This document discusses youth work and sport organizations as an untapped workforce for delivering sport and physical activity opportunities. It identifies that youth workers from organizations like Boys and Girls Clubs, Scouts, and youth clubs could support strategies to engage more young people in sport. Additionally, it presents a case study of Active Community Enterprise (ACE), a partnership that engages university students as a workforce to support community sport clubs and programs. ACE demonstrates that students can be an untapped resource for volunteering in sport delivery if opportunities are built into their courses and training is provided. The document argues that youth organizations and universities could contribute more to increasing sport participation if aware of strategies and opportunities to get involved.

1. Welcome
‘Sport’s Untapped Workforce’

2. Grant Poiner
Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Wales

3. Youth work is underpinned by the
following characteristics:
• The voluntary involvement by young people who
have chosen to engage in the process
• Being age specific. Focused on 11-25 year olds
• A non-formal education approach
• Being driven by a young-people-first approach
• A universal approach
(From, WAG, Young People, Youth Work, Youth Service, National Youth
Service Strategy for Wales, 2007.)

4. Who are the ‘untapped workforce’ of
youth workers?
• Local Authority Youth
• Young Farmers Clubs
Workers
• Urdd Gobaith Cymru
• Boys and Girls Club
Leaders • Youth Events Wales
• Scout leaders • Red Cross
• Duke of Edinburgh’s • St Johns
Award • YMCA
• Guides leaders

5. The ‘government agendas’ that
link to youth work
• Employability (including NEETS)
• Health
• Participation
• Citizenship
• Culture
• Arts
• Sport

6. Are youth organisations aware of:-
‘Every Child Hooked on Sport for Life’
If not, how can we make them
aware?

7. Can youth organisations contribute to the sport agenda?
Can youth organisations contribute to the collection of data?
Can youth organisations use sport to further demonstrate the
effectiveness of their work?
Are youth workers an untapped workforce that could be
used?

8. Gethin Smart
Project Manager, ACE

9. Active Community Enterprise - ACE
“Promoting opportunities for sport and
physical activity by engaging local
communities in the development of
enterprising sports clubs”

10. Active Community Enterprise - ACE
• What does ACE stand for?
• Active Community Enterprise
• Rationale behind the creation of ACE?
• Supporting Sport Wales community sport strategy
• Engagement with adults (The local community)
• Student population = Captive audience
• History?
• Partnership between University of Glamorgan and RCT
(SportRCT)
• Students from the employability module

11. Active Community Enterprise - ACE
• The workforce of ACE?
• Operations Manager: Gethin Smart
• Workforce Officer: Vicki Upson (3rd year)
• Business Administrator: Dan Bradley (3rd year)
• Marketing and Communication: Matt Stock (3rd year)
• Community Officer: Luke Canton (3rd year)
• Participation Officer: Gareth Brown (2nd year)

12. Active Community Enterprise - ACE
• The background to our volunteer workforce?
• Students:
• The untapped resource
• Sign up volunteers from the student population
• Deployment of students
• Built into students courses
• UKCC coaching courses

13. Active Community Enterprise - ACE
• Questions to ask?
• Discussion topics:
• Where is your local HE/FE educational facility?
• Could you tap into this workforce?
• Could you access the ACE programme?
• Where can we share this resource?
• How can we improve on this resource?

14. Active Community Enterprise - ACE
How to contact ACE? Website:
http://glamace.weebly.com/
Ace Office
Email:
Sports Pavilion
activecommunityenterprise@gm
University of Glamorgan Sports Park ail.com
Main Avenue
Trefforest Industrial Estate Twitter:
Pontypridd
@Glam_ACE
CF37 5UP

15. Jane Clemence
Cardiff City Council

16. ‘Sport’s Untapped Workforce’