Our Partners
We are indebted to outside agencies who pledge their support to Met-Track in all manner of ways. Most significantly, kit companies have historically become key partners in supporting a number of our activities, not least the coaches’ Diamond League, which has been the performance incentive programme that ensures our coaches work as hard as they can to maximise their effectiveness in what they deliver. They have also supplied Met-Track corporate uniform for our staff.
This gives all our coaches to give us a really professional image, not least when we take part in exercises such as our video made by South West TV for YouTube.
The Metropolitan Police Service were the lead agency for many of the early years of Met-Track, and continued as the lead partner after the British Athletics Charitable Trust took over governance of our project. The Met’ provide much of the human resources needed to provide local liaison, an office base for both Scheme Director and Manager to work in when necessary, and the corporate support needed to ensure that we reap the best possible opportunities for intelligence-led work to hit our target audience. Now Met-Track has set up independently, the Met’ continue to support the project in many ways.
This is far from all though, with the TSG (Territorial Support Group) delivering practical sessions that open up the why’s and wherefore’s of current day policing to young people, along with representatives of the firearms branch and presentations on ‘joint enterprise’ that all add tremendous value to what we do.
England Athletics clearly have a key role to play, and have supported us in various ways over the years. Coach education is a key segment of our development programme for the future, and the governing body of Athletics obviously has an important role to play in helping us get as many coaches involved as possible, and fully qualified. This is also an integral part of our strategy for sustainability for a long-term future.
HM Prison Service continue to avail serving Category D prisoners for exposure to our sessions all over London. Their enlightening talks and one on one mentoring of young Londoners is priceless. They deliver the reality of custody pulling no punches, leaving their audience in no doubt of what lies ahead should they opt to follow a negative lifestyle.
We also have to acknowledge a number of facility providers, not least Greenwich Leisure, or ‘Better’ as they are now known, who avail their facilities for our sessions free of charge. Other individual sites around the Capital also support us in this way and we are truly grateful, as facility hire is one expense that is not easily incorporated into a budget!
Future opportunities are anticipated through cementing links with the Volunteer Cadet Corps run by the Metropolitan Police Service, and other external organisations who are able to offer opportunities for young people to further their ambitions in sport, irrespective of their ability.
A project as wide ranging as Met-Track will obviously work with numerous other agencies to achieve its aims, and there are many that contribute in many diverse ways toward our operation across London.
In addition, Project Oracle have been an inspiration in providing advice on how we evaluate the value of our work to outside agencies and potential sponsors, while the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), who oversee the Metropolitan Police in London, have become a valuable high level partner linked to the Mayor of London. In an environment of rising crime both committed by and on young Londoners, these latter partnerships become ever more priceless.
A plethora of other links we are proud to be associated with include the Kicks football project, Serves, a project run by the Lawn Tennis Association, and various Premier League and EFL London football club community schemes.
This gives all our coaches to give us a really professional image, not least when we take part in exercises such as our video made by South West TV for YouTube.
The Metropolitan Police Service were the lead agency for many of the early years of Met-Track, and continued as the lead partner after the British Athletics Charitable Trust took over governance of our project. The Met’ provide much of the human resources needed to provide local liaison, an office base for both Scheme Director and Manager to work in when necessary, and the corporate support needed to ensure that we reap the best possible opportunities for intelligence-led work to hit our target audience. Now Met-Track has set up independently, the Met’ continue to support the project in many ways.
This is far from all though, with the TSG (Territorial Support Group) delivering practical sessions that open up the why’s and wherefore’s of current day policing to young people, along with representatives of the firearms branch and presentations on ‘joint enterprise’ that all add tremendous value to what we do.
England Athletics clearly have a key role to play, and have supported us in various ways over the years. Coach education is a key segment of our development programme for the future, and the governing body of Athletics obviously has an important role to play in helping us get as many coaches involved as possible, and fully qualified. This is also an integral part of our strategy for sustainability for a long-term future.
HM Prison Service continue to avail serving Category D prisoners for exposure to our sessions all over London. Their enlightening talks and one on one mentoring of young Londoners is priceless. They deliver the reality of custody pulling no punches, leaving their audience in no doubt of what lies ahead should they opt to follow a negative lifestyle.
We also have to acknowledge a number of facility providers, not least Greenwich Leisure, or ‘Better’ as they are now known, who avail their facilities for our sessions free of charge. Other individual sites around the Capital also support us in this way and we are truly grateful, as facility hire is one expense that is not easily incorporated into a budget!
Future opportunities are anticipated through cementing links with the Volunteer Cadet Corps run by the Metropolitan Police Service, and other external organisations who are able to offer opportunities for young people to further their ambitions in sport, irrespective of their ability.
A project as wide ranging as Met-Track will obviously work with numerous other agencies to achieve its aims, and there are many that contribute in many diverse ways toward our operation across London.
In addition, Project Oracle have been an inspiration in providing advice on how we evaluate the value of our work to outside agencies and potential sponsors, while the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), who oversee the Metropolitan Police in London, have become a valuable high level partner linked to the Mayor of London. In an environment of rising crime both committed by and on young Londoners, these latter partnerships become ever more priceless.
A plethora of other links we are proud to be associated with include the Kicks football project, Serves, a project run by the Lawn Tennis Association, and various Premier League and EFL London football club community schemes.