Berkshire Sport Courses
Berkshire Sport offers a range of courses for coaches, clubs and volunteers. These courses run throughout the year.
Berkshire Sport can organise and deliver a course for you at your club. If there is a course your club or local coaches need then let us know and we can arrange a course to suit your requirements.
A calendar of workshops can be found HERE .
To book a workshop please click HERE
First Aid Courses
Our 4-hour first aid course is run by St. John’s Ambulance and is called Emergency Life Support – All Age. This course deals with serious conditions and incidents. It is ideal if you want to know what to do when faced with an emergency involving a casualty of any age.
Safeguarding & Protecting Children Courses
By the end of this workshop coaches should be able to:
- Identify coaching practice and sport situations that might constitute poor practice and/or abuse
- Recognise key principles of code of conduct and their application to good coaching practice
- Recognise truths and myths surrounding child abuse
- Identify ways of dealing with their own feelings about child abuse
- Describe what constitutes abuse and identify the indicators
- Recognise signs and symptoms
- Identify appropriate action if a child discloses he/she has been abused
- Identify appropriate action if concerned about the behaviour of another coach or colleague
- Identify appropriate action if concerned about the behaviour of a parent/carer (ie outside of the sports arena)
- Review practice that reduces the likelihood of wrongful allegations and of abuse occurring
Protect yourself, the young people you are coaching and your employer by understanding and following good coaching practice. Learn about child abuse and how to handle situations if you have concerns.
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.
Coaching Disabled Persons Courses
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.
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.