Sports Leaders UK Hosts Scottish Parliament Event

Essentially Dance & Indoor Rowing

Two new leadership courses will be available from 2010. The Essentially Dance Leadership course, in partnership with Essentially Dance, and the Indoor Rowing Leaders Award, in partnership with Concept2 Rowing.

Foundation Funding Leads Community Drive

The Sports Leaders UK Foundation has been awarded £100,000 by the Garfield Weston Foundation, which will go towards establishing a further 100 Sports Leaders UK Outreach Centres, and assist in the running of a number of partnership based community projects.

QCDA Offer Free Diploma Training

QCDA is currently running free training events for exams office staff who are delivering the Diploma for the first time.

New Qualifications and Credit Framework

The new Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) will replace the current NQF on 1 January 2010. Sports Leaders UK will be moving all of their qualifications onto the QCF next year.

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Due to regular demands from delegates on Tutor Training, the training team have been busy designing a toolkit that allows tutors to have access to re-usable activity cards for ten of the most popular activities used on training. Order yours today!

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Sports Leaders UK Hosts Scottish Parliament Event

Sports Leaders UK held an event at The Scottish Parliament on Wednesday 27^th January to demonstrate the importance of its work and partners in Scotland. The event, hosted by Andy Kerr SMP, showcased the amazing achievements of Sports Leaders in Scotland and highlighted the pledge made by Sports Leaders UK to the Commonwealth Games Legacy.

Sports Leaders UK Unveils 2012 Games Legacy

Sports Leaders UK announced its 2012 legacy and recognised inspirational young leaders at a special awards ceremony at the House of Lords recently. The event, held on December 7, also saw the announcement of Sports Leaders UK's recent partnership with Change4Life, the Government's programme to encourage a healthier, active lifestyle.

Loire Valley Cycle Challenge

Linda Plowright, Chief Executive of Sports Leaders UK, and Carolyn Cant, QA Manager took part in the Extra Mile Challenge cycle relay through France on the 25, 26, 27 September, to raise money for a number of charities including Sports Leaders UK.

Helping Future Leaders Of Major Sports

Four major British sports looked to Sports Leaders UK to help deliver leadership training for 200 young people at the Young Leaders Camp 2009 in Rugby School this month.

Palace Launch For Sports Leaders UK Foundation

On Wednesday 8th July 2009, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, hosted a private luncheon at Buckingham Palace to officially launch the new Sports Leaders UK Foundation.

Olympians Lead Young Sports Leaders

Four Olympic athletes led two hundred young people from all over Britain at the first Sports Leaders UK National Convention at the MK Dons stadium on Saturday 4th July.

Sports Leaders UK Hosts Scottish Parliament Event

sports leader laura pollock Sports Leaders UK held an event at The Scottish Parliament on Wednesday 27^th January to demonstrate the importance of its work and partners in Scotland. The event, hosted by Andy Kerr SMP, showcased the amazing achievements of Sports Leaders in Scotland and highlighted the pledge made by Sports Leaders UK to the Commonwealth Games Legacy.

Linda Plowright, CEO at Sports Leaders UK, said: "The Scottish Government's commitment to the legacy of the Games is extremely well thought through, and the Games' aspirations are strongly matched with our own.

We hope to make a major contribution by strengthening our infrastructure of tutors, training centres and active Sports Leaders throughout Scotland. Where there is a Sports Leader there is an opportunity to get active and engage in more active healthy lifestyles - whether indoors, outdoors, in sport or in dance there is something our Sports Leaders can engage everyone in."

As part of the Sports Leaders UK pledge, Linda also announced Sports Leaders UK's mission to deliver over 22,500 new Sports Leaders by the 2014 Games, who will have provided over 117,500 hours of physical activity sessions.

Speakers at the event included Andy Kerr MSP, Margaret Peggie OBE - Chair of Sports Leaders UK, Shona Robison MSP - Minister for Public Health and Sport, Stewart Harris - CEO of sportscotland, Sports Leaders UK's CEO Linda Plowright, and Sports Leader Laura Pollok.

"Sports Leaders UK is a truly UK organisation - we haven taken our responsibilities in Scotland seriously and have benefitted enormously from the generosity of funders to establish dedicated staff in Scotland, for Scotland," said Margaret Peggie OBE, Chair of Sports Leaders UK.

With so much adverse media attention particularly upon young people, Sports Leaders UK feels it is important to celebrate and recognise the work of its Sports Leaders. In 2009 Volunteer Recognition Awards were introduced to recognise the work of those who made a significant contribution through volunteering their sports leadership skills. Nominations were made from each of the Sports Leaders UK Outreach Centres. Adele Clarke from Glasgow was a UK finalist, presented at a House of Lords event in December. It is proper however to celebrate her achievement in her home country of Scotland.