First Aid in Sport
Date: Monday 18th June 2012
Venue: Reading Football Club, Madejski Stadium, Reading, Berkshire RG2 0FL
Time: 6.20 - 9.30pm
Cost: £25 for Clubmark clubs & £30 for non Clubmark clubs
Booking: http://www.oxfordshiresport.org/courses.asp?section=881§ionTitle=Workshop+Finder&itemid=160
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Target Audience
This 3 hour workshop is for anyone involved in the delivery of sport who wishes to learn basic First Aid.
Workshop Summary
This workshop will provide you with knowledge of how to assess an incident, and what to do next. There are practical demonstrations of resuscitation and other techniques to deal with injuries such as sprains and strains. The workshop is tailored to meet the needs of the group but some areas covered will include:
• Action at an Emergency
• Primary Assessment
• Secondary Assessment
• Breathing and Circulation
• Principles of Resuscitation
• Airway Obstruction
• Disorders of Circulation
• Bleeding
Outcomes
To have the basic knowledge and practical skills to deal with First Aid requirements of colleagues and other people in the workplace / club environment.
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance from an HSE approved provider at the end of the workshop.
If you a working towards a coaching qualification please consult with your National Governing Body of Sport to ensure this workshop is suitable
To register your interest in attending a First Aid in Sport Course please contact justine.mosley@berkscsp.co.uk
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Safeguarding & Protecting Children
Title: Safeguarding & Protecting Children
Date: Monday 16th July 2012
Venue: Reading Football Club, Madejski Stadium, Reading, Berkshire RG2 0FL
Time: 6.20 - 9.30pmCost: £25 for Clubmark clubs & £30 for non Clubmark clubs
Booking: http://www.oxfordshiresport.org/courses.asp?section=881§ionTitle=Workshop+Finder&itemid=161
Target Audience
Essential for all coaches and volunteers at your club who have regular contact with children and young people. The workshop is a Minimum Operating Standard requirement for many governing bodies of sport, it can be delivered to all those responsible for organising children’s sport (e.g. within governing bodies of sport, local authorities, sports and leisure centres, sports clubs) and those who lead or deliver children’s sport programmes (e.g. coaches, leaders, instructors, development officials, administrators, volunteers, parents).
Workshop Summary
This workshop aims to increase awareness of safeguarding and protecting children, helping coaches to recognise signs of abuse and poor practice, and deal sensitively and effectively with issues that arise. It also prompts a review of coaching practice to ensure that sport provides a positive and enriching experience for children.
Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
• Identify and recognise good coaching practice and the implications for them
• Explore their values and feelings in relation to child abuse, and recognise how these may potentially impact on their response
• Recognise and respond to the signs and symptoms of child abuse and poor practice
• Take appropriate action if concerns about a child arise.
To register your interest in attending a Safeguarding & Protecting Children please contact Justine Mosley at justine.mosley@berkscsp.co.uk
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Club For All
This course is designed to be attended by volunteers in a club. The tutor will use club management and administration examples to help the volunteer/club member understand the benefits of opening up their club to the wider community and being equitable in their membership and club practices. The workshop will assist them in producing a basic action plan for their club, with a view to future sustainability.
This course is a requirement for all clubs who wish to attain Clubmark status.
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- describe sports equity and its values
- list the benefits of sports equity for their sports club or organisation
- identify equitable and inequitable practice
- identify key equity challenges for their sports club or organisation
- identify the steps they may need to take in their own club or organisation to start a basic action plan for equity
- identify the organisations that can help them and provide further guidance on sports equity.
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Coaching Disabled Athletes
Develop your own coaching knowledge and skills to coach disabled players through inclusive and separate coaching sessions.
Discover new ways to adapt equipment and identify appropriate safety and medical considerations to meet your players' needs.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
explain when integration and segregation might be most appropriate
identify appropriate safety and medical considerations
review and extend your knowledge of how to adapt your coaching to the specific needs of disabled performers
design and monitor a programme for a disabled player taking part in their sport
direct players to appropriate structures for competition and further coaching.
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Equity In Your Coaching
By the end of this workshop coaches should be able to:
- Explain what sports equity means and why it is important
- Identify barriers to participation
- Use appropriate language and terminology
- Identify and challenge inequitable behaviour
- Interpret the legal framework that effects coaching
- Identify how they can become more equitable
- Establish where to go for further information
Everyone should have access to sport, regardless of gender, age, race, ability, faith, or sexual orientation. As a coach, you have an important role to play in ensuring this happens. The workshop will help you to apply and extend your existing skills to meet the needs of present and potential participants.
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Valuing Your Sports Volunteers
The newly updated 'Valuing Your Sports Volunteers' workshop will help your club make the most of your key asset – your people.
It still helps you to recruit more volunteers, motivate, retain, reward and manage them even more effectively. But now the workshop includes more detail and guidance on volunteer planning and management. In particular you will look at:
- how many volunteers you actually need
- what you want your volunteers to do
- how you are going to recruit and retain volunteers
By participating in this workshop, you will be able to:
- effectively plan volunteer recruitment, retention, reward and recognition
- identify what your club should do to work with young volunteers, and the type of roles they can undertake
- help build a network of support for volunteers in your club
- gain commitment for ongoing volunteer development
- recognise the importance of volunteers in English Sport