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Personal Best Programme - volunteer opportunities

Personal Best is a pre-employment programme that utilises the inspiration of the opportunity to volunteer at 2012 to engage and lift the aspirations of economically inactive people back into the labour market. Over the next 22months 40 programmes of the Personal Best Award in Pre-event volunteering are planned across the LSC North West Region.

 

Sport 4 Life requires support:

 

  1. To recruit and engage participants to the programme
  2. Provision of community sports venues to host the delivery of the programme.
  3. To provide volunteer placements at sports events

 

The Personal Best Award is a 120 hour accredited programme of learning accredited by City and Guilds, NOCN and Active IQ. 30 hours will be spent volunteering at sports events. In the North West this will be delivered by reputable FE colleges and training agencies in community based venues.

 

The units in the programme consist of:

 

  • Becoming a Volunteer
  • Volunteering and the Olympics
  • Emergency and Basic Fire Awareness
  • Public Safety Awareness
  • Understanding Effective Customer Relations
  • Understanding Equality and Diversity
  • Introduction to Conflict Resolution in a Public Environment
  • Developing Team and Interpersonal Skills
  • Preparing for and Reflecting on a Volunteer Placement.

 

Learners who successfully complete the programme will be guaranteed a Games Time Interview for 2012 if they apply.

 

Eligibility criteria:

 

1. 16-19 and Not in Employment Education or training (NEET)

2. Economically inactive people 20 +

 

The target is for 43% of learners to be NEET. There some minimum requirements for Skills for Life and ESOL. Learners will not be refused places of they do not meet programme requirements simply signposted to other provision and offered places at a later date.

 

Personal Best is not just a programme of learning, it is a programme of support and engagement that will continue way beyond the life of the programme.

 

For more information contact Jill Rothwell jrothwell@mysport4life..co.uk 0845 1300849