Sports coach education

Would you like to develop your sporting skills and become a qualified coach?

Are you interested in sports coaching or currently involved with sports activities?

Newham Council can offer you the chance to gain nationally recognised coaching qualifications at subsidised rates.

What is the Sports Coach Education programme?

The Sports Coach Education programme offers coaching courses in a wide range of sports at a variety of qualification levels. They provide pathways into employment and suitably qualified coaches can apply to become session coaches with the London Borough of Newham.

What courses are available?

For a full list of available courses and details of the entry requirements, please see the Coach Education Booklet.

For more details, including the terms and conditions of this offer, please contact Alison Mitchell on 020 3373 7661 or email alison.mitchell@newham.gov.uk

Newham's Volunteers Sports Programme

The Newham volunteers team have introduced a new area into their programme to increase, identify and develop volunteer participation within the sports club network in Newham. It focuses not only on offering fantastic opportunities to registered Newham volunteers to gain free coach education training, but also offers assistance to help gain coaching experience and furthering their skills in a number of different areas.

This sports volunteer programme endeavours to improve, enhance and develop sports clubs in Newham by recruiting and placing suitable volunteers into their clubs to carry out a number of important and significant roles. Role descriptions do not only focus on coaching, but also other roles such as marketing officer, health and safety officer, team managers, volunteer co-ordinators, umpires, officiators, inclusion officers and many more. We also assist with developing sports committees in order to manage these roles.

Criteria to access free coach education training:

• you must be a Newham resident and have proof of address
• you must be a registered Newham volunteer
• you must have been on the volunteer programme for a minimum of one year
• you must have attended at least five Newham events as a volunteer
• you must attend the training if successful on this programme or you will not have any further access to free training in the future
• after completion of the course you must volunteer 20 hours of your chosen sport as a coach in a sports club in Newham
• you must submit these volunteer hours once completed, to the sports volunteer coordinator.