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Active Sussex has teamed up with Brighton & Hove’s Healthy City Partnership to offer organisations in Sussex up to £500 seed money to start a healthy workplace scheme.

The fund gives businesses and organisations throughout Sussex the opportunity to trial programmes that improve the health and wellbeing of their staff.

“Our aim is to guide businesses through the process of creating a healthier workplace – and ultimately a healthier business,” explains Donna Imrie-Browne, who manages the grant scheme.

In all 20 projects received grants in the last round of funding for a wide range of work-based activities, from yoga sessions and weight management programmes to roller blade training.

Individual businesses can apply for funding up to a maximum of £500 to help run a scheme that meets the grant criteria. For more details, contact Donna Imrie on 07545 045 453 or Donna@active-solutions.co.uk

Guidance notes and an application form available for download under Useful Documents on our Active & Healthy Workplace page.

Closing date for completed applications: 30 September.

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Eastbourne College Year 11 boys competing at National Biathlon Championships, Bath, 2009

Pentathlon GB has changed its qualifying procedure for the Schools' Modern Biathlon competition. The 12 regional competitions, traditionally run in November and December, have been replaced by the electronic submission of run and swim times in order to qualify for this year's competition, which culminates in the British Championships on 25 March 2012. Schools should submit times for Years 5-13 on the entry spreadsheet, available online, by 1 December. 

For complete, up-to-date details of NGB offers to schools in Sussex this half-term, check the NGB support for schools page in our Knowledge Bank

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Have you been inspired by the recent success of Sussex Olympic sailor Alex Mills-Barton?

Over the next 12 months Cobnor Activities Centre Trust will be offering free sailing tuition up to RYA Level 1 and Level 2 for adults and young people aged 16 to 19.

After completion of the course, participants will be introduced to a sailing club in Chichester Harbour so they can continue to sail.

The first two day courses will be held over the weekends of 15-16 October, 14-15 April 2012 and 26-27 May 2012. More dates for next year will be announced later, which may include some weekday evening courses.  

The courses will be using lightweight Laser Pico dinghies. To register your interest please email sail@cobnor.com with your name, address, age, fitness level, which dates you would like to come (please give more than one if possible), why you would like to join this scheme and where you heard about it.    

Further details in next month’s issue of enews or watch Cobnor's website for updates.

www.cobnor.com

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A team of academics from the University of Chichester have travelled to Spain to test the skills of football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo for a new Sky Sports documentary.

The team, led by Sports Science lecturer Dr Neal Smith, carried out a series of innovative tests on the Portugese international, with the aim of discovering what makes him one of the best players in the world.

The academics spent five hours in a film studio with Ronaldo, using a variety of experiments to test his skills – including his sprinting and free-kick taking abilities. One of the tests involved Ronaldo kicking a football as hard as he could through a series of panes of glass in order to measure the maximum velocity of his shooting.

“We had a camera operating at 300 frames per second taking footage of Ronaldo kicking a ball as hard as possible through a series of panes of glass," explained Dr Smith. "Using special Quintic analysis software, developed in conjunction with the University of Chichester, we were able to measure ball speed, trajectory, and spin rate in each of the three rotational axes."

The programme, Ronaldo – Tested to the Limit, airs on Sky Sports Xtra on Saturday 10 September at 4:00pm and 10:00pm.

Dr Smith was assisted by University of Chichester Sports Science officer Zoe Wimshurst and technician Russell Peters.

To watch a trailer for the show go to castroledge.com/football

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