Energize have recently set up a project named ‘Mumability’ aiming to increase the amount of women and girls participating in sport and physical activity and to empower them to take up coaching an leadership positions. Energize are working with primary schools and community groups (e.g. Couch 2 5k) to start up sessions to get, primarily, mums of any age active in their day to day life. Running has…
The FA in partnership with Derbyshire County FA, are running a support event for female coaches The support evening is running on 22nd September at Codnor Pavilion (Codnor Boys F.C), Goose Lane, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 9RG, at 7.30pm. The event is for any female coach who is looking to gain more support to develop their coaching, whatever their level of qualification. The event will be led by The…
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 attentio…
More women are on their way to becoming qualified squash coaches following our Women and Girls Level 1 Award in Coaching Squash. Fully-funded by England Squash and their Foundation, the course, held on 30 July at Edgbaston Priory, trained and upskilled 11 women in delivering squash to women and girls, enabling them to progress through our coaching pathway and develop players from grassroots to eli…
Local coaches from Bedfordshire attended an awards evening with their friends and family on Monday 4th July 2016 at the Rufus Centre in Flitwick to receive their cheques and certificates. The awards were presented by the Director at team BEDS&LUTON, Lloyd Conaway. The coaching bursary funding is provided to help support coaches obtain their qualifications and develop further as a coach having…
No you didn’t!!! Every Friday we upload an incomplete infographic to our Facebook page that contains a fact about coaching which has been provided by our boffins in the research team. We then put the fact into an infographic and remove a figure or two for you to take a guess at! All you need to do is pop a guess in the comments box below the image as to what you think the value is and share it wi…
sports coach UK is inviting tenders to evaluate the early stages of the Reach campaign. This includes consolidating the learning from existing women into coaching projects and developing case studies with Reach coaches and organisaitons. To read the full invitation to tender please click on this link. The closing date for tender applications is 5pm on Friday 22 July 2016.
County Durham Sport is currently gathering as much information about the sport and physical activity habits of Women and Girls in County Durham. The survey will help to identify gaps in provision and demand for activities in certain areas, allowing them and local partners to target resources and therefore improve provision across County Durham. Whether you are totally inactive, extremely sporty or…
While women only make up a fifth of the cycling coach-force, British Cycling report that times are changing. The number of women cycling coaches has jumped an enormous 70% in the last three years, according to numbers announced by British Cycling this week. Reporting on the success of its ‘women’s strategy’ which launched in 2013, the UK’s cycling governing body is heralding the progress made in b…
Every Friday we upload an incomplete infographic to our Facebook page that contains a fact about coaching which has been provided by our research team. We then put the fact into an infographic and remove a figure for you all to take a guess at! All you need to do is take a guess in the comments box below the image as to what you think the value is and share it with other organisations and fellow…
