced the value of sport and development. We would love to hear from organisation in England who would be happy to have one of us come to speak to staff/volunteers/participants. If you are further afield, please drop us a line as we can advise on capturing content which we will edit and put together. 

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In episode 23 we kick off our focus on sport for development personal stories by speaking to our friend and fellow Cricket Without Boundaries volunteer Jhon Cosgrove (@pickledjhon on social media).

We talk to Jhon about his love of running going from a reluctant jogger to a sub 3 hour marathon obsessive. We discuss the benefits of parkrun, how his new habit has helped his mental health and his positive use of social media. We also explore the particular benefits of individual sports versus our more familiar territory of team pursuits.

Jhon also joins us for a slightly irreverent quiz on running - will he be able to beat out the regulars quizzers Sara and Lee?

We would love to hear from others who have used running to help their health, or if you have any general questions or comments, you can get in touch with us on:

Twitter: @goodsportscast
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Email: info@goodsportscast.org.uk

Our upcoming episodes will be focusing more on hearing the personal stories who have lived and breathed sport for social good. We've got some exciting stories in the pipeline!

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In this episode we hear from ConnectSport’s Simon Lansley on the latest in the Sport for Development sector. Lee and Sara then talk us through their respective travels. Lee has been in Jordan and is going to Nepal to coach cricket for social purpose. Sara has been in Malawi with the Liverpool FC project and is off to Tanzania to continue her monotoring and evaluation work as well coaching. The main event is an interview with Head of the Harlequins Rugby Club foundation, Marc Leckie. Marc talks through women’s rugby, cross sport colloboration and monitoring evaluation. You can find out more about the work of the foundation here, http://www.harlequins.foundation and follow Marc on twitter on @marcleckie We then have the last quiz of 2018 with a game of higher or lower. The stats are taken from the taking part survey which combines three themes of the pod, child’s sports, creative activities and legacies of mega event. But who will be the victor? As usual please do share and subcribe to the pod, it all helps. All ratings and feedback gladly received, as well as your questions, comments and thoughts. Get in touch with us through info@goodsportscast.org.uk or on twitter @goodsportscast.

The pod is one person down, as Sara is off in Malawi on her monitoring and evaluation trip. However, she has made time to phone in and give us an update on her work so far. Next we hear from Colin Milner, CEO and Founder of the International Council on Active Ageing. ICAA's mission is to promote Active Aging as a solution to improving the quality of life for older adult. We speak to Colin about the missed opportunity of not properly segmenting the older people audience, how physical activity can ensure older people are engaged in life and some good practice examples from around the globe. You can follow Colin on twitter here - @colinmilner. Then we hear from Tony Jameson-Allen, CEO and Founder of Sporting Memories. This is a UK based initiative to encourage older people especially those living with dementia to use sport as a tool for reminiscence. The sessions also now include physical activity as well. We discuss with Tony some of the challenges of measuring progress, how the sessions work and also the efforts to increase knowledge and understanding of how to ensure events are dementia friendly. We would also like to congratulate Sporting Memories for being shortlisted for the Sports Journalist Associations 'Sport for Social Change' award. You can follow Tony on twitter here - @tja_evonet Lee and Dave then discuss their views on the interviews and their experience in this field. Clearly, there's a huge opportunity with an inactive population, but also a population that has many demographic subsets that require an analytical approach. Potentially, it's not quite as glamorous as working with children, but there are huge benefits of sport and development to both the individuals and easing the strain on health and social care systems. Finally, we would love to hear from projects who are working with groups of older adults. How do you attract different groups, how do you maintain participation and what hints and tips do you have? Please get in touch via the usual ways below: Twitter - @goodsportscast Instagram @goodsportscast Email - info@goodsportcast.org.uk Lee is off on a couple of very exciting sports and development projects in Jordan and Nepal so our schedule might be a bit erratic in the lead up to Christmas, but we will be bringing you updates from the field soon. As always thanks for listening!

In Episode 12, we explore how one of our shared passions, cricket and how it can be used for social development. The episode kicks off with an update on the latest Sport and Development stories from ConnectSport‘s Simon Lansley (@simonlansley). We then hear about Sara’s trip to Kenya with Cricket Without Boundaries. The pod then discuss the pros and cons of cricket as a tool for development including: How can the technical nature of the game be harnessed for good? Is the complicated nature of the game and the equipment an issue? How can it be used for gender equality? The interviews this episode are Richard Joyce, Richard Darwin and Vanessa Greene from UK cricket charity Chance 2 Shine. Finally, the quiz this week features five cricket charities which Lee and Sara have to guess from their descriptions.

In Episode 11, we take a look back at what we’ve learned so far on the pod, hear from Create Chief Executive Nicky Goulder and the quiz returns. Also for the first time, we record the (majority of) the podcast in person as the whole team are at the Cricket Without Boundaries training weekend. As we spoke about on the last episode, there is still time to volunteer with the charity in 2019, just go to cricketwithoutboundaries.com/volunteer We’d love to hear from you about anything Sport and Development related; if you have an idea, a news item, a question, or want to join us for a chat, get in touch on Twitter @goodsportscast or email info@goodsportscast.org.uk or visit our website www.goodsportscast.org.uk

This week on the Good Sports Podcast the team ran through some news items that had caught our eye in the last few weeks, then we interview Jordan Stephenson from Coaches Across Continents, and conclude with a quiz about the Beyond Sport Awards. We’d love to hear from you about anything Sport and Development related; if you have an idea, a news item, a question, or want to join us for a chat, get in touch on Twitter @goodsportscast or email info@goodsportscast.org.uk or visit our website www.goodsportscast.org.uk

This episode focuses on partnerships, which are a Sustainable Development Goal and also key in increasing the impact in Sport for Development. We spoke to the founders of Philanthropy Playmakers, Erica Prosser and Eric Shainock about their organisation. Founded in 2016, Philanthropy Playmakers provides resources for the sports philanthropy industry and those who see sports as a change agent for social good. Their work is largely in the USA but are looking at international expansion. You can follow them on twitter at @philplaymakers We also spoke to Sarah Mortiboys, the lead of the Sport for Development coalition, funded by Comic Relief. Find out more about the coalitions work and how it is bring partners together from across the Sport for Development sector to create a movement. You can follow Sarah on @sarahmortiboys1

In this episode, on the 100th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, we’re looking at the history of sport, sport for development, and the key figures in the development of the field. We explore where organised sport came from, how sport and development went from a UN and national government led enterprise to a civil society driven field, and those key civil society figures who put the field on the map. As always, we enjoyed another quiz, this week on famous Laureus ambassadors. And finally, we heard from a few of our past guests on what Sport for Development means to them. Finally, a reminder to get in touch! We’d love to hear from you. Drop us a message via email info@goodsportscast.org.uk or tweet us via @goodsportscast and don’t forget to subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We’ve got World Cup fever this week at the Good Sports Podcast; as the men’s football World Cup rolls into its final week we’re looking at both the use of football for good and how, or indeed if, mega international sporting events can be leveraged to secure a positive social legacy. First up we have a series of interviews with a variety of organisations that are using football to change people’s lives. Dave spoke with community organisations, journalists and a programme leader to help bring together a picture of the power of “the beautiful game”. We’d love to hear from you about anything Sport and Development related; if you have an idea, a news item, a question, or want to join us for a chat, get in touch on Twitter @goodsportscast or email info@goodsportscast.org.uk or visit our website www.goodsportscast.org.uk