Education & Training Opportunities – 12 Sept 2017

Tuesday 12th September 2017

ClubStructures WorkshopClub Matters Workshop

Free – Understanding the options for club structures

It is important that sports clubs take the time to explore different club structures.

Mon 2nd October 2017 – 6.30-8.30pm
Staffordshire FA, Dyson Court, Staffordshire Technology Park,
Beaconside, Stafford, ST18 0LQ

To book your place – https://learn.sportenglandclubmatters.com – click ‘workshops’ and book on or
contact Claire Greenwood – 07772 223015 – mailto:cgreenwood@staffordbc.gov.uk

Download the poster to see what the workshop will cover.


EFDS reports –  Sign-up for a ‘Get Yourself Active’ learning event near you

Disability Rights UK and partners are holding a series of events across the country to share the learning from the Get Yourself Active (GYA) project. Project partners will share their experiences of developing better opportunities for disabled people to be more active. They will highlight their success through partnership work with disabled people’s user led organisations, social care, health and sport sector organisations. If this is your area of work, you can sign up for an event near you today.

Areas of interest:

  • Personal budgets, personal health budgets and the Care Act
  • Coproduction in design, development and delivery of physical activity and sport locally
  • The role of disabled people’s user led organisations in engaging with inactive disabled people
  • Outcomes of physical activity around independence, choice and control, health and wellbeing and community connections

Event listings:

  • North West, Manchester- 27 September 2017, 09.30 – 13.30
  • East- Peterborough, 2 October 2017, 10.00 – 14.00
  • Yorkshire- Leeds, 9 October 2017, 10.00 – 14.00
  • South West- Bristol, 10 October 2017, 10.00 – 14.00
  • South East- Southampton, 17 October 2017, 10.00 – 14.00
  • East Midlands- Leicester, 2 November 2017, 10.00 – 14.00
  • North East- Newcastle Upon Tyne, 9 November 2017, 10.00 – 14.00
  • West Midlands- Telford, 15 November 2017, 10.00 – 14.00

You can click here to sign up to your nearest event

View the full details


UK Coaching (formerly Sports Coach UK) Safeguarding and Protecting Children

Thursday 5th October 2017.
Newcastle Under Lyme College from 18:00 – 21:00.
Cost is £38 per person and you can book your place here.

Tuesday 17th October 2017.
Meadowside Leisure Centre, Burton-On-Trent from 18:30-21:30
Cost is £35 per person and you can book your place here.

First Aid

Tuesday 26th September 2017.
Stafford Borough Council Civic Offices from 18:30 – 21:30.
Cost is £30 per person and you can book your place here.

Tuesday 21st November 2017.
Meadowside Leisure Centre, Burton-On-Trent from 18:30 – 21:30.
Cost is £35 per person and you can book your place here.

Tuesday 5th December 2017.
Meadowside Leisure Centre, Burton-On-Trent from 18:30 – 21:30.
Cost is £35 per person and you can book your place here.

Further workshops programme will be announced over the year. In the meantime if you would like to request a specific closed workshop in Newcastle, Stoke or Staffordshire Moorlands then please contact John Prescott, Assistant Principle at Newcastle Under Lyme College, at john.prescott@nulc.ac.uk  or Ben Sproston, Curriculum Manager for Public Services and Sport  at ben.sproston@nulc.ac.uk . For closed workshop requests for all other areas of Staffordshire please contact Sophie Darby, Sport Structures Course Delivery Executive at SophieDarby@sportstructures.com
For further information, please contact Lee Booth, Workforce and Coaching Development Manager on lbooth@staffordbc.gov.uk or 01785 619730.