Enhancing Higher Level Sport Volunteering & Coaching Skills

HEFCE has provided funding to the North West Universities Association to enable a collective North West Higher Education Institution contribution to the regional sport and coaching skills legacy of the 2012 Games. The project, which will employ a cross-institutional approach to demand-led volunteering and coaching provision and placements,  commenced on 1st July 2008, for twelve months in the first instance; there will be two complementary elements to the project:

• A research exercise to ascertain the viability of developing and delivering demand-led higher level skills provision to meet the regional sport volunteering and coaching needs associated with the 2012 Games and other major regional events.
  
• Development of an HE database with the aim of maximising the co-ordination and utilisation of Higher Education student volunteers and coaching placements across the regional sport community, enhancing the skills and employability of North West graduates.

As part of the phase 1 of the project, NWUA in association with British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) have produced an audit of sport volunteering and coaching across North West HEIs.

The copyrighted report can be downloaded here.

For further information contact:

Sue Quick
Finance and Projects Manager
North West Universities Association
4th Floor, Albert House
17 Bloom Street
Manchester
M1 3HZ

Telephone: 0161 234 8887
Email: squick@nwua.ac.uk