Learning Opportunities

Opportunities to support you to create safe, welcoming, and enjoyable environments for all participants.

Supporting Your Participants Through Solid Foundations

These are the corner stones on which we believe all those supporting activity should base their foundations upon. The follow opportunities have been developed with local and national partners to support our people to create safe, welcoming, and enjoyable environments for all participants.

Emergency First Aid in Sport

Our Emergency First Aid in Sport Course is aimed at those who are involved in physical and sporting activities who may need to administer basic first aid as part of their role. Courses we have currently available will be listed below.

Unconscious Bias

The Unconscious Bias online session aims to raise awareness that we all have biases. It is part of being human and was an important element in protecting us back in the cave days.

Today, however, as we have evolved, we should be able to recognise our biases, and therefore change our response to them. By doing this we will become more tolerant of and welcoming to difference.

If you are working to tackle inequalities and develop people more representative of your community, please make direct contact with Luke Green (Workforce Development Officer - l.green@active-together.org) to discuss how we can offer more focused support in this area.

Duty of Care

A brilliant way to start understanding what is needed to support people in physical active and sport is to enrol for free on UK Coaching's Duty to Care Toolkit and Digital Badge platform.

This toolkit will equip you with the knowledge and skills to provide great delivery experiences to others, as well as support you to begin to better look after yourself as someone leading or supporting activity.

Safeguarding & Protecting Children - Safeguarding Adults

Our online Safeguarding & Protecting Children Workshop (delivered by UK Coaching) supports delivers to identify the foundations of safeguarding, good practice and child protection. Courses we have currently available will be listed below.

The Safeguarding Adults e learning module gives you the knowledge and confidence to safeguard adults at your sessions, including those identified as 'at risk'.

Mental Health Awareness

Enrol on the UK Coaching Mental Health Awareness for Sport and Physical Activity+ to gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to better understand and support people living with mental health problems, and create a positive environment that ensures they enjoy the benefits of being active and keep coming back for more.

Coaching the person in front of you

The Coaching the Person in Front of You webinar will support you to be truly person-centered, putting participants' feelings, thoughts, ambitions and motivations at the heart of everything you do.

If you are working to tackle inequalities and develop people more representative of your community, please make direct contact with Luke Green (Workforce Development Officer - l.green@active-together.org) to discuss how we can offer more focused support in this area.

Current Courses & Workshops Available:


Sharing Experiences

We believe the power of sharing experiences with unrepresented communities is vital to support everyone delivering physical activity and sport to become truly inclusive in their practise. Working with individuals and organisations across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland we have created opportunities for people to develop their understanding of how to tackle inequalities and support the following:

  • Ethnically Diverse Communities
  • People With Disabilities and Additional Needs
  • Women & Girls
  • LGBT
  • Older People and those living with long term health conditions

Whether you are an individual looking to develop your own practises or an organisation looking to engage with different communities local to you, please make contact directly with Luke Green (Workforce Development Officer) to discuss how you can access these opportunities.

Case Study: Stride with Pride

This case study outlines the Stride with Pride project undertaken during the 2021 summer period, which had the aim of encouraging more members of the LGBT+ community to engage in exercise. Have a read and get the thoughts and reflections of the project from Active Together Running and Walking Activator and Leicester's LGBT+ Funding and Development manager.


Support

We have a fantastic range of local and national providers delivering a wealth of training and development across a broad range of topics. This section highlights who those providers are and how to access training beyond local opportunities.

Additional Guidance

The following guidance is for anyone involved in the physical activity and sport sector, whether working professionally or in a volunteer capacity.

Here are some recommendations which can help structure your personal development:

Create a personal development plan (or review the one you currently have).

Invest time in reviewing your plan, assessing if it's still applicable and amending it to support you in the future. If creating a plan for the first time, think about the following:

  1. Consider the skills you already have.
  2. Identify the skills you think you need now and in the future.
  3. Work out what you want to achieve and how to achieve it. Ensure you can access the relevant training resources and that they are in a format that supports you.

Build the learning/ development opportunities into your weekly routine.
This will help with structuring your working week so that your development fits in well with your personal and professional life.

Explore ways to plan for the future.
Ask yourself 'how will I take this learning forward and implement it? What can I do differently in my role now this learning has taken place? How can I think creatively?'.

Connect with colleagues and friends.
Discuss your findings and new knowledge with others - it will help you embed your new skills and will no doubt help others too. This is also a great way to create opportunities to share best practice!

For more information please contact:

Luke Green

Luke Green

Development Manager

Active Together

I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.

My areas of responsibility are:

- Developing People
- Graduate Programme
- Blaby Link Officer

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