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What a great week we’ve had here at SAV Media.

The highlight of our busy schedule was the launch of a new Sport England initiative for our good friends at Active Devon and the Cornwall Sports Partnership. They’re delivering a fantastic project called Sportivate that allows young people aged between 14 and 25 to have a go at pretty much any sport or exercise activity you can think of.

A fantastic day to get out on the water

The scheme was launched nationally on Tuesday and we were really excited to be involved in the event that kicked off Sportivate here in the South West. We were at Roadford Lake for one of several free watersports taster sessions that had been laid on for young people from Devon and Cornwall.

We were blessed with absolutely glorious weather, brilliant sunshine and a decent breeze – we’d like to say we arranged that but some things are beyond even SAV’s organisational powers! Mark did his usual highly professional job of hosting the formal presentations and it was really good to have the event so well supported both locally and nationally by the likes of Jeremy Lemarchand and Tim Coventry from Sport England, Graham Manchester from the RYA and Andy Parsons from our superb hosts, the South West Lakes Trust.

It was also great to have a true sporting champion there to endorse what Sportivate is all about. Izzy Hamilton from Bude is the world youth windsurfing champion and she’s a good bet to represent GB at the 2016 Olympics. She didn’t need any persuasion to get into her wetsuit and on to the water to help the youngsters who’d signed up to have a go at dinghy sailing and windsurfing. What a star. It was brilliant to watch her out there passing on a few tricks of the trade and to see those novices having so much fun and to hear such a lot of them saying they wanted to come back and do it again, despite a few capsizes and dunkings.

Mark hosts the launch and introduces VIP guests

Now Roadford is a beautiful location but it isn’t the easiest to reach for some of our hard-pressed media colleagues with so many calls on their time and stretched resources. But with SAV media, NO PROBLEM. With our unique background, skills and contacts  it meant we could service everybody’s needs. We sent out comprehensive press releases for newspapers and websites, audio clips for all our local radio stations and made a video that captured just how successful the Sportivate launch was. We know how to put on an event here in the Westcountry. We do have one regret though – we didn’t manage to get Matt Evans or Karen Jones from Active Devon and Tim Marrion or Natasha Howard from the Cornwall Sports Partnership anywhere near the water! Maybe next time…

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Before launching the company, Mark Tyler enjoyed a varied broadcasting career with the BBC and ITV, latterly as head of sport for ITV Westcountry and presenter of the evening regional news programme Westcountry Live. Today, in addition to running Sound and Vision, he presents regular programmes on radio, television and is a sought-after conference chairman.

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