Educational and Community Outreach

Cambridge Sport Lakes Trust is committed to Educational and Community outreach.

Sports programmes in each of the featured sports at Cambridge Sport Lakes will be integral elements of activities at the lakes. We will provide quality facilities and a safe environment where these sports can be developed further in conjunction with registered clubs and school satellite clubs.

We are currently offering sporting opportunities in local schools and in local clubs through a programme of educational and community outreach. It is our aim to create better access to non-traditional sport and to development pathways for the community, in order to encourage a healthy and active lifestyle.

Community Sport Coach Scheme

Cambridge Sport Lakes Trust is committed to the Community Sport Coach scheme, as we believe that Community Sport Coaches are instrumental in developing links between local schools and clubs and offer a unique chance to create more opportunities for young people to participate in Sport.

Providing equipment, training and education to enable young people to participate safely and enjoyably in sports is a key objective of the Trust.

Our Community Sport Coaches work in local schools and with local sports clubs to offer children in the community the opportunity to become involved in non traditional sports that would not otherwise be available to them in the school setting.

Sport England Community Sport Coach Scheme The headline objective for the Community Sports Coach Scheme is to establish 3,000 paid, qualified Community Sports Coaches working at local level to increase the number and range of coaching opportunities according to strategic and local need by 2006.  It is intended that the scheme will result in quality continuous professional development support for employed coaches and·high-quality coaching with a focus on young people.The development of a pool of high-quality Community Sports Coaches will not only contribute to enhancing the quality of existing activity but also provide the opportunity to generate substantial new activity over time. For further information on the Community Sport Coach Scheme please visit: www.sportengland.org/index/get_resources/coaching.htm

 

Cambridge Sport Lakes Schools Triathlon Programme

Cambridge Sport Lakes Schools Triathlon Programme is funded in part by grants from Sport England and Cambridge Triathlon Club.

The Programme is delivered by our three qualified Triathlon coaches, Don Hutchinson, Helen Eggar and Dawn Green. All of whom are also enthusiastic and experienced Triathletes.

In the past year we were able to offer Triathlon to children in 9 local schools, giving 1,500 children the chance to get involved in Triathlon. This year the programme has continued to grow, enabling us to offer the project to a further 2 schools.

The programme currently runs in the following schools: Bottisham Village College Comberton Village College Cottenham Village College Chesterton Community College Fawcett Primary School Great and Little Shelford Primary School Histon & Impington Junior School Melbourn Village College Milton Primary School Netherhall School Sawston Village College

As part of the Triathlon programme Don Hutchinson and Helen Eggar also work with Cambridge Triathlon Club, delivering junior sessions and encouraging the continuing development of juniors in the Club setting. As a result of the enthusiasm in the schools programme Cambridge Triathlon Club is seeing a positive increase in junior membership.

In addition to the schools and club programme we also run a number of Triathlon courses both for beginners and more experienced Triathletes, during the school holidays. These take the form of either 1 day taster courses, or week long courses designed to introduce children to the sport and develop their new skills in this multi-disciplinary sport.

For information on future Cambridge Sport Lakes Triathlon Courses please see the news and events page or contact us.

 

Cambridge Sport Lakes Rowing Programme

Cambridge Sport Lakes Rowing Programme is funded in part by grants from Sport England and Rob Roy Boat Club.

The programme aims to develop school-club links, increasing accessibility to young people and providing a high quality introduction to a Sport for which Cambridge is so well known.

Our qualified Community Rowing Coaches work in 3 Cambridge schools delivering a programme of indoor rowing tuition and land based training in after school clubs during the Autumn and Winter terms, with water based training to follow in the Spring and Summer terms.

Coaches also work with Rob Roy Boat Club delivering their junior beginners programme and encouraging the new athletes’ development within the club.

In addition to the schools and club programme we also run a number of rowing courses, both for beginners and the more experienced. 4 day Junior courses for Beginners and Improvers run during the Easter school holidays and 1 week courses run during the Summer holidays. Over the summer we also offer 4 week (1.5 hours, 1 evening a week) Women’s courses for Beginners or Improvers.

For information on future Cambridge Sport Lakes Rowing Courses, please see the News and events page or contact us.