Club & Coach Development
Coach Development
Providing excellent coach education is a key element to successful community sports coaching. In partnership with Sports Coach UK ECSport has a range of different courses available for you!
Coaching is a key part of developing all sporting participants, and helping our athletes to achieve their personal goals is the main aim.
There are many external resources that you can access one of which is the Sports Coach UK Website.
You can access all coaching courses that are available from compulsory foundation workshops to high performance word class workshops.
Coming Soon - Junior Coach Education
Are you interested in becoming a coach?
If you are 16 years old or above the Community Sports Leader Award is the perfect opportunity to begin your coaching career.
For further information about any coaching courses please contact Tom Hickson.
Telephone - 01353 665555
Email - tom.hickson@eastcambs.gov.uk
Living Sport's Club & Coach Development Programme
Living Sport's Club & Coach Development Programme has been designed for coaches, officials and club administrators, to provide maximum benefit at minimum cost.
For information about Living Sport's forthcoming courses, please use the Education & Training in Sports page of the Living Sport website.
Disability Coaching Courses
For coaching courses relating to coaching disabled performers, please see specific courses outlined within the Disability Sports pages, or by using the link below:
Sportivate Programme
The Sportivate programme is part of the Play strand in Sport England's 'Places, People, Play' plans. It is a four year programme and will run from 1st April 2011 - 31st March 2015.
The overall aim of the programme is to get 300,000 'semi sporty' participants aged 14-25 years to complete weekly coaching sessions over the 4 years, with two in five (120,000) to carry on playing sport regularly.
LIVING SPORT will be accountable for the delivery of the programme for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.
For more information please visit the Sportivate pages on the LIVING SPORT website or contact either Ross Hayward at ross.hayward@livingsport.co.uk or Charlotte Jane at charlotte.jane@livingsport.co.uk.
Club Development
The benefits of developing your club are invaluable to its success. Increasing the number of members, gaining volunteers and securing funding is just the beginning of what we must achieve to keep our clubs alive.
Are you a sports club within the East Cambs District?
EC Sport aims to increase participation across each of our sports clubs, recruit new volunteers and help to secure funding.
To achieve this we need to hear from you!
The districts Sports Development Officer Tom Hickson is looking to develop a number of programmes to help improve your club.
If you would like to know more information contact Tom by using the details below.
Telephone - 01353 665555
e-mail - tom.hickson@eastcambs.gov.uk