Clubs, Coaches & Volunteers
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Club and Coach Education
The UK Vision for Coaching: "By 2012 the practice of coaching in the UK will be elevated to a profession acknowledged as central to the development of sport and the fulfillment of individual potential".
West Yorkshire Sport is committed to this aim and is supporting the valuable work of coaches across the region.
Clubmark
Clubmark is a cross-sport quality accreditation for clubs with junior sections. 60.5% of young people belong to a sports club outside school. It is vital that these clubs serve young people well. More...
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Courses for Coaches
There are a wide range of courses available to help you improve your skills and career in sport. More...
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Safeguarding Children in Sport
For information to help you ensure children and young people are safe at your club or away on trips, click here to look at our Safeguarding Children in Sport pages.
Step Into Sport
Step into Sport is a leadership and volunteering project, concentrating on training a new generation of volunteers, mostly aged between 14 and 19, but also the over 50s. The main aim is to coordinate more opportunities at a local level for young people and adults to become involved in leadership and volunteering through sport in their community.
Step into Sport builds on existing structures and programmes such as Junior Sports Leaders Award and Community Sports Leaders Award (CSLA) to encourage greater volunteer links between schools and clubs. More...
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Volunteers
Volunteers are the lifeblood of all sport organisations. There are many different roles that volunteers can play within sport - to find how you can become involved look at the links for local clubs, local bureaus and national organisations. More...
Find out more about Volunteering opportunities?
Latest Club, Coaching and Volunteer News
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 | Practical planning guide for sports clubs15th May 2009 Sport England, in partnership with the Department of Communities and Local Government, has ... More... |
 | Clubmark Gold success for Bradford RL Clubs16th April 2009 Bradford Metropolitan District Council, West Yorkshire Sport and the RFL celebrated the RFL ... More... |
 | Young Leaders Training Day 19th March 20091st April 2009 Over 60 year 5 pupils from 18 Primary Schools participated in a Training Day at the Richard Dunn ... More... |
 | New Managing Volunteers Qualification – A First For runningsports31st March 2009 If you manage volunteers as part of your role and would you like a qualification to demonstrate ... More... |
Latest Club, Coaching and Volunteer Events
 | Hands up for Sports Volunteering 2009 Conference – 28th April8th April 2009 This year’s Hands Up for Sports Volunteering Conference (organised by Knight, Kavanagh & ... More... |
 | Employer Engagement Event - April 293rd April 2009 As a team of students currently studying Sports Development at Leeds Metropolitan University we ... More... |
| Employer Engagement Event - April 293rd April 2009 As a team of students currently studying Sports Development at Leeds Metropolitan University we ... More... |
| Employer Engagement Event - April 293rd April 2009 As a team of students currently studying Sports Development at Leeds Metropolitan University we ... More... |
 | National Apprenticeship Week10th February 2009 To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, SkillsActive will be delivering an awareness event at ... More... |
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Community Sport Coach SchemeWhat is the Community Sports Coach Scheme?The headline objective for the Community Sports Coach ... More... | |
Club searchWelcome to our new searchable club database!Please select from a sport below and press 'Search' ... More... |