Hosting the Olympics in London should greatly help the profile of amateur sport in the United Kingdom.
One new initiative:
… The surveys seek to develop understanding about our coaching workforce in the following areas:
· whether more coaches are needed,
· where coaches are needed (e.g. in what clubs, level, disciplines),
· whether the coaches need further development,
· what kind of development opportunities they need,
· how these development opportunities can be provided by British Gymnastics of the Home NationsThis work will help maximise the effectiveness of the forthcoming UK Wide Vision for the Gymnastics Coaching System to 2016 and will also contribute to sports coach UK’s multi-sport coaching workforce plans which will help to secure government investment in sports coaching.
As an added incentive for completing the survey, one year’s free coaching membership to British Gymnastics will be provided as follows: one free coaching membership each for Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the English Regions, to be allocated randomly from those responding to the coach or club surveys in each respective Home Nation/English Region. …
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