Our Services
Collaborative solutions: Empowering you and the coaching workforce with tailored products, services and assessments
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We have a deep understanding of coaching skills and behaviours and how to develop these across a wide range of sport and physical activity environments.
We help those that deliver learning to support everyone in the coaching community. We have an outstanding reputation, evidenced through the loyalty of our trusted partners.
A Partner-First Approach
We pride ourselves in adopting a partner-first approach, meaning we:
- Unlock potential together through tailored coaching solutions for lasting success.
- Support you with expert consultancy and coaching solutions.
- Demonstrate value by working in partnership.
It makes me feel confident that the products we access via UK Coaching provide our coaches with the best-in-class opportunities, helping us to achieve our vision of world-leading opportunities for our workforce.
Katie Richards Head of Learning Design and Research at British Gymnastics
Our Products
The coaching landscape is constantly evolving. To support coach learning and development, we provide generic coach learning and content that can be tailored to various sports, activities, environments, and populations.
Our Coach Learning Programme is designed to improve coaching quality, help coaches find jobs, and change the way coaching is done, all to get more people active. It helps learners connect what they know with real-life coaching and guides them in understanding themselves as coaches, connecting with different people, and focusing on each person they coach.
This programme offers long-term benefits, pushing learners out of their comfort zones where real growth happens.
You can implement the Coach Learning Programme through two distinct methods:
With a Licence: Partners with their own proficient team of tutors can internally train their tutors for programme delivery, offering a more economical pricing structure as they handle tutor remuneration. Tutors will participate in an onboarding session to acquaint themselves with the programme content.
Without a Licence: For partners without their own tutor workforce, UK Coaching provides its own team of experts to guide learners through the programme, either in a physical or online setting.
The Coach Learning Programme was a brand-new programme that we worked through over the last year. It allowed learners to work at their own pace but also anywhere, on any device, so made it convenient.
Darren Smith Founder and Director of Coaching XChange
We talked to Coaching XChange students about how they benefited from the Coach Learning Programme in our video case study below.
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Developed with subject matter experts, our eLearning allows learners to access training at their convenience. Our content is accurate, up-to-date, and built for high learning transfer and comprehension. Courses include key compliance topics like Safeguarding and Protecting Children and Young People, Concussion Awareness, and Mental Health Awareness.
Our eLearning solutions have been successfully implemented, as demonstrated in our work with organisations such as Boccia.
The Intro to Boccia eLearning has been able to strengthen our infrastructure work as it is the first step into learning more about our sport. We hope that from this elearning it will provide people with a pathway to access our
courses.
Stacey Reed, Boccia People Development Manager Boccia People, Development Manager
Uniting the coaching workforce across sport and physical activity, the UK Coaching Club provides access to a network of like-minded connections, courses, and resources while offering exclusive benefits, discounts, and events.
Premium membership includes:
- 12 months of access to a membership
- Free and discounted membership benefits
- Free and discounted CPD Learning
- Access to the ConnectedCoaches online Community
- Exclusive learning content
- Access to a comprehensive counselling helpline
- Free and discounted legal help
- Access to CIMSPA-recognised learning, allowing coaches to regularly accumulate CPD points and keep track through a personalised dashboard
We are constantly looking to evolve our continuing development offer for coaches and volunteers and UK Coaching has a wealth of resources and expertise that we know will have a positive impact on the delivery of cycling activity.
Simon Hibbert Head of Education, British Cycling
From our safeguarding suite covering young volunteers, children's and adults coaches and welfare to coaching children, we offer various workshops that can be delivered by you or UK Coaching, contextualised to meet specific requirements. Workshops can be run online or face-to-face, and you can become licensed providers to save costs.
We worked with UK Coaching to create a bespoke workshop programme of coach education for our veteran cohort. The planning of this was brilliant and we put together an in depth but easily accessed programme.
Ryan Hunt Community Sport Development Manager, Help for Heroes
Our Services
UK Coaching designs, develops, and hosts custom learning products tailored to your organisation's needs. We have collaborated with the coaching sector to maximise resources and enhance the quality of learning and development.
Our expertise in learning allows us to combine your needs with the latest insights and modern practices, delivering impactful learning solutions.
We support you with:
- Planning, designing, developing, implementing, and launching bespoke learning products.
- End-to-end product design and development, bringing your vision to life.
- Understanding and meeting the needs of your audience and the coaching sector.
- Providing learning design, creative services, video and media production, hosting support, and high-intelligence reporting.
- Raising the profile of your work by cascading your message to the coaching workforce.
UK Coaching collaborated with CP Sport to design, develop, and host an eLearning module, "An Introduction to Cerebral Palsy in Sport and Physical Activity." The goal was to boost confidence among those leading sport and physical activity to include individuals with cerebral palsy.
From the first meeting to the launch of the training, UK Coaching understood our goals and valued our expertise. Their supportive, transparent, and calm guidance throughout the design and production process resulted in a training course with a person-centred tone that exceeded our expectations.
Brendon Tonks CEO, CP Sport
Our team of graphic designers, animators, and editors offer comprehensive solutions to meet all your creative needs. We excel in bringing sport and physical activity resources, announcements, and analysis to life through a variety of channels. Whether it's traditional visual media—such as images, infographics, and booklets—or cutting-edge digital formats like animations, video editing, and interactive products, we have the expertise to deliver.
Our services include:
- Learning Design and Development: Creating engaging and effective educational content.
- Video and Media Production: Producing high-quality videos and media assets.
- Graphic Design and Marketing Materials: Crafting visually appealing and impactful designs.
Tailored to your organisational objectives, our digital and creative solutions can be customised to match your needs.
Bringing the Sport England Coaching Blueprint to Life
Sport England enlisted the expertise of UK Coaching's creative team to breathe life into their coaching blueprint.
Our collaboration encompassed editorial work, video creation, development of a digital resource, and graphic design.
We have worked closely with UK Coaching's Creative Services team on a significant number of projects. From the outset they took the time to understand our needs – and that has helped them deliver high-quality projects sometimes against exceptionally tight timescales.
Martyn Kiel ECB Learning Design and Foundation Phase Lead
We offer a range of digital solutions designed to meet your unique needs and enhance your operational efficiency.
Our digital services include:
Co-Brand Dashboard and Reporting: Customisable partner-branded webpages within the UK Coaching website, offering guided learning journeys.
Options include:
- Standard Reporting: Activity summaries, popular content, eLearning and workshop summaries, survey results, discount code usage, and anonymised EEDI survey data.
- Advanced Reporting: Includes all standard features plus detailed user tracking.
- Custom Reporting: Tailored reports for specific hosted products.
Hosting: We can host, promote, and distribute your eLearning on our platform, reaching over 200,000 registered learners.
Options include:
- Hosting exclusive or public learning content.
- Built and designed by our experts, yourself, or a third party.
- Managed administration and marketing support.
- Real-time tracking of purchases, usage, and completion rates.
Partner Platform: A dedicated, branded platform for administering and managing learning experiences.
Features include:
- Fully branded to your guidelines.
- Customisable learner registration and sign-up.
- Flexible functionality for a seamless learning journey.
- Options for webinars, virtual classrooms, events, workshops, eLearning, and assessments.
All our digital solutions are customisable, allowing you to create a bespoke setup that aligns perfectly with your organisational goals and enhances your ability to deliver high-quality coaching.
We are delighted to be working with UK Coaching on the Active Skills learning platform. This is a fantastic resource that will help empower individuals with knowledge and skills to support them in any role.
Laura Spurr Skills Manager at Active Lincolnshire
Our Assessment Services
1st4sport develops and awards industry-recognised qualifications and assessments that support the sport, physical activity, health, and leisure sectors. As a trusted awarding organisation, we work closely with our partners to ensure our qualifications meet industry standards, enhance workforce development, and drive excellence across the sector.
Our assessment offerings, through 1st4sport empower you to enhance the skills of your workforce and elevate their employment opportunities.
Our assessment offerings include:
Qualifications: Choose from a vast selection of high-quality vocational qualifications tailored for schools, colleges, independent training providers, and in partnership with National Governing Bodies. These qualifications empower learners across various sports and activities, enabling them to excel in their chosen fields.
End-Point Assessment (EPA): Partner with us for specialist End-Point Assessment services, providing a final, independent assessment of apprentices. Our EPA ensures that partners have confidence in the abilities of apprentices to perform in their trained occupations. We offer EPA services for various standards, including Level 2 Equine Groom, Level 3 Senior Equine Groom, Level 3 Outdoor Activity Instructor, and more.
Endorsement: Recognising that regulated qualifications may not always meet your requirements, we offer the 1st4sport Endorsement Service. This service provides formal recognition for bespoke learning solutions, ensuring they meet specific criteria for quality and credibility within the sport and physical activity sector. Gain certification of attendance or achievement for your bespoke learning solutions through the 1st4sport Endorsement Service.
1st4sport partnered with Sports Connect – a registered 1st4sport Approved Centre – to help empower the next generation of sports coaches.
The Introduction of the Level 1 Activator qualification has been a game-changer and an integral part of our community offer. It aligns perfectly with the company's vision and values of developing and inspired, educated, and motivated workforce.
Simon Hodge Director, Sports Connect