5 highlights from Year 1 of Project 500 Inspiring women to be recruited, developed, deployed and/or retained in coaching. "Excellent coaches, every time, for everyone" Project 500 is a new campaign to address the imbalance in the number of male to female coaches, creating a more diverse workforce to drive the growth of female participation in sport. Devised by Sport Hampshire & IOW (SHIOW), alongside Oxfordshire Sport Partnership, Bucks and MK Sport, Get Berkshire Active, Active Surrey, Active Sussex, and Kent Sport and Physical Activity Service, Project 500 will see a combined five hundred female coaches recruited, developed and deployed across the seven South East counties between April 2013 and March 2015.

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Women make up…
more than half the population
25-30% coach workforce
18% of qualified coaches.

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Coaches Supported
Against an overall target of 500
female coaches, 264 coaches
have been supported in Year 1
across 37 different sports.
53%

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by each County Sports Partnership
46
15
37
39
3261
35
Coaches Supported

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Of 96 unqualified coaches, 25%
are now Level 1 or Level 2 qualified
24
coaches have
become
qualified
25
coaches have
advanced
Of 34 qualified coaches, 74% have
moved from Level 1 to Level 2
Qualification

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On average 24.6 adults (over 25) and
16.2 11-25 year olds are coached per week
Players Coached

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confidence
technique
knowledge
interpersonal
relate
engage
adapt
set goals
0
2
4
6
8
10
The culture of support has helped coaches develop.
Self rating has shown improvement in all eight areas.
Start
End of Year 1
Coach Development

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Highlights from
“An evaluation of the first year of Project 500”
prepared by the
Research Team at
sports coach UK
June 2014.
To read the full report, visit
sportscoachuk.org/news/project-500-first-year-report
Full report

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facebook.com/Project500uk