One Week to go to the West Midlands Community Sports Awards

The shortlisted nominees in all categories are as follows:

Community Coach of the Year - sponsored by Sport Structures

Clive Allen - Basketball

John Anderson - Angling

Pat Benson - Boxing

Freddie Fairbairn - Volleyball

Jon Newton - Football

Kristien Wood - Football

BBC Local Radio Newcomer of the Year

B-Row – Youth Rowing

Finley Clarke – Bmx

Evie Richards - Cycling

Shrewbury Parkrun

Shaun Stretton – Multi-Sport

Lauren Wareing - Dance

AoC Inspirational Sport Student of The Year

Beth Evans - Telford And Shropshire

Keyron Facey-Price - Black Country

Abbie Jackson - Staffordshire And Stoke-On-Trent

Daniel Wyatt - Birmingham

Kashif Yakoob - Coventry, Solihull And Warwickshire

Community Project Of The Year – sponsored by the West Midlands CSP Network

Climbing Out – Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin

Impact (Sky Blues In The Community) – Coventry, Solihull And Warwickshire

Make It Like Mandeville – Herefordshire And Worcestershire

One Albion – Black Country

Round House Boxing Club – Staffordshire and Stoke On Trent

Sport 4 Life UK – Birmingham
 

BBC Midlands Sports Unsung Hero

John Curnock - Worcester Amateur Boxing Club

Ashok Das - International Kabaddi Federation

Denis Neenan - Erin Go Bragh Club

Paul Sanderson - Telford Athletics Club

Fiona Smith - Swimming After Surgery
 

Community Club of the Year – sponsored by the University of Birmingham

City Of Birmingham Gymnastics Club

Coundon Court Football Club

Hereford Roller Girls

Newcastle (Staffs) Volleyball Club

Sandwell Steelers American Football Club

Shifnal Cricket Club

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For media comment please email Joanne Taylor, Communications and Marketing Officer for the Black Country BeActive Partnership.

Editor’s notes

For more details about the Black Country BeActive Partnership, please visit www.blackcountrybeactive.co.uk
 

For more details about the West Midlands Community Sports Awards, please visit www.westmidlandscommunitysportsawards.co.uk
 

County Sports Partnerships (CSPs) are networks of local agencies committed to working together to increase participation in sport and physical activity. Partners include National Governing Bodies of Sport and their clubs, school sport partnerships, local authorities, sport and leisure facilities, primary care trusts and many other sport and non-sporting organisations. CSPs are led by a strategic board supported by a central team of professional staff who provide leadership, coordination and structures which allow people and organisations to work more effectively together at a sub-regional level. For further details visit www.cspnetwork.org

The Association of Colleges (AoC) represents the interests of over 350 further education, sixth form, and specialist colleges in England including 45 in the West Midlands region.  Together colleges:
 
• Educate 853,000 people aged 16 to 18, almost twice as many as school sixth forms. This includes 185,000 young people taking A-levels;
 • Train over one quarter of the total 240,000 apprentices aged 16-18;
 • Educate and train over two million people aged 19 and over;
 • Account for 33% of entrants to higher education and for 11% of those studying at undergraduate or higher national (for example, foundation degrees).
 
AoC Sport, an AoC subsidiary company is the lead membership organisation for college sport and physical activity.  For more information visit www.aoc.co.uk 

For more details on the event please contact Andy Knowles on andy@westmidlandscommunitysportsawards.co.uk