Recruit into Coaching

Recruit into Coaching aims to recruit and train 10,000 volunteer coaches and put them to work in 70 of the most deprived areas of England by 2011.

• 5680 of the coaches will be delivered through the network of school sport partnerships in school settings
• 4320 will be delivered through the network of county sports partnerships) in community settings.

Recruit into Coaching has been developed and is being implemented jointly by Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust  with support from sports coach UK and Skills Active on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). 

Launched in 2007, by the then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, James Purnell. It is part of the coaching workstrand of the PESSYP as it is strongly linked to the School Sport Coaching Programme.

The 70 areas were selected using the 70 highest ranked local authorities based on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation.