Did You Know – August 2016
CPSU Positive sports parents – videos for parents
These short clips for parents look at how they can help young people play and achieve to the best of their ability. They’re excerpts from a longer interview with Dr Camilla Knight titled ‘Positive sports parents – valuing their contribution’. Access the videos
CPSU, NSPCC Positive sports parents – videos for coaches and clubs
These short videos aim to help coaches and sports clubs realise the potential of parental involvement. They discuss why it’s important to get parents involved and how to work with them to make sure children and young people enjoy and do well in their chosen sport. The clips are excerpts from a longer interview with Dr Camilla Knight titled ‘Positive sports parents – valuing their contribution’. Access the videos
Everyday Heroes campaign – Coaches are Everyday Heroes and you could be too
As the world turns its attention to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, sports coach UK has launched Everyday Heroes, a campaign to raise the profile of coaches and coaching at all levels of sport and physical activity in the UK.
Whilst Olympic stars and the coaches behind them are currently in the media spotlight there are many Everyday Heroes across the country who rarely, if ever, receive such attention for their achievements.
Around 1.3 million coaches provide coaching to more than 7 million people across the UK while 81% of participants state that coaching improves their enjoyment of sport.
While the performers in Rio are at the top of their game, our Everyday Heroes coach and lead the whole spectrum of participants. It’s not just about acquiring skills, it’s about helping and inspiring all people to achieve their sport and activity goals, whatever their ability, ambition and motivation.
One such heroine is Sam Barlow a fitness leader from Hull.
Working a busy job, Sam Barlow realised that she was struggling to meet other parents in the playground. She came up with the idea of asking other mums if they would like to go out for a run and made up a flyer for a teacher at her son’s school to circulate – continued…by reading coaches’ full stories via the campaign website www.sportscoachuk.org/everydayheroes. Share your thoughts and personal stories using #CoachingHeroes via social media.
Feeling inspired by the Everyday Heroes stories? Find out how you can get involved in coaching sport or physical activity at: www.sportscoachuk.org/getinvolved.
HM Revenue and Customs Webinars, e-learning, emails and videos on employing people
Help and support from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) about being an employer. Dates of forthcoming webinars on various topics are listed on this page. View the details
Women’s Sport Wednesdays
Women’s Sport Wednesdays is a campaign to encourage the nation to come together, get active, and raise money to help more women and girls reach their full potential through sport.
The first Women’s Sport Wednesday will take place on 5th October 2016, during national Women’s Sport Week (3-9 Oct), and will mark the start of an ongoing campaign to make Wednesdays the day of the week when every playing field, pitch, pool, track and court will be filled with women and girls playing sport and having fun, all in the name of charity.
We’re asking people all over the country to get involved by getting together with friends, colleagues or team mates to organise their own Women’s Sport Wednesdays fundraising events.
sports coach UK (week beginning 15 August 2016) Resources: Coach Plus – Combining coaching and technology to get more people active Following the success of our recent coaching and technology research project conducted in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) we are now launching a new pilot project – Coach Plus.
Coach Plus aims to combine the best of coaching with the best of technology to get more people active for longer.
Informed by our technology research and a number of other sports coach UK research studies, Coach Plus is a new coaching offer that we will pilot this year.
This page contains a number of resources that explain exactly what Coach Plus is and how partners can get involved to help us move coaching into new markets.
The Concept Paper sets out the full evidence base for Coach Plus. This is complemented by a one page summary, a project plan and a short video available to view on the link below: https://youtu.be/8VZk7QBHZI8
There is also a blog which can be accessed here: http://www.sportscoachuk.org/blog/fantasy-football-coach-%E2%80%93-new-coaching-offer
If you are interested in supporting this work and delivering the pilot please contact Michael Hopkinson, Research Consultant for more details – mhopkinson@sportscoachuk.org
Finding Coaches of the Future: A Guide to Effective Coach Recruitment. sports coach UK
This interactive toolkit aims to help organisations find coaches of the future and recruit them successfully. It includes information and tips on:
key questions to consider when planning for recruitment
- how to encourage new people into coaching
- Promoting the benefits of coaching
- tools to help with recruitment
- Where to go for further support or advice
Coach Plus: combining coaching and technology to get more people active. sports coach UK Research Team Concept Paper
The aim of this Concept Paper is two fold:
1) To present an idea for a new coaching offer that will drive coaching into new markets, based on the evidence collected in our recent research studies.
2) A call to action to the coaching industry that identifies and recruits partners who are interested in working with us to test this new idea in practice. Download a copy
Coach Plus: combining coaching and technology to get more people active. Project Plan. This Project Plan underpins the Coach Plus Concept Paper recently published by sports coach UK.
This Project Plan sets out the timescales and milestones for delivering the Coach Plus pilot project. The plan is a first iteration and should be viewed as such by interested partners. As well as helping to shape the project there is scope for partners to help refine the plan and the indicative timescales once a project group has been convened.
The aim of this document is to help partners responding to our call to action and declaring their interest in supporting Coach Plus understand the time and work implications involved. Download a copy
Coach Plus – What the evidence shows. sports coach UK
Coach Plus will engage inactive and non-coached groups who are motivated to improve their health and fitness and interested in using technology to support their participation. This document provides an overview of the initiative. Download a copy
Women In Sport Insight Tour 2016/17
From September, Women in Sport will be delivering a number of events to share our learning from recent insights and explore, with partners, how to best action these findings. We will be taking these sessions ‘On Tour’ around the country with the aim of reaching new audiences and making our insight more accessible.
These Sport England funded events will be a mixture of interactive workshops and online events.
The three-hour workshop style events will focus on ‘leveraging influencers and role models for the benefit of women and girls in sport’. Discussions will centre on Women in Sport’s ‘What Sways Women to Play Sport? (2015)’ research and explore how this can be used to change sporting behaviours locally. The workshops will be a mixture of round table discussions, case studies and presentations from Women in Sport, with plenty of time for delegates to network.
The online events will be delivered as a series of interactive webinars, they will be presentations from the Women in Sport team and some special guests. There will be opportunity for delegates to interact throughout and will have topics which cover a broad range, outlined below.
The events will be aimed at Sports Development professionals who work with local and regional networks to engage women and girls in sport and physical activity at all levels. We would love you to pass information about these events onto any of your colleagues, or through your networks, to help encourage as many people as possible to attend.
Early Bird discounts will be available until September 9th 2016. Please click here for more information
If you have any questions or would like further information, please email Heather@WomeninSport.org or call 07702452079.