Hi BD, Over the past year it has been part of my role to arrange and deliver UKU coaching courses. At every course, and in general, we collect and receive feedback about our delivery, organisation, etc. One of the reoccurring pieces of feedback we receive about the coaching courses is that they often [seem to] get announced with a relativity tight time scale, between announcing and delivery.
So, in response to that feedback, I am endeavouring the arrange a 2012 coaching calendar. Before I continue, I feel that I must also add in this extra bit of information. We have a coaching newsletter on the UKU website. This is the first place we announce courses, opportunities and news before we use public mailing lists such as BritDisc or UniUltimate. This can be a few weeks in advance! So if you have an interest in UKU coaching stuff, including announcements about our up-and-coming level two scheme, then sign up to that mailing list! The subscription button is located towards the bottom of the left-hand navigation column. http://www.ukultimate.com/coaching The 2012 Calendar. Part of the problems we face with arranging coaching courses so far in advance is how busy the UK Ultimate calendar is. Often opportunities are only presented to us when clubs/teams/universities realise that "there is a free weekend next month! Let’s see if we can get a UKU Coaching Course in there." For the most part, this has actually been an OK way of working. Publishing a 2012 calendar shouldn’t take away from this approach. If you or your club/team/university ever does find that you are in one of those situations where you do have a free day in your busy calendars, and do want to host a UKU coaching course, then please continue to contact us with those requests! Using the coaching link above, there is plenty of information there on how to consider if you can host one of the courses. Please contact us via email [email protected] or by leaving a message on my office voicemail 0151 324 0929. We need your help. We need help in identifying where we can host courses in 2012. I have included a rough list of target areas and dates at the bottom of this email. This is not exhaustive. It is just a rough targeting list based on where we have delivered in the past and how much time has lapsed between the list date and previous delivery. The help I need is for people to aid in the organisation of these courses by using local knowledge, or access to affordable and suitable venues. Such as, some people may find they get free use of lecture rooms at their university and/or discounted bookings on sports hall for coaching courses. The cheaper the venue overheads are, the more often we can pass on savings to participants. So please get in touch via email or phone if you can help with the list below. Or you represent a collective of players that want a course on your doorstep and your location isn't on this list! The second way that members can help the UKU is by word of mouth! It doesn't matter how many emails go to BD, UU or the coaching mailing lists, there is always going to be a proportion of UK players that won't find this information as easily as those who are reading this email. Hopefully a published list of courses for 2012 will help this, but there is still always a need for people to announce courses at training sessions, pickup games, winter league, the pub or whatever! Please help us, by talking about it! See the list in full: http://ultimateliam.tumblr.com/ 2012 January - Bristol February - Chester March - London April - Nottingham / Leicester / East Midlands May - Southampton June - London July - Is this month too busy to host a course? August - Is this month too busy to host a course? September - London October - Is this month too busy for student Ultimate? November - Wolverhampton / Birmingham / West Midlands December - London Thanks for your time reading, I realise my emails are often very long! Sincerely, Liam Kelly UK Ultimate, Coaching & Development office. 0151 324 0929 twitter. Ultimate_Liam skype. liam.kelly29 -- UK Ultimate Tel: 0844 8045949 Email: [email protected] UK Ultimate, 27 Old Gloucester Road, LONDON WC1N 3AX __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
