Stoolball England is celebrating after being awarded £7590 of National Lottery funding from Sport England to develop a new coaching workforce.
The grant will allow Stoolball England to train eight new coaching tutors who will develop and promote stoolball to schools, clubs and the wider community across Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire and beyond.
Building a new coaching workforce will enable Stoolball England to offer coaching courses to stoolball clubs, schools, community groups and accreditation courses to sports and activity deliverers.
Kelvin Speirs, Stoolball England chairman says: “We are so pleased to have been awarded this funding. It’s taken a lot of time and effort to get this programme off the ground and now we call on all coaches and sports leaders to get on board to help take it forward. Stoolball is a unique sport with dedicated players and we can now celebrate that by building a professional coaching workforce. I’d also like to say thank you to everyone who plays the national lottery, we wouldn’t be able to do this without you!”
Please contact info@… for more details or to register interest in becoming a Stoolball England Coach.
Stoolball England’s 40th Annual General Meeting will be held in the Rawson Hall, The Street, Bolney, RH17 5PF on Sunday 24 November 2019 10.30 for 11am start.
Anyone interested in stoolball is invited to attend, although only affiliated leagues and associations are entitled to vote.
After the formal business, the following items will be open for discussion:-
Stoolball England are pleased to announce that we have been awarded £7590! of #NationalLottery funding to help initiate and activate our coaching programme that is well underway in development! Hopefully it won’t be too long till it’s finalised and rolled out.
Thanks to everyone who plays #NationalLottery we couldn’t do this without you!
A special mention to Anita Broad, our Vice-Chairman and Education and Research Officer, without her there would be no coaching programme or money to fund it, she is a super star and the world of stoolball is forever grateful.
Majority of parents have a positive relationship with their child’s coach
Over 90% of parents have high levels of trust in their child’s coach
UK Coaching, the lead agency for coaching in the UK, has released new research, which suggests that parental perceptions of coaching are overwhelmingly positive.
Over 1000 parents of children, who currently take part in coached sport and physical activity, were surveyed in the independent, nationally representative research, with 80% describing their coach-parent relationship as very or fairly positive. Additionally, 93% of respondents had very high levels of trust in their child’s coach and 98% never had any concerns, complains or problems.
The primary aim of the survey, which was conducted by YouGov on UK Coaching’s behalf in 2018, was to understand parents’ views of their child’s coach and coaching.
Familiarity has an important part to play in the coach-parent relationship, with results showing that 87% of parents who were on first name terms with their child’s coach, were more likely to report a positive relationship. This was also a factor in the amount of feedback parents received from coaches about their child, with those parents who said they ‘know the coach very well’ receiving frequent feedback.
When asked, ‘what they liked most about their child’s coach?’, the most popular responses were: ‘their child likes them’; ‘they are experienced and knowledgeable; ‘and they make sessions enjoyable’. However, the report also shows that two-thirds of parents did not undertake any relevant checks on their child’s coach, either because they did not think it was necessary, or because they expected the club/facility to do the relevant checks.
UK Coaching’s Director of Coaching Emma Atkins said:
“This research demonstrates how the coach-parent relationship is overwhelmingly positive.
“Great coaching is about people supporting people to be the best they can be. And we’re applying this to the coach-parent dynamic. As some of the statistics from this report suggest, communication between both parties is key – those who do more of it and get to know each other create positive perceptions of one another and this can only benefit the support and encouragement a child receives during their involvement in sport and physical activity.
“On the other hand, it is also important that parents are supported and empowered to know what questions to ask about their child’s coach and that coaches are educated to be able to include parents in the coaching experience. That’s why we support initiatives like the NSPCC’s Parents in Sport Week, and have partnered up with Working With Parents in Sport to celebrate the role both parents and coaches can play in ensuring their child has a great coaching experience.”
Working with Parents in Sport CEO Gordon MacLelland, said:
“It is pleasing to see how parents perceive their children’s coaches albeit from a small sample group.
“The coach-parent relationship is incredibly important, with both groups playing a key role in the achievements of young people. Continuing to work positively together will ensure the very best outcomes.”
Stoolball England are pleased to announce the Over 50s East and West of England Teams for this coming Sunday 28th.
The game will be held at Mynthurst CC (Charlwood’s home ground), RH6 0HR in Surrey and the game will commence at 2pm. Players are asked to arrive for 1pm for shirt collection and team photos.
Good luck to all players that have been selected and may the best team win!
It is now just six weeks to go to the Stoolball England matches at Ardingly College on Sunday 14 July. The Chairman’s Under-21 v President’s Under-21 starts at 10.30pm and the England Chairman’s XI v Stoolball England President’s XI match starts at 1pm. There is ample parking. We look forward to seeing you. Also, two weeks after that on Sunday 28 July, the England East Over-50 XI v England West Over-50 XI at Mynthurst Cricket Ground, near Charlwood.
Stoolball England will shortly put in an order for a supply of heavier bats, if anyone especially the mixed teams are in need of bats between 20oz. and 24 oz. (please state), then email info@…
