Interested in further funding, training or development? Look no further! We want to ensure you, our locally trusted organisations, are kept in the loop with the latest funding opportunities and wider training and development courses available, to help enhance your skills, as well as families and young people across the county, so take a look below!
Following on from the HAF onboarding sessions at Easter, many of you expressed that you will be looking to recruit over the summer period. Check out our Essex Sector Job Opportunities page, where you can upload any of your job opportunities for many people to view and apply!
Make your pledge today, to play an important role in contributing to increasing children's positive attitudes towards physical activity. By signing up, you will gain access to the Advocate Portal!
To celebrate the Paris Olympics and Paralympic Games in 2024, we are encouraging all HAF clubs to join the virtual journey of Path to Paris, Team GB and Paralympics GB’s free programme for children aged 5 to 11 and their families. Path to Paris is Team GB and Paralympics GB’s free programme. Teachers, or youth and community group leaders can create a team for their class or group, then young people get active and log their activity online to power their team around the world to reach Paris in time for the Games.
As you virtually travel the distance around the world learning more about the Olympic and Paralympic Games, sports and athletes you’ll be in with a chance to win loads of amazing prizes along the way.
Partner Hub Path to Paris info: https://www.activeessex.org/resources-and-delivery-support/
Path to Paris Website: https://www.getset.co.uk/pathtoparis
Please can you support your participants to complete this survey to show us their participation in Physical Activity. We will ask you to do this again during the summer to see any development in their physical activity levels.
Children survey: Omnisis Warp (warpsurveys.com)
Path to Paris want to invite them to take part in some online research tasks for which we are offering £100 to families who are chosen to take part. They can express their interest in taking part by completing the info in this form and a researcher will be in touch: https://forms.office.com/e/f6Aq7u2pmG
As you may be aware we have worked with CIMSPA (The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity) over the past couple of years to support our sector here in Essex, Southend & Thurrock which has seen us launch the People, Culture, Skills (PCS) Framework.
We are delighted to continue this partnership and introduce you to Lisa Wright, who has been recently recruited by CIMSPA as the local Skills Hub Manager. Lisa will be working alongside Active Essex to build upon PCS and the Sport & Physical Activity Skills Accountability Board here in Essex. The Board aims to bring together employers, education providers, and employability-focused organisations to effectively and efficiently match supply and demand in the sports and physical activity sector through local skills action plans.
The goal is to ensure the sector can deliver health, economic, and social benefits to our nation by:
With Lisa in post, we are able to ensure the local Skills Accountability Board here in Essex feeds into their work nationally alongside Sport England and will bring significant data and insight through CIMSPA’s newly formed Skills Diagnostics. This insight will ensure your needs are fed into our local skills plan which the Board will be responsible for. Over the coming weeks Lisa will be looking to engage with as many employers in the sector as possible to gain insight into your needs around skills gaps.
You can complete the Skills Diagnostics here; Workforce Skills Diagnostic (QR code attached). The person completing it will need to know the skills and recruitment requirements for your organisation so please do forward on to the most appropriate person.
The bank Chase are offering 2,900 fully-funded introductory coaching qualifications and 85 professional coaching bursaries that’ll help more people learn valuable skills for both on and off the pitch. Not everyone has the same opportunities when it comes to developing life skills that can help secure a job, or support career growth.
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