News & Updates
“Services2Sport is a new sports
coaching and development agency
who provide a complete support
service for sports coaches across
the Yorkshire and Humber region”
CRB
S2S are pleased to announce that they have gained umbrella status for CRB checks, please watch this space for further details.
Congratulations
S2S would like to congratulate our community sports coach Ian Johns as he has just won "Coach of the Year" for the North Lincolnshie Area.
Picture of Ian receiving his award from Nigel Adkins (Scunthorpe Utd Football Club Manager).
S2S would also like to offer congratulations to our community sports coach Richard Travis who has recently taken part in the World Senior Badminton Championships in Spain. First of all to qualify for England representation you have to be in the top 4 players in the country.34 countries participated with 720 players.
Richard reached the last 32 in the singles losing to Nielsen from Denmark and last 16 in the doubles losing to the 1st seeds from Thailand.
Richard also finished at the semi final stage in both singles and mens doubles at the English Senior National Championships held during November. Lost to second seed/s in each event. 250 entries across the various age groups from 40s to 65s
S2S would like to congratulate our Community Sports Coaches for their excellent work and positive feedback recieved for the first term.
Preferred provider for sports coaches in North Lincolnshire
Sports coaches, play workers and volunteers are crucial to the success of play and sport. And following a procurement process undertaken by North Lincolnshire Council (http://www.northlincs.gov.uk/NorthLincs/), S2S Sports Coaching Agency (S2S) is now the preferred provider of sports coaching services across North Lincolnshire.
S2S are constantly recruiting new coaches, if you would like to take up this opportunity then please register your details. If you are already registered and have attended further training, then please let S2S know.
Coaches Forum.
The first of what is hoped to be a regular series of sport coaching forums took place at the University of Hull, Sports and Fitness Centre on Inglemire Lane, Hull early in July. The forum was coordinated by Garreth Roberts the Coaching Development Manager at Humber Sports Partnership. To Read more please click here.
School Coaching Hours
Between April 2009 and July 2009, S2S has deployed 63 coaches into 83 schools across the four local authority areas within the Humber.
Between May 2009 and July 2009, S2S has deployed 3 coaches into 5 schools within West Yorkshire.
Some feedback from teachers that is worthy of mention is:
“Staff and pupils both really enjoyed the session”
“Reliability and quality of coaches. Good at finding replacement coaches & informing school of any problems/ changes”
"Good value for money, variety of sports available, good administration and communication”
"New ideas – especially with progression and routines”
Coach Education Programme Update
Between Dec 2009 and Jan 2010 S2S has delivered 15 courses spread across the Humber which were attended by 210 people.
The breakdown of the courses are as follows:
Hull: 6 courses were held in Hull attracting 89 people.
East Riding: 4 courses in the East Riding that attracted 62 people.
N E Lincs: 3 courses in N E Lincs that attracted 46 people
N Lincs: 2 course in N Lincs that attracted 13 people
The new 2010 - 2011 Coach Education Programme will be avaiable shortly please check out the Training section of the website for up to date details.
COACHING BURSARY Get 60% of your course fees reimbursed for more details click here!
Watch this space for details.
Benefits - Coaches
The process of becoming a member of S2S begins with signing up to full membership of S2S.
Up-skilling of coaches
For coaches, the benefits revolve around them being better qualified with easier access to career pathways and development. In order to be successful sports coaching needs to be able to provide career pathways and some form of sustainability. At present most coaches operate in a part-time capacity as the work is mainly sessional therefore by up-skilling and through cross-fertilisation, sports coaches will be in a better position to access full-time work either as employed or as self-employed through their own businesses.
Employment, Self-employment, Placement and Volunteering Opportunities
The sports coaching agency will also work as a broker to bring together employment, placement and volunteer vacancies so that coaches have a number of opportunities to access full time employment, self-employment, placements or volunteering opportunities. This will address the needs of both the employer and the sports coach, providing the employer with the added comfort and verification that the coach they are using has attained certain minimum operating standards and the coach with the added benefits of being able to access employment either through paid employment, self-employment, volunteering or through a placement combined with improved skills training.
Quality Mark
Whilst some NGBs are in the process of establishing licensing/registration schemes this is still limited and the quality of coaching provision is in the main being delivered with little monitoring to check whether coaches have up to date qualifications or are fit for purpose to deliver the activities. The sports coaching agency will address these issues through the monitoring of provision and through the quality mark which will incorporate existing NGB registration schemes and the forthcoming UKCC licensing scheme which should be in place by the end of 2008.
It is intended to utilise and up-skill Sports Development Officers and Community Sports Coaches to assist with the delivery of this element providing them with skills in observing coaches, mentoring, training and coaching the coaches.
Data Collection
Other added benefits will include automatic information collected from the coaches to provide data to organisations who are interested in the statistical information about the coaching profession and key information on the training needs required by coaches.
Coaches into Business
The sports coaching agency will also encourage and enable coaches to become self-employed and to operate as a business which will be regulated through the quality mark that is to be established. Whilst self-employed they will be able to access work through the agency they will also be in a better position, with a recognised quality standard renewable yearly, to negotiate work themselves. The North West Coaching Agency, which is being run as a pilot in that area with support from SportsCoach UK and Sport England, shows even after the first 6 months of operation that this is a key area for development.
Benefits - Employers
For employers the up-skilling and minimum operating standards will ensure that the standard and quality of coaching provision is both improved and maintained through the development and monitoring of sports coaching skills.
The minimum operating standards are:
- At least a level 2 NGB Technical qualification
- Child Protection, First Aid and Equity qualified
- Insurance
- Enhanced CRB (if required)
For more information on our coaching services please contact the Project Manager Darren Eales on 01472 267404 or email darreneales@btconnect.com
S2S maintain high standards
of recruitment to protect
both candidates and employers.
