pmpgenesis http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events http://www.pmpgenesis.com/css/pmpgenesis/img/logo.gif http://www.pmpgenesis.com/ en-gb Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ For the past five months pmplegacy has been helping to manage the city selection process of England's bid to host the 2018 or 2022 FIFA World Cup. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=394 0 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:11:22 GMT It's January 2010. Twelve months ago the world was in turmoil with a collective overdraft of ?2,300,000,000,000 and many banks effectively part of the civil service. The size and scale of the turmoil in the world's financial markets, has been unprecedented and beyond all forecasts. Is there an analyst or forecaster who will ever trust their models and frameworks again? And now, one year on, every newsreader is seeking to be the first to identify the green shoots of recovery. Will the media fuel the recovery as it did the recession? http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=396 0 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:26:48 GMT Legacy Lives is back and it's returning to London. We look forward to welcoming you to the only international conference to focus on the legacy benefits that can and should be created by bidding for and hosting major sporting events. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=397 0 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:17:04 GMT As we approach the end of a difficult year for business, everyone is hoping that economic conditions will improve in 2010 leading to increased profits, employment and growth. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=401 0 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:53:41 GMT Glasgow based global pump engineering company CLYDEUNION Pumps has successfully launched CLYDEUNION Academy, an educational, learning and training centre that will support the company's extensive growth plans and offer employees fully accredited qualifications in-house at the Cathcart site. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=404 0 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:03:12 GMT pmpgenesis has been commissioned to work with Fáilte Ireland - the Tourism Development Authority of Ireland - to roll out the Minimum Standards Categorisation for golf tourism. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=405 0 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:32:45 GMT A cancerous culture exists within football that must be addressed if the beautiful game is to live-up to its responsibility as the world's most loved sport. It is time for the games top brass to take decisive action before the cancer spreads further. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=406 0 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:47:02 GMT Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost of The New York Yankees was recently asked if he would be selling off the naming rights for the new Yankees Stadium. His response? "You wouldn't rename the White House, you wouldn't rename Grant's Tomb and you wouldn't rename the Grand Canyon. This is Yankee Stadium, and this will always be Yankee Stadium." Source: BBC News http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=431 0 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:50:28 GMT pmpgenesis item http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=434 0 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:27:19 GMT A two-day course for senior leisure professionals to become a Quest Internal Assessor. This course is also an ideal personal development tool for understanding more about Quest and how it can help to improve your organisation. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=438 0 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:09:46 GMT A one-day workshop for leisure professionals who are seeking to implement Quest within their organisation. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=439 0 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:15:53 GMT Without much fanfare, the final hurdles to fully ratify the Lisbon Treaty were overcome on 3 November 2009 when the Czech Republic completed the process. Sport is part of the Treaty for the first time meaning that the European Union (EU) will be able to provide funding, share best practice and define the specific nature of sport with respect to current legislation. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=442 0 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:12:23 GMT pmpgenesis has been appointed by Cotswold District Council to undertake a comprehensive study of PPG17 Open Space, Sport and Recreation - to assess the adequacy of, and prepare a strategy for open space, and sports and recreational facilities in the area. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=443 0 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:26:19 GMT pmpgenesis item http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=444 0 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:37:45 GMT The scene is all too familiar. The trembling 18 year old walks into the room and stands in front of the judges with her hopes high. Sandra launches into an unaccompanied version of "Hero" by Mariah Carey. After a cringing verse and thirty seconds of ridicule she is sent on her way in floods of tears. Simon Cowell has told her she can't sing and her dream is over. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=445 0 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:51:08 GMT "Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" - Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill may have been talking about society in general, but it is not too late for a similar enlightenment to occur in Scottish football. The spirit of the beautiful game in Scotland has to be rekindled at all levels. The sport and its key stakeholders are pursuing the wrong goals. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=459 0 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:32:27 GMT pmpgenesis item http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=465 0 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:07:29 GMT Plans for a new £12m health and wellbeing centre in Newcastle-under-Lyme are now well on their way. Following feasibility and business planning work carried out by pmpgenesis, the new designs for the facility, drawn up by William Saunders Partnership, have also been approved. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=466 0 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:09:26 GMT Cherwell District Council (CDC) has announced the opening of the new £15m Spiceball Leisure Centre in Banbury, Oxfordshire, which has been completed on budget ahead of schedule. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=467 0 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:30:35 GMT Britain's 'golden decade of sport' has begun. The roster starts with the Ryder Cup 2010 in Wales then builds to London 2012, and on to Glasgow's Commonwealth Games 2014, the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, the Rugby World Cup in 2015, a possible FIFA World Cup in 2018 and the Cricket World Cup in 2019. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=477 0 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:51:53 GMT Attendance figures for the Third Round fixtures of the Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup) have been surprisingly low and the media has been quick to use this to raise the question - Does the magic of the FA Cup still exist? http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=481 0 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:29:47 GMT "The FA and the Premier League really need to get together immediately on how they're going to address this situation. For the national team in the future it is looking very, very bleak". Sam Allardyce (Manager, Blackburn Rovers) [(source: Interview with Sky Sports News - 31/12/09)] http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=485 0 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:39:40 GMT Skanska-RM has been selected as preferred bidder for the Essex Building Schools for the Future programme. Initially, this is for the development, construction and maintenance of three schools for Essex County Council: Chelmsford New Model Special School, Cornelius Vermuyden School and Arts College and Castle View School. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=487 0 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:42:39 GMT It's been one year since Partnerships for Schools announced that local authorities in Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Wave 7 and beyond must have a complete and up-to-date playing fields strategy. For many, this was seen as yet another obstacle on the rocky BSF highway. But, argues Marcus Kingwell, a playing fields strategy can be one of the most powerful and lucrative sports planning documents that a local authority can have. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=489 0 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:42:07 GMT In the wake of the announcement of the 2016 Olympic host city and growing interest in next years football World Cup in South Africa, there is renewed interest in how to increase public participation in sport and get more people active across the UK. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=264 0 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:28:08 GMT Management consultancies PMP and Genesis announced today the merger of their businesses to form pmpgenesis. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=367 0 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:18:25 GMT pmpgenesis item http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=379 0 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:12:06 GMT At pmpgenesis we understand that everyone has different interests and needs. With companies offering so many services, it can be difficult to quickly access the information that is important to you. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=380 0 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:02:39 GMT One of the first casualties of a recession is ambition. As the current downturn has bitten, so the focus in many organisations has turned inwards and backwards. Leaders have found themselves on the back foot, stuck in survival mode and shrinking their organisations by cutting cost, investment and heads. In many instances the institutional priority has become identifying someone else to blame. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=381 0 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:50:54 GMT It is well known that physical activity performed on a regular basis is associated with significant physical and mental health benefits. Despite this, only 40% of men and 28% of women in England meet the Chief Medical Officer's recommendation of 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise, five days a week. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=382 0 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:05:03 GMT A recently completed pmpgensis study, commissioned by the City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Enterprise, has revealed that more than £200 million is needed over the next 20 years to improve existing, and deliver new, venues in the Scottish capital. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=370 0 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:10:41 GMT pmpgenesis has been working with Basildon District Council and Basildon Renaissance Partnership since 2005 on the development of Basildon Sporting Village. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=369 0 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:10:08 GMT pmpgenesis has been appointed to help Derby City Council realise its ambition to be England's most active city by 2015. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=368 0 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:09:38 GMT County Durham Sport and NHS County Durham has appointed pmpgenesis to undertake the development of a Physical Activity Strategy for the County. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=366 0 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:08:42 GMT pmpgenesis has been appointed to work with Ipswich Borough Council to complete a Culture and Leisure Needs Analysis to identify current supply and demand for a range of facilities, and to help develop the Council's cultural strategy for the next 15 years. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=365 0 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:07:59 GMT Members of the pmplegacy team have arrived back from a week in Delhi where they ran a programme of legacy planning workshops for those involved in the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. http://www.pmpgenesis.com/news-and-events/view?resid=263 0 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:07:05 GMT