Badminton England FE Offer

Badminton England
FE Offer
Supporting your aims & objectives through badminton
Student
enrichment
Leadership &
employability
Equipment &
resources
Engaging
programmes
What is the FE Offer?
The programme aim is to increase once a week participation through recreational
badminton opportunities in FE & retain students in the badminton pathway
Badminton England provide resources and support worth up to £400 free of charge:
PlayBadminton framework, a menu of products designed to attract a different segments
Equipment package
License to deliver the FE Young Leaders award in house
Library of resources, templates and case studies
Optional enrichment opportunity for a student leader
The College agrees to targets, based on delivery of weekly casual badminton
opportunities, increasing & retaining participants, developing leaders and data return
Benefits of a national partnership with Badminton England
Innovative and forward thinking organisation, with a large and growing reach
5th most popular sport for 16-25s with over 132,500 playing weekly
Upward trend in weekly participation figures
Communication routes via 1700 affiliated badminton clubs
Partnerships with over 500 local leisure facilities
Network of 22 regional staff supporting community development links
Partnerships with over 60 Universities
Opportunity to deliver the National Lottery award nominated SmashUp! programme
Leadership & employability:
Over two-fifths (44%) of students participating in sport strongly agreed/agreed that
sport had helped them to develop employability skills*
43% strongly agreed or agreed that doing so “helps them with their college work”*
UCAS recommends ‘Employment or volunteering’ to be included in applications**
*Active Colleges student survey 2014
**www.ucas.com April 2015
What we offer:
License to deliver the Badminton England Young leaders award
Includes a dedicated FE workshop with a practical delivery element
Tutor notes for staff to deliver in-house & online Moodle tutor resource
‘Recruitment pack’ resource for a student badminton leader role
Additional training opportunities for paid community delivery
Engaging programmes
Options that appeal to a range of student
segments
•Variety sustains participation in
uncommitted student segments
•Offers something different from tradition
Whilst the activity may be sport,
the message does not need to be
•Appeals to non-sporty segments
•Relaxed student led activity
•Fits with student lifestyle and
trends
What we offer:
Access to the ‘PlayBadminton’ products
Case studies, templates & support designed
to reach specific student segments
Dedicated ‘Moodle’ resource page
Equipment & resources:
What we offer:
 A racket bag full of
equipment
 Access to the
‘Moodle’ Resource
bank to help support
colleges overcome
common barriers
 Innovative case
studies
Badminton is the ideal vehicle for
offering enrichment & promoting
wellbeing
•Relaxed & social
• Team or individual
•Can be non-competitive
•Easy for beginners to get started
Get in touch:
www.badmintonengland.co.uk/furthereducation
Sandy Kurek: Project Manager -FE
sandykurek@badmintonengland.co.uk
01908 268437