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Sports Development Providers

Sport England, UK Coaching & Youth Sport Trust

Sports DevelopmentProvidersSport England, UK Coaching & Youth Sport Trust

What are providers?

Providers of sports development are organisations that strive to improve the grassroots level of sport and increase participation across all sports to encourage healthy and active lifestyles. Each provider will have a different focus and different campaigns, programmes and activities to promote sport and inclusion in sport.

P3 - Describe the structures and roles of three providers of Sports Development in the UK

Complete the three PowerPoints for the three providers covering each individual heading. This should include a definition and examples throughout. To finish off, you must add pictures.

UK COACHING

Everything under this heading will provide information on UK Coaching.


UK Coaching are the UK's provider of coaching qualifications, their aim is to develop and inspire coaches at all levels of the game. They also provide resources for SEN sport, coaching in alternative provisions and safeguarding.


They strive to help coaches with their professional development and this includes putting on workshops and refresher courses as well as providing qualifications. Some of the workshops include 'Building Confidence', 'Safeguarding', 'Equity in Coaching', 'Inclusive activity programme', 'Behaviour Change Tactics', and 'What is Talent'.

UK COACHING RESOURCES
Here is a link to the sections of resources supplied by UK COACHING.
UK COACHING, WORKSHOPS, WEBINARS AND COURSES
Here is a link to the courses, workshops and webinars that coaches can attend ad access.

SPORT ENGLAND

Sport England are an organisation, funded by the national lottery, that has set out to increase participation across all sports and forms of physical activity in order to promote an active, healthy lifestyle.


Sport England invest money into other organisations in order to create better opportunities and to tackle inactivity. Some examples of what they do and how they do it can be found below.

Sport England's Five Billion Stories
SPORT ENGLAND - OUR WORK
This is a link to all of the different things Sport England fun and develop.
SPORT ENGLAND - RESOURCES
Here is a link to resources and documents that help more people get involved in sport in different organisations.

YOUTH SPORT TRUST

Youth Sport Trust are a charity organisation that aim to develop sport for young children, one of the five target groups that have less participants involved in sport.


Since 1995 YST have been at the heart of improving children's lives through sport. 'Believing in every child's future' - sets out how we will harness the power of sport, play and physical activity to tackle the challenges of a new generation.

Youth Sport Trust | PE CatalYST