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Blantyre Victoria YFC is the youth and adult section of Blantyre Victoria FC and are the youth pathway into Blantyre Victoria FC senior team. We provide a place for young people who share an interest in football to come along and join in. We are looking for someone to help with funding applications and also help plan, co-ordinate and oversee fundraising activities.

Blantyre Victoria YFC is the youth and adult section of Blantyre Victoria FC and are the youth pathway into Blantyre Victoria FC senior team. We provide a place for young people who share an interest in football to come along and join in. We are looking for someone to help with all forms of social media. To help raise awareness and the profile of the club of all the hard work taking place on and off the pitch. You do not need to be an expert in social media but have a keen interest in how this type of platform can help communicate with a wider audience.

You will get to meet the inspirational faces of community groups across the UK and immerse yourself in their work; use your existing skills in a rewarding fashion whilst developing new ones; guide members to become more inclusive; network with other like-minded individuals helping grassroots sports groups survive; and so much more. Our volunteers say that making a positive difference to our members is what they most enjoy about volunteering at Sported. You'll use your professional skills and lived experience to help groups overcome operational challenges, become better equipped for the future, and tackle inequality in sport. Most of our roles are quite flexible and work around your schedule. We do our best to only share opportunities we think are relevant to you. With most of our volunteering support being delivered digitally, it’s even easier to get started supporting members across our network.

Fife Steel Basketball Club (FSBC) are looking for enthusiastic basketball Coach Support volunteers to help with the delivery of basketball for players during practice, including the delivery of basic basketball skills to players at a high level, including supporting team sportsmanship, encouraging players enjoyment in the sport. To be successful as a Coach Support, you should have an awareness of basketball and have good communication skills. Ideally a Coach Support should be physically active and have good leadership skills. FSBC are looking for Coach Supports who can enthuse players of various ages through different evening training sessions during the week, and/or who can run “After School or Lunch Time” sessions with the support from other Coaches. FSBC delivers sessions to a wide group of abilities & ages from 7-76 year olds, for all genders. Training sessions start with the Under 10’s through to Fife Steel Men who compete a local and regional level.

Volunteers are required to carry out 10-minute whale and dolphin (cetacean) watches from designated sites along the Scottish coastline. Volunteers will be trained up to identify common cetacean species found in Scottish waters, use specialised watching equipment and record presence and absence sightings data. Their current survey locations in Orkney are Hoxa Head, the Gloup, Ness bunker (Stromness), Broch of Gurness and Yesnaby

ANGUSalive has a large junior coach programme, delivering gymnastics, trampoline, multi sports, basketball, climbing and netball. You will work alongside a qualified coach. There is a varied programme across the 7 ANGUSalive centres, we operate Monday to Friday after school and weekends, the programme varies from town to town. • Gymnastics are delivered in Arbroath, Carnoustie, Kirriemuir and Montrose • Trampoline is delivered in Arbroath and Carnoustie • Multi Sports are delivered in Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie and Forfar • Basketball is delivered in Carnoustie and Forfar • Climbing is delivered in Brechin • Netball is delivered in Forfar and Montrose Suggested activities: • Assisting the coach to deliver the class • Learn how to plan a session What will the volunteer gain: • The opportunity to gain knowledge and understanding of the junior programme • The opportunity to develop communication skills

ANGUSalive has a large Learn to Swim programme for people aged 6 months to 80+ years old, with more than 2,500 swimmers registered across 7 facilities. You will work alongside a qualified swimming teacher: • Assisting the swim teacher to deliver the class • Learn how to plan a swim lesson • Learn how to use tablets for registers and recording criteria • Learn how to assess competencies What will volunteers gain: • The opportunity to gain knowledge and understanding of the learn to swim programme • The opportunity to develop communication skills • The chance to undertake an SSTQ course (the course can be paid upfront, worked back, or a combination of the two)

As the trainee football development assistant, you would be responsible for supporting the “Football Development Assistant” with the planning, development, and delivery of our successful “Football Development Pathway”. Suggested activities: Suggested Activities: • Pathway timetable planning and monitoring • Coach recruitment, development, and retention • Club and coach communication • Equipment inventory and management • Festival planning and delivery • Player development What volunteers gain: • Gain experience of working in a sport and leisure environment • Gain experience of developing and delivering customer focussed football activity programmes • Understand current trends in physical activity, and equipment and facility development • Develop skills delivering to various client groups within a football setting.

As a Sports Advisor you will be the friendly and enthusiastic public face of ANGUSalive. With a passion for excellent customer service you will provide a high standard of customer care, maintaining a professional, well presented and welcoming environment. Suggested activities: • Assisting with equipment set up/take down • Learn to carry out gym inductions • Customer care and service • Maintenance and day to day operations • Cleaning • Learn the role of the lifeguard Volunteers will gain insight to the role of the Sports Advisor and the task undertaken to provide excellent customer service in a busy sports environment. Increase of health and safety including life guarding. Work experience will help with any future recruitment opportunities with the sports and leisure industry.

ANGUSalive has a an ever growing membership base across our 7 facilities. The membership offering consists of world wide fitness classes created by Les Mills, Kettlebells, Yoga, aqua and much more. Access to swimming, health suites and racket sports our membership has everything. You would work with our Adult & Memberships Lead into reviewing and monitoring our membership sales, process and assisting on reporting weekly figures along with helping create new promotions. Suggested activities: • Monitor membership sales over all 7 sites via our membership tracker • Download weekly membership reports and update spreadsheet • Creation of membership promotions • Help create social media content to promote memberships and membership campaigns • Assist with membership sales and facility tours What volunteers will gain: • The opportunity to develop their knowledge and experience in membership sales and retention and the sales process • Experience of monitoring and evaluating sales and cancellations • Opportunity to gain an understanding in why we sell memberships and the processes behind • Knowledge into creation of campaigns and promotions