Learning Opportunities

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 following opportunities, created by local and national partners, are in place to support our people to create safe, inclusive and enjoyable environments for communities and individuals.

Emergency First Aid

Emergency First Aid training is essential for individuals and organisations delivering physical and sporting activity. Trained individuals create safe environments for people to participate in and provide the first level of emergency care if accidents or injuries occur. Go Learn Leicestershire provide a calendar of first aid training course opportunities across the area.

Unconscious Bias

We need to raise greater awareness that we all have biases, it is part of being human and was an important element in protecting us back in prehistoric times.

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.

The UK Coaching: An Introduction to Unconscious Bias for Sport and Physical Activity online classrooms aim to support participants

notice examples of unconscious bias in others
consider their own biases, and how these can distort their judgement about the people who come to your sessions
learn strategies to help them become more conscious of your biases so that you can reduce their influence
examine the common types of unconscious bias: affinity bias, confirmation bias and group think.

Duty of Care

A brilliant way to start understanding what is needed to support people in physical activity and sport is to enroll 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

UK Coaching's Safeguarding & Protecting Children Workshop supports individuals to identify the foundations of safeguarding, good practice and child protection. A full online course calendar can be found by clicking here

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.

Sharing Experiences

We believe in the power of sharing experiences with others, only then can we develop truly accessible and equitable physical activity opportunities for all. 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 different communities including:

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

Whether you are an individual looking to develop your own practices or an organisation wanting to engage with different communities local to you, please contact Development Manager Luke Green 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.

Stride with Pride

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.

Physical Activity for Health Training

Training opportunities for health care practitioners to access physical activity training.
Active Together Insight Hub

Providing a platform to make it easier to find the information you need to create change in your local area. Including the Data and Statistics portal, Research and Evidence portal and the Tools and Resources portal.
UK Coaching

UK Coaching has a wealth of online resources and courses to help you to get ready for the future in your coaching and club experiences.
Buddle

Your place to experience the wonders of community sport and physical activity.
The CIMSPA Academy

CIMPSA membership gives you access to hundreds of online CPD courses. CPD on offer ranges from quick ebriefings to certificate courses.
Sport Structures

Sport Structures are a large national training organisation, providing education and training in a variety of sports.
HM Government: The Skills Toolkit

You can find free, high quality digital and numeracy courses in The Skills Toolkit put together by experts.
Digital Growth

Small/Medium enterprises in Leicester or Leicestershire can access digital focussed seminars and workshops - including many tailored specifically to the current climate.
Go Learn

In response to Covid-19 and lockdown restrictions GoLearn has created NEW online learning resources for adults across Leicestershire to access for FREE.
The Open University

OpenLearn gives you access to materials and expert opinion on topical issues including Sport, Health and Education.
Play Their Way Digital Toolkit

Join the movement, Build the movement, Be the movement Play Their Way digital assets designed to support sector partners in their child-first coaching journey

For more information please contact:

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
- Place based support for Leicester City
- Supporting ethnically diverse communities

Favourite Quote/Motto - "You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be." Freddy Mercury

Favourite Sporting Moment Watching the 1997 British and Irish Lions win the test series against South Africa who were the current world champions at the time. It was great to sit with my old man watching the home nations come together to achieve something amazing.