By integrating our training into your institution’s academic and extracurricular offer, you can enhance student retention, boost overall wellbeing, and facilitate significant personal growth among participants.
Our training equips participants with the essential skills and knowledge necessary to gain a deeper understanding of their target audience, develop innovative and creative solutions, and effectively measure the impact of their initiatives.
The workshops provide an excellent opportunity for students to enrich their understanding of the increasingly competitive ‘Sport for Development’ sector.
Our targeted training interventions empower students and staff in Further and Higher Education to make a difference. From grassroots campus initiatives to building a positive community footprint, we equip your College or University with the tools to create lasting social change.
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Our Top Five Suggested Courses for Colleges and Universities
StreetGames Multi Skills Activator
This workshop provides participants with a multi-skill approach to coaching young people in their local community. The workshop will provide a chance to experience games across a range of sporting categories and learners will combine their existing coaching and leadership skills and experience with the games, adaptations and top tips within the workshop to engage young people in multi-sports. We also offer this workshop with a focus on a specific sport – see below “Sport Specific Activator Workshops” for more information.
StreetGames Activator Essentials
Our Activator Essentials workshop is popular with Colleges and Universities looking to upskill their student workforce in methods of effective ‘on campus Activation’. We will discuss the principles of activation and what skills and qualities make a good activator. It aims to provide participants with a toolkit of ways to adapt, modify and engage participants meaningfully with a range of different ice-breakers, energisers, team builders and small sided games.
Understanding Behaviour That May Challenge
The workshop explores how sport can be used as an engagement tool to address social exclusion, anti-social behaviour and community tension and build stronger communities. Participants learn the characteristics of ‘hard to reach’ young people and how to effectively engage with them. They are shown how to recognise the causes and triggers of anti-social behaviour and they explore the development of tools and skills that enable young people to take ownership of their issues and effectively understand behaviour that may challenge.
Planning and Managing Events
Our Planning and Managing Events workshop provides students with a framework to organise and manage community sports events. We discuss the importance of recognising participants’ needs as well as the pre-event, on-the-day and post-event tasks. We also discuss guidance on the promotion and marketing of events and how to create, share and realise your vision.
Engaging Women and Girls
This workshop explains the sporting needs of young women and girls, and defines the techniques for delivering successful sports programmes for young women. We identify the motivations, barriers and solutions to engagement and explore how to design and deliver what women want. The workshop covers what works to both engage and retain female participants and includes case studies from projects that are successfully engaging females.
Sport Specific Activator Workshops
Activator Workshops provide an informal introduction to a new sport or activity and enable participants to facilitate activities within a community setting.
These workshops enable learners to lead modified versions of the sport or activity in a variety of settings, and with minimal equipment. There is a focus on fun and adaptation, rather than technical ability. Drawing on the principles of teaching games for understanding, they provide numerous activities to enable interaction with young people and understand their motivations.
Developed in partnership with National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs) these workshops:
- Support young volunteers’ journey into sports leadership & coaching
- Provide new games & challenges to keep experienced youth, sport & community workers’ offer fresh
- Prepare Further & Higher Education students for work in community settings
Go Further, Go Higher in action
StreetGames were delighted to support BUCS with the delivery of our Football Workshop, which formed part of their Football Activators Day. Around 70 young people attended sessions in Leeds and Reading with the aim of learning new skills to deliver sessions both at their university and in their local community.
Testimonials
Our work with StreetGames this year has had an extremely positive impact on our learners' employability, the sessions are highly practical and develop delivery skills in a wide range of sports. It has been brilliant to see young coaches work with a range of tutors who have shared their extensive knowledge and expertise.
Warren Aplin, Curriculum Area Manager (Sport, Protective Services, Travel & Tourism), Yeovil College
StreetGames have delivered a range of qualifications designed to meet the needs of our students and complement their course of study. Their courses have a focus on inclusion and physical and mental wellbeing. Our students gain knowledge of safe, ethical coaching and improve their communication.
Amanda Sowerby, Physical Activity & Sport Coordinator, Barnsley College
The Multi Skills Activator course was extremely impactful for our students! The course was fun, engaging and very supportive. It was perfect for our students as it directly linked in with their modules, and it was great to see students using the skills/knowledge they gained during the course to complete practical assessments.
Keshia Hilton, FDSC Physical Education and Sports Coaching Programme Leader, Newcastle College
Our apprentices have received fantastic training from StreetGames. Each group's needs are taken into consideration while designing the workshops, and participants have consistently provided positive feedback. The leads have always been encouraging and offer first-rate service.
Sunny Chavda, Sport Work Related Learning Coordinator & School Sport Coach, Loughborough College
The StreetGames Multi-Skills Course was absolutely brilliant! The staff delivering the course were engaging, knowledgeable, and exceptionally organised. Student feedback included: ‘We learned so much in such a short time,’ ‘We were active the whole time,’ and ‘It was great to learn in a practical way and gain a recognised qualification.’
Jenna Dunsford, Hereford Sixth Form College
StreetGames Activator Essentials training has been a huge hit. The training sessions are always engaging and the students have gained insightful knowledge to help them in their roles. The StreetGames team are really helpful from start of bookings right through to delivery of the sessions.
Jade Woodward, Active Programme Manager, Warwick SportWorking in partnership
At StreetGames, we are proud to have been able to work with a number of Further and Higher Education collaborators during the 2024/25 Academic Year. We would like to express our thanks to the following Colleges and Universities for the opportunity for StreetGames to collaborate in partnership.
Manchester Metropolitan University
- Planning and Managing Events
- Dodgeball Activator
- Parks Activator
- ACEs and Trauma Informed Practice
- Understanding Behaviour That May Challenge
- Boxing Activator
Liverpool John Moores University
- Handball Activator
- Boxing Activator
- Dance Activator
- Badminton Activator
- Netball Activator
- Volleyball Activator
University of Birmingham
- Understanding Young People from Underserved Communities
- Understanding Behaviour That May Challenge
- Activator Essentials
Barnsley College
- Multi Skills Activators
- Understanding Behaviour That May Challenge
- Planning and Managing Events
Loughborough College
- Multi Skills Activators
- Understanding Behaviour That May Challenge
- Engaging Women and Girls
Newcastle College
- Multi Skills Activators
Contact us
For more details and for your College/University to ‘Go Further’ and ‘Go Higher’ with StreetGames please get in touch with:
Nikita Nolan
UK Customer Relationships Manager
