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During a typical KEEN London session, you’ll provide one-to-one support to an athlete, helping them to access all the activities on offer, achieve their personal development goals, and of course have tons of fun! You can expect to get involved with a wide range of playground games, ball games, nature walks, and creative activities. From time to time we also run trips for our athletes, and previous trips have included trampoline parks, high ropes courses, pedalo boating and slime-making classes. Our Volunteer Coaches are the backbone of a KEEN London session! If you’re available between 10:00 and 14:30 on Saturdays please come and join us. What we expect from our Volunteers: We don’t expect any prior experience for this role - just lots of energy, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn! A commitment to attending 2 sessions per month, for at least 6 months. This is to ensure a level of consistency for our athletes and so that you can gain the experience needed to support our athletes effectively. Completion of our application process. After submitting your application, we’ll invite you to attend a training session and complete a DBS check. Help our athletes access the activities and games at our sessions. You’ll support our athletes to engage with the session, and have fun while they’re doing it. Support athletes to achieve their goals. You’ll help our Service Coordinators develop goals for our athletes, track their progress, and give them lots of encouragement along the way. Work as a team to develop creative ways of engaging with the athletes. You’ll work together to come up with new games, develop resources, and plan activities. Get moving. We want our athletes to enjoy being active, making friends, and trying new things - and we want you to join in with them! Have fun! Our athletes love working with energetic and enthusiastic people, and we’ll ensure that all your hard work will be rewarded with a great time. What you’ll get in return: You’ll make a difference to the lives of our athletes, see their progress and have fun along the way! Regular volunteer social events, and opportunities to meet other coaches Ongoing training! We’ll ensure you feel comfortable in your role and are fully trained. Development of skills such as working with children, teamwork and communication Long-term volunteers receive t-shirts, badges, and advance sign-ups to our popular events Reimbursement of reasonable travel expenses. References after a reasonable time of volunteering Access to free Charity Worker Discounts after 5 completed sessions.
Volunteers do not need any specialist skills or experience working with children, but will need lots of enthusiasm and energy, as well as good communication and team-working abilities.
We offer full training and support to our volunteers, with opportunities to attend extension training in areas such as Autism Awareness, Makaton and Behaviour Management. The sessions are also an excellent way to develop skills such as communication, teamwork and problem-solving, and to develop an understanding of working with children and disability. We offer regular social events for volunteers and recognise our long term volunteers with t-shirts and badges, as well as advance sign-ups for popular events.
We ask for a minimum attendance of 2 Saturdays a month, 10:00-14:30. But you are welcome to attend as many sessions as you like! We operate our services during school term time only.
