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Move Imperial and Imperial College Union have joined forces to create a new joint vision for sport.

Over the next four years this strategy will look to promote, support and enable our students and staff to enjoy a more active lifestyle. With six overarching objectives, we hope to positively impact all aspects of sport and physical activity at Imperial.

This strategy, and the fundamental changes it brings to sport and physical activity at the College, has the potential to make a sustainable and positive impact on the lifestyles, experience and wellbeing of our people for the better."

Will Hollyer

Head of Move Imperial

Our Vision

Promote, support and enable Imperial College London students and staff to enjoy a more active lifestyle.

Our Mission

Through our partnership, Move Imperial and Imperial College Union will provide affordable, accessible and appropriate physical activity opportunities for students and staff. We will work across College to passionately advocate the benefits of sport and physical activity to enable more people to enjoy an active lifestyle.

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Sports strategy objectives and pledges

For each of the six strands we've outlined the overall objective and what we pledge to do by October 2018. Read the full strategy to see all the objectives for each strand.

Identity

Overall objective:
Develop a strong brand and structure for sport that delivers added value to the College's profile

By October we pledge to:
Develop a new governance framework for sport that creates a newly branded 'one stop shop' for Sport to enhance communication channels and student experience.

Active

Overall objective:
Increase activity levels to all of our people

By October we pledge to:
Conduct a price review across Sport Imperial programmes and memberships to ensure their value, and pledging any resulting surpluses to strategic plans. We will consult with students/staff to identify what the priorities are for reinvestment.

Wellbeing

Overall objective:
Use physical activity as a tool to improve the wellbeing of our people

By October we pledge to:
Develop an activity tracking app for our people allowing us to have a validated tool to measure activity levels.

Success

Overall objectives:
Deliver a high achieving sports programme

By October we pledge to:
Build a new performance club framework through consultation with students on appropriate selection criteria

Experience

Overall objectives:
Deliver an excellent customer service for our people

By October we pledge to:
Develop a customer charter across the new sport governance framework setting out response times to customer queries and target durations to resolve issues.

Resources

Overall objectives:
Enable the appropriate resources and environments to allow our people to enjoy an active lifestyle

By October we pledge to:
Initiate a tender process for new gym equipment for Ethos, Hammersmith and Charing Cross.

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