Shorts: City Football Group, Blast, Sported
Esports tournament organiser and media network BLAST has appointed Charlotte Kenny as Managing Director of BLAST Premier. After seven years working in football with Arsenal FC and Club Affairs, Kenny arrives with a wealth of experience and a proven track record of growing revenue and fan engagement.
In the new role Kenny will focus on the growth and delivery of BLAST Premier as the company looks to enhance its industry-leading production, tournament operations and commercial portfolio.
City Football Group and BrandEd have unveiled the ‘City Football Leadership Institute’, a new education institute offering comprehensive business management, sport management and leadership programmes based around the CFG’s approach.
The City Football Leadership Institute joins BrandEd’s portfolio of education ventures including Sotheby’s Institute of Art and The School of The New York Times.
Sported, the largest network of sports and community groups in the UK, has announced a new partnership with Sport England. Sported has a foundational role in the sport and physical activity sector and is therefore well placed to help level up access to sport and physical activity across the country.
Sported has committed to co-deliver change at a national and local level and will receive National Lottery funding from Sport England over the next 5 years.
f1 Recruitment has become the first sports recruitment and search consultancy in the UK to have become an accredited B Corp, a private certification awarded to organisations that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability.
“For many years we have been putting societal change at the heart of our business objectives alongside our commercial goals,” said Amanda Fone, Founder and CEO of f1 Recruitment. “We will continue our work to help change the face of the marketing and communications sector to better represent the society we live in.”
Co-op Live, the UK’s first all-electric sports and entertainment arena currently under construction in Manchester, has announced the appointment of sustainability consultants Hope Solutions to deliver the arena’s net-zero carbon ambitions.
Under terms of the agreement, Hope Solutions will work closely with Co-op Live to maximise opportunities to make it as sustainable as possible from construction to opening and beyond.
Co-op Live is set to become the biggest indoor arena in the UK with a capacity for 23,500 people when it opens in 2023, and is part financed by Premier League champions Manchester City.
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