Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in your Sport
Healthy Mind & Healthy Body
Governance & Safety for Sport
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Our Courses
Accelerate Sport’s mission is to offer relevant, important and engaging training opportunities to everyone in sport.
Our sport training courses are tailored to the needs of the sports industry and created in partnership with the very best experts, who excel in their field.
Each course is also backed up with a range of resources, webinars and social area to ensure every learner has the opportunity to digest and consider their learning in a supportive environment.
Take a look at the available sport training courses below to see which ones fit into your organisation’s Professional Development Plan.
Equality & Diversity
The Challenging Sexism in Sport eLearning course will address the different ways that sexism can present itself and look at some practical steps you can take to help tackle racism in your sport.
This course is designed to empower you to feel confident in reaching and engaging with players who are deaf and hard of hearing, by understanding their experiences and the barriers they face.
This course is designed to address menstrual health in the world of sports. Sadly, it is often a taboo topic, and many athletes face significant challenges managing their periods while competing or training. Together we can change this.
Learn how you can ensure that your sport / club is doing all it can to make it a welcoming place for girls. This course will give you realistic steps that will help you engage with teenage girls.
We want this course to help people understand the challenges faced on a daily basis by many coaches, athletes and sports personne, from different backgrounds, and also how these can be overcome.
This course will give your sport/ club realistic steps to take to engage with all your local communities. It'll consider what barriers might exist and then advise on how you and others can overcome these. You'll be given practical ideas on steps you can take to make your sport/club more inclusive.
This course is most suited to coaches, players and volunteers and is a shorter version of the 'Tackling Racism' course - it has a focus on how to challenge racism in a safe way.
Perfect for equality/safeguarding leads and anyone in your organisation that has responsibility for EDI, this, in-depth course will help sports and clubs take realistic steps to fight racism and discrimination wherever it appears, be in on the pitch, court or in the stands.
This course will help your sport/club ensure it is a welcoming place for LGBTQ+ individuals and ensure all your workforce are aware of issues around terminology and behaviour.
The Digital Accessibility eLearning course will consider the diverse abilities of members within your organisation and understand how to create accessible create digital content for your website, training materials, manuals and more.
The Digital Accessibility course is classified as quickfire. A shorter-than-usual course designed to be completed quicker than other courses.
Healthy Mind & Healthy Body
The course will enable you to understand more about how negative mental health affects young people, in a different way to adults. Â It'll build empathy amongst your workforce towards your young members and simplify neuroscience theories, helping you to help your young players deal with issues.
From the negative effects of Social Media to dealing with the aftermath of the pandemic, there's been a real spike in anxiety levels amongst young people recently. This course will teach you how to detect heightened levels of Anxiety in your young players along with the best ways of helping them deal with this in a positive way.
Authored by two former clinical psychologists, this course will look at the practical steps coaches can take to build resilience in their younger players, in a safe and empathetic way.
Eating disorders are becoming more and more of an issues across the sports industry. The course will enable you to spot the symptoms of a range eating disorders, understand the barriers to getting help and gain practical information about what you can do to help your workforce.
Created in partnership with Dr Richard Allison, you’ll take a deep dive into nutrition to improve performance in sport.
The aim of the Injury Prevention in Sport course is to develop an understanding of why injuries happen, and the tools you need to help prevent them. This course is classified as quickfire, a shorter-than-usual course designed to be completed quicker than other courses.
Governance
Created in collaboration with Sport and Recreation Alliance. This course will help you understand the steps you can take to improve the governance structure within your club/sport.
By enrolling on this quickfire course, you will understand how to implement a development strategy within your club, to ensure it grows to be successful on and off the pitch.
Learn how to better recruit your volunteers, support them through training and keep them. Find out about the benefits of micro volunteering and how to create volunteer strategies.
Learn how to better recruit your volunteers, support them through training and keep them. Find out about the benefits of micro volunteering and how to create volunteer strategies.
By offering insight into the fast-changing professional media landscape, the course will help you understand how to communicate effectively with the media to promote your club/sport
An introduction to First Aid for you and your workforce. Learn about what you should have in your first aid bag and the best way to deal with common ailments.
This eLearning course will raise your awareness of the tell-tale signs of abuse, and give you the tools and confidence you need to deal with any issues sensitively, appropriately and effectively should the need ever arise in your coaching career.