Coach Development Workshops

Coach Development Workshops

 

Safeguarding & Protecting Children workshop

Date: Monday 30th March Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Hawick Cricket Club Price: £20 Outline: This sports coach UK workshop meets the same learning outcomes as the original Good Practice and Child Protection workshop. Therefore, despite this revision to the content and change of title, previous attendance on a Good Practice and Child Protection workshop will still be valid. When coaches are required to update their certificate of attendance, they will attend the new Safeguarding and Protecting Children workshop. There is no need to undertake the new workshop immediately as a result of this change.

How to Coach Children & Young People in Sport
	Date: Monday 19th April Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Venue: Volunteer Hall, Galashiels Price: £20 Outline: Discover the needs and motivation of young performers. Learn how to deliver effective coaching sessions to meet the level of skill, developmental stage and motivation of each young performer.

There are a number of course that you can attend in the Borders listed below:
If you are interested in attending any of the courses listed below please contact Andy Lawrie at andy.lawrie@scotborders.gov.uk to express an interest in the workshop.

Sports Coach UK and Running Sports offer a number of workshops to help coaches develop and learn skills that will help them in there coaching roles.
The courses available through Sports Coach UK are:

Safeguarding and Protecting Children:

This workshop is aimed at any individual who is involved with coaching, leading or assisting within children's activities. It covers topics including good coaching practice, recognising signs of abuse and the correct course of action to take if concerns are raised.

Safeguarding and Protecting Children 2: reflecting on practice   (From April 2010)

This Workshop is aimed at coaches and those working with children and young people in sport. The workshop acknowledges and values the experience coaches have gained since the last workshop and builds on the knowledge and insight gained from Safeguarding and Protecting Children.

Analysing your Coaching:

Discover methods of analysing your own coaching performance and identify areas for development. Learn how to develop and implement an action plan to enhance your coaching.

Equity in Your Coaching:

This workshop is aimed at all coaches who wish to ensure that their coaching practices are fair and equitable and to raise coaches awareness as to the barriers that participants may face.

Coaching Disabled Performers:

This workshop is aimed at those that currently coach disabled performers and are looking to review and extend their current knowledge. It will cover areas including terminology, communication skills, medical considerations and more.

Coaching Children and Young People:

This workshop is aimed at coaches who currently work with young performers and covers topics including growth, social and emotional development, and how these relate to coaching in a practical manner.

The courses available through Running Sports are:

A Club for All
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

1. describe sportsequity and its values
2. list the benefits of sports equity for their sports club or organisation
3. identify equitable and inequitable practice
4. identify key equity challenges for their sports club or organisation
5. identify the steps they may need to take in their own club or organisation to start a basic action plan for equity
6. identify the organisations that can help them and provide further guidance on sports equity.
    
    

Developing Partnerships with Clubs and Schools
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

1. list the benefits of linking schools and clubs
2. identify current initiatives and resources that can support the development of links between schools and clubs and support the development of junior clubs
3. identify ways in which groups can work together effectively to create successful partnerships
4. identify the key elements for developing junior clubs, and how this fits with Clubmark and National Governing Body (NGB) club programmes
5. create an outline plan for a particular development project

 

Funding for Your Club
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

1. develop a project mindful of the national agenda for sport and the funding opportunities available
2. identify the barriers to successful funding applications
3. identify sources of funding, including grants, sponsorship and general fund-raising
4. assess whether the Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) scheme or having Charitable status could be potential sources of additional revenue
5. identify the information required to develop a funding plan
6. describe ways of evaluating the effectiveness of their project.

 

How to Get Tax Breaks for Your Club
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

1. recognise the advantages of becoming a Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC)
2. describe the processes required to apply for CASC status
3. list the areas of development in order to apply for CASC status
4. understand the key elements of a successful application

 

Making the Most of Your People
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

1. describe the process of workforce development planning
2. explain the benefits of workforce development planning
3. establish an action plan to produce and implement a workforce development plan.

 

Needs Analysis
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

1. identify their personal outcomes for the workshop and their specific needs in relation to club and volunteer development
2. identify the key elements of the runningsports programme
3. link their specific needs to key elements of the runningsports programme
4. identify other organisations/programmes that could support club and volunteer development
5. produce an action plan to address their identified needs.

 

The Role of the Volunteer Coordinator
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

1. describe the role of the Volunteer Coordinator
2. analyse how clubs use volunteers and the implications for your club
3. review how clubs have developed the recruitment, retention and rewarding of volunteers
4. develop the roles and responsibilities of your volunteers
5. develop an action plan to further enhance the recruitment, retention and rewarding of volunteers both internally and externally to the club.

 

Valuing Your Sports Volunteers
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

1. assess the number of volunteers in their club or organisation
2. estimate the value of those volunteers
3. explain how they will make volunteering a key element of the management of their club or organisation
4. identify the critical path in planning for volunteers
5. agree a vision for volunteering/volunteer management in their organisation
6. translate the vision into goals and targets
7. select and apply methods of recruiting, retaining, recognising and rewarding volunteers in a sports activity
8. identify relevant local and national sources of support and information
9. explain the opportunities presented by the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics
10. commit to implementing volunteer management in their organisation.   

              

 

Action Planning for Your Club
    By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:        

1. explain the principles of sports development and sports performance pathways
2. explain the principles of the planning process
3. apply the principles of planning to sports development
4. write a sports development plan.

 If you are interested in attending any of the courses listed above please contact Andy Lawrie at andy.lawrie@scotborders.gov.uk to express an interest in the workshop.