Leadership and volunteering pathways into coaching, officiating and event volunteering

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Leadership and volunteering pathways into
coaching, officiating and event volunteering
Suzanne Glavin, YST, Louise Gruchy, YST Stefan
Newbury, Judo YODO Chloe Kerr, Manchester YEVDO
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Supported by
Sponsored by
School and Sport Partnerships Conference 2008
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Outcomes

• Understand the ultimate aim behind the
  opportunities we are trying to create
• Understand the different pathways young people
  are able to access leadership, volunteering and
  coaching opportunities
• Explore sport specific models of progression and
  understand a young persons journey
• Receive updates on projects that are facilitating
  pathway development
• Shape the communication of these pathways to
  young people in our network

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Why Volunteering??? The ultimate aim is to
increase the quantity, quality and diversity of
young people engaged in volunteering and
leadership.

• Our objectives are to develop
• Leadership through Sport and
• Leadership in Sport
• The aims are to drive
• personal change by supporting the development
  of inter-personal skills, self-confidence and a
  sense of responsibility and
• structural change by working with key agencies
  to offer broader opportunities for young people
  to make a formal and valued contribution to the
  delivery of sport.

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• Coaching
• Recruit into Coaching
• School Sport Coaching

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Background
Announced by James Purnell the Minister in
September 2007. The aim is to recruit 8,000
adult volunteers into coaching in support of the
5 Hour Offer over the coming three years. The
programme will be delivered in 70 of the most
deprived areas of the country and will aim to
provide adults with the skills and inspiration to
volunteer as a coach. It is hoped the programme
will contribute to workforce development,
encourage people from deprived areas to be active
and personally involved in their communities, as
well as developing more adult role models within
school and community sport. Step into Sport
graduates will also be targeted.
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Background

• RiC will be delivered jointly by Sport England
  and YST.
• RiC in community settings will be delivered
  through CSPs in partnership with NGBs and other
  local partners.
• RiC in school settings will be delivered
  through Specialist Sports Colleges
• In year one YST will work with Specialist
  Sports Colleges to identify 91 colleges in the
  appropriate areas

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Strength of coaching in schools

• The 8,000 volunteer coaches will be deployed to
  support sports activity by 5-19 year olds.
• They will be deployed locally according to
  need.
• The strength of this should be that the
  coaching supports delivery across a range of
  needs in schools

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Main objective one

• To offer progression for graduates of the Step
  into Sport Programme
• The first step will be a leading into coaching
  course.
• This will build on the skills of leadership and
  add the more technical role of the coach
• On completion there will then be scholarships
  to support the achievement of NGB Coaching
  courses at L1 and 2

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Main objective two

• To provide a way into coaching for adults
• This will begin with a taster experience
• Then the delivery of the Sports Leaders UK 1
  day Leadership course
• The programme will then connect into the same
  leading into coaching course progressing the
  generic skills of leadership and the more
  technical role of the coach
• On completion of the leading into coaching
  course there will be scholarships to support the
  achievement of NGB Coaching courses at L1 and 2

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Other objectives

• To build on Specialist Sports College Community
  Plans that focus on the recruitment and
  deployment of the local community through
  coaching
• To develop the diversity of role models working
  in school sport through the recruitment of
  coaches from the local school community
• To make a positive and useful contribution to
  the delivery of the underpinning elements of the
  UK Coaching Framework entry to coaching and
  pre-coach roles.

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Leading into coaching course
The YST have begun working on the
development of a leading into coaching course
for potential coaches that builds on the
development of generic leadership skills and
develops an understanding of the coaching
process, specifically related to coaching
children and working within the school sport
context.
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Leading into coaching

• The proposal is to offer a lead into coaching
  course of 6 modules
• Information on recruits
• About RiC
• Benefits and expectations
• Course work
• Lead into coaching module
• What next

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Recruit into Coaching Model
RECRUITMENT AVENUES
LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS Identified community
groups from your plan E.g. unemployed, low
skilled etc
PROFESSIONAL SPORTS CLUBS
70 Sports Colleges Across the 70 most deprived
areas Selected on the basis of their Community
Plan
SiS GRADUATES
PARENTS
LOCAL PARTNER ORGANISATIONS LOCAL BUSINESSES
SPORTS COLLEGE FAMILY OF SCHOOLS
SSP PARTNER SCHOOLS
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Officiating How can we create pathways for young
people to become officials?
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Why young officials?
Year one

• Concern about demographic of officials
• No structure to support young people accessing
  officiating opportunities
• Awards unappealing
• Barriers to access
• Limited support
• Challenge perceptions

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Year one partners
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Aim and impact of year two

• Strategically embed and raise awareness of the
  young officials awards with NGB and YST networks
• Establish and clearly communicate pathways for
  young people to pursue officiating routes
• Create a network and legacy of young official
  volunteers
• Encourage a step change in the age profile of
  officials within 14 NGBs
• Create a volunteer workforce that fully reflects
  the demographics of the population and is
  inclusive of all
• Inspire you people to get involved
• Increase the awareness and importance of
  sportsmanship

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Young officials projectin numbers!

• 1 Youth Sport Trust manager
• 13 National Governing Bodies
• 13 young official development officers (YODOs)
  full time volunteers
• 1300 trained young officials
• 130 selected young officials to receive two major
  event officiating experiences
• 27,400 volunteering hours!

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Our most Precious Commodity are our young people
and we must do everything that we can to
encourage them to participate in order to protect
the future of sport Ron Pickering Former
National Athletics Coach and BBC Broadcaster
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The game of Boccia in both School and Community
settings will benefit from the enthusiasm and
knowledge which these Young Officials will bring
to the game. Anne Cradock (BYOA Tutor) April
2008 The best bit about the course was being
able to time-keep for my swimming club at their
championships. It allowed me to take part in the
event even though I was injured and unable to
swim. Howard (16)
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Event Volunteering How can we create pathways
for young people to access event volunteering
opportunities?
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Project need

• Develop something sustainable that will have a
  long term impact on event volunteering.
• Build on one-off event volunteering experiences
  young people have had through the UK School Games
  and Paralympic World Cup
• Create a structure to support personal change for
  young people
• Offer an alternative pathway for young leaders to
  volunteer
• Secure medium-term funding

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Aim and impact of event volunteering project

• Create a network of skilled young event
  volunteers
• Encourage a step change in the age profile of
  event volunteers used by major event organisers
  and National Governing Body events
• Create a volunteer workforce that fully reflects
  the demographics of each host city
• Inspire you people to get involved
• Create a legacy of young event volunteers in host
  cities throughout England
• Offer all young people involved the opportunity
  to attain a BTEC level 2 award in Event Support

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Event volunteering projectin numbers!

• 1 Youth Sport Trust manager
• 6 Host cities
• 6 young event volunteer development officers
  (YEVDOs) full time volunteers
• 50 Higher Education Institution recruited team
  managers
• 300 young people as event volunteers from local
  SSPs
• 900 major event volunteering experiences
• 29,000 volunteering hours!

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Proposed structure of young person involvement
YEVDM (YST)
Host city lead
YEVDO
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YP crew circa 6-8 yp
YP crew circa 6-8 yp
YP crew circa 6-8 yp
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YP crew circa 6-8 yp
YP crew circa 6-8 yp
YP crew circa 6-8 yp
3 major event volunteering opportunities per YP
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A young persons journey Stefan Newbury, Judo
officiating Chloe Kerr, Event volunteering
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Stefan Newbury
My officiating journey
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Proposed structure of young person involvement
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Chloe Kerr
My event volunteering journey
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• Task
• How do I currently support my young people?
• What type of support is required?
• Who is best placed to give this support?

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Pathways How are these currently
communicated?
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Leadership and Volunteering Pathway
Pathways into careers and lifelong volunteering
as a COACH, OFFICIAL, EVENT VOLUNTEER, TEAM
MANAGER, SPORTS ADMIN, IT AND MEDIA
16-19 Step OUT
SUSTAINING VOLUNTEERING (On-line Passport
mentoring)
DIVERSITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE (SiS Camp, research,
good practice)
Sport Diploma L 3 Vocational Quals International
Bacc NGB Specific Coach/official Awards SLUK
level 2 3 Awards
Leadership Academies
Community Vol Leading in clubs and events

• College Based Vol
• Extended Activity

NGB Volunteer future workforce camps
14-16 Step IN
Sport Diploma L 2 Vocational Quals NGB
introductory Leadership Awards SLUK level 1
2 Awards
TOP Link Confs

• School Based Vol
• Extended Activity
• Competition
• Events/festivals

Assisting in a club Supporting Events
11-14 Step ON
Sport Education SLUK Young Leaders Award
PE Curriculum (2 HQ PE) Transition Activity
Helping out in Club
Community Pathway
Deploy School Sport
Grow Education
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• Task
• In three groups (Coach, Official, Event
  Volunteer) consider and articulate what a
  quality pathway would/does look like?
• Who are the key partners ?
• How are opportunities advertised?
• How would young people understand these best?