Our Impact

The Coach Core model ensures that apprentices, employers and the local community all benefit from the project and all for the long term!

Coach Core Foundation is a social mobility charity that aims to improve the life-chances of 16–24-year-olds across the UK who traditionally may experience barriers, discrimination, & lack of opportunities.

We’re on a journey to illustrate the impact of our programmes. With a complex network of partners and supporters, we are determined to showcase both the immediate and long-term effects we make on our apprentices whilst also highlighting the contributions they make in their local communities.

Annual Impact Report 2025

Our apprentices

The majority of our apprentices undertake the Level 2 Community Activator Coach apprenticeship, which serves as an entry-level qualification, at the same level as GCSEs. The most significant impact often arises from offering these initial opportunities to young individuals who have encountered numerous obstacles in accessing education and the job market. More recently, we have initiated progression pathways through the Level 3 Community Sport and Health Officer and Level 4 Associate Project Manager qualifications.

1,150+ apprentices have been supported by the programme

74% progress into confirmed employment, further education and additional training

85% say that working towards their apprenticeship has increased their confidence in the role

The community

We know that under-served populations, such as people with disabilities, women, people from ethnic minorities and people from low socio-economic groups benefit significantly less from the positive outcomes and active lifestyle brings. Coach Core actively recruits apprentices from these populations so they can be positive role models and use their insights to help engage these communities.

1.1 million people per year (on average) benefit from our apprentices being employed and delivering coaching sessions

43% of our apprentices reside in the top 30% most deprived areas in the UK

Our employers

Coach Core apprentices help professionalise assistant coach workforces and provide a new, diverse and exciting addition to the business. Employers can be professional club foundations, leisure providers, small charities/businesses, national governing bodies, local councils or schools and colleges. Partners collaborate and share in many ways to create strong, sustainable local Coach Core consortium that also benefit from the overarching, national network too.

230+ employers that we've worked with, all using sport/physical activity to make a difference