Volunteering

When you 'volunteer', you 'volunteer as something'. There is no such thing really as a simple volunteer. Your sports leadership training clearly equips you to continue volunteering as a Sports Leader just as you did in training. However, it also equips you to volunteer in a number of other roles. You may not always find people asking for Sports Leaders volunteers either. You will however, see organisations asking for holiday playscheme leaders, youth club assistants, activity helpers and so on - all of which need the skills that you have as a Sports Leader.

Multi-sports clubs and associations, or sport specific clubs such as cricket, tennis or football clubs operate across the UK at local level and often welcome offers of help. As a Sports Leader you can assist in organising teams, helping in training sessions by running warm up sessions, helping with the cool down at the close of sessions, and you may even wish to extend your own leadership skills by learning how to coach under a more qualified sports coach. There are dozens of sports and many have their own National Governing Body and many of these are organised on a national, regional and local levels.