A Leeds-based charity that supports and trains sport and physical activity coaches across the UK, formerly known as Sports Coach UK.
UK Coaching is a charity for the people who coach sport and physical activity. Its vision is to build a healthier and happier nation through great coaching, and its stated purpose in the 2022-23 annual report is to be here for the coach by supporting all coaches to be great. It runs courses and events, publishes resources and research, and operates a membership, the UK Coaching Club, that gives coaches insurance, helplines and discounts. It also sets standards with partners and leads the Children's Coaching Collaborative, a group of 17 organisations working on children's participation in activity.
The charity is registered as the National Coaching Foundation, trading as UK Coaching, with charity number 327354. Its mission, on its website, is to act as a trusted partner that gives coaches access to the best learning and development products and services. Its values in the annual report are We Collaborate, We Coach, We Care and We Champion Innovation. Its Coach Learning Framework was developed over nine months with more than 80 experts. In 2022-23 its main campaign priorities included a campaign called Play Their Way. The pages we read did not cover its early history or its earlier name, Sports Coach UK.
The principal office is at 2 City Walk in Leeds. UK Coaching works with more than 500 organisations around the country, including national governing bodies of sport, and it says it represents around three million coaches. Its work is funded mainly by grants from Sport England and UK Sport, and it has a trading subsidiary, UK Coaching Solutions Limited, which pays its profits back to the charity. The pages we read do not say how its teams are arranged.
On culture, the annual report puts weight on equality, diversity and inclusion, on good governance and on reducing its environmental footprint, and its website says it aims for a workforce that represents the population. The 2023 accounts give an average full-time-equivalent headcount of about 83 for the group, but those figures were unclear in our source. Its chief executive, Mark Gannon, has said that coaches will be an important way of engaging a broader range of people in activity. A Board of non-executive directors sets strategy, and a Coaching Advisory Panel gives guidance. These are the charity's own descriptions.
A charity that trains coaches needs a mix of people: learning designers and trainers, researchers and insight analysts, membership and customer-service staff, partnership managers who work with sports bodies, digital and web teams, marketing and communications, finance and governance. If you enjoy teaching, sport, research or helping a movement grow rather than coaching on the pitch yourself, there are roles of that kind here. Its website is the place to check for current vacancies.
Website: www.ukcoaching.org
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