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!

Our apprentices

Coach Core allows our apprentices access to a number of skills, experiences and qualifications including a recognisable Level 2 apprenticeship and a minimum of one Level 2 coaching qualification too. But, you don't need lots of previous skills to join Coach Core, over half our learners do not have their Maths/English GCSEs when they join.

87% success rate with apprentices moving into full time education/employment after Coach Core

900+ apprentices have completed the programme since 2012

Coach Core apprentice leads training session for children in playground

100% of apprentices say that the Coach Core apprenticeship has helped their career

The community

All Coach Core programmes are targeted to give opportunity and provision to the communities that need it most around the UK. The locations that we focus on through Coach Core result in more relatable, inspiring role models developing and giving back to their own communities over 12-18 months.

30,000 apprentice led coaching sessions per year, on average

670,000 people per per year (on average) benefit from our apprentices leading sessions

34% of our apprentices come from the top 20% UK areas of multiple deprivation

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, local councils or even schools/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.

150+ employers across the UK, all using sport/physical activity to make a difference

Covid-19 Impact Report

Prior to the global pandemic we were collecting monthly reports that kept us sighted on the progress of our apprentices and the health of our programmes. When Covid-19 hit, however, all that went out the window as employers, apprentices and partners were put on furlough. To understand just how much impact Covid-19 was having, and what we could do to support...