Mission 2014/16
UK Sport’s 'Mission' process exists to produce performance impact and ensure investment in sports through the World Class Performance Programme remains on track to deliver success.
Initiated in the London cycle, Mission 2012 was designed to encourage sports to conduct their own assessments of how their system was performing and to bring additional expertise to bear in finding creative solutions to problems.
Now, as Mission 2014 and Mission 2016, both good practice and potential problems continue to be captured and developed by winter and summer sports into action plans ahead of the Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Games.
The Mission has encouraged greater honestly and focus within the system and improved the ability, not only to identify critical issues, but also possible solutions before they have a negative impact.
The process requires sports to think about their performance programmes in three dimensions; Athletes, System and Climate. Evidence based and measurable progress in each of these dimensions is recorded using a traffic light approach.
UK Sport captured the progress of Mission 2012 for all funded Olympic and Paralympic sports ahead of London 2012 on tracker boards in its London based office, and continues to do so for Mission 2014 and Mission 2016 ahead of Sochi and Rio.
