Step into Sport Volunteering Placements Wanted

Step into Sport is a national programme aiming to coordinate opportunities at a local level for young leaders 16-19 years of age to begin and sustain an involvement in sports leadership and volunteering.

Community Volunteering is when a young person, who has already undertaken some sports leadership within their school, undertakes a volunteer placement in a local sports club or other organisation within their local community. After completion of 50,100 or 200 hours of active volunteering they are awarded a nationally recognised Youth Sport Trust certificate.

Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (SASSOT) aims to encourage and support young people (16-19) to acquire the confidence, knowledge and skills to begin and continue an involvement in sports leadership, within the community.

SASSOT are currently working with local schools to recruit the latest group of students onto the programme, and we are looking to identify a number of suitable placements that will allow these young people to gain valuable experience of sports volunteering.

Young people on the Step into Sport programme can volunteer within areas such as:

• Sports Coaching
• Sports Refereeing & Officiating
• Running Sport (Helping to run a Club)
• Marketing & Promotion
• Events/Development Days

I have attached the following document, which you can complete or pass on to any club or organisation interested in offering a placement:

• A Step into Sport Statement of Interest Form – please complete this to provide further details of your organisation and the type(s) of placement you could offer

Please complete and return the Statement of Interest Form to the below email address by Friday 23^rd November 07.

For further information please contact:

Chris Turner
SASSOT Club & PESSCL Development Officer 
Tel: 01785 619681 
Email: cturner@staffordbc.gov.uk