Sport & Sustainability Sports Development Officer
Youth Worker Training Series
We are collaborating with Cork Sports Partnership, Cork ETB and Kinsale OEC to offer a three-part training series to Youth Workers. This course will cover team building, camp craft and outdoor survival skills and water sports. The first session took place this month in Ballincollig Regional Park and was oversubscribed. Numbers where limited to 13 due to Covid-19 restrictions. Feedback from participants was extremely positive and there have been increased requests from Youth Workers to continue to expand the training series.
Travellers Visibility Group- 10,000 Step Challenge
We supported the Travellers Visibility Group in Cork to run a weeklong step challenge. It proved surprisingly popular, with over 60 people taking part. The fact that parents and children could all take part at once was noted as a huge benefit from participants who all shared the view that adult only classes are not always accessible to women in the travelling community who have childminding duties. This step challenge was so successful that there is a 15,000 step challenge due to take place in May.
Online Exercise Classes
Our online classes have been continuing with youth groups, schools, and community groups across the city. Feedback from participants has been excellent and we cannot wait to move some of these to ‘in person’ classes in May.
Youth Leader Coaching Programme
In April we launched two Youth Leader Coaching Programmes. These are in partnership with the FAI and Munster Rugby and offer young people an Assistant Coaching Placement on our Sports on the Green series this summer. There was a huge amount of interest in both of these courses and they are now both booked out.
Cork City Marathon The 2021 Virtual Cork Marathon is ongoing, culminating on the June Bank Holiday weekend. To date, there are over 1,000 entries, with participants from home and abroad running a marathon, half marathon or team relay individually, compliant with COVID restrictions. The Sanctuary Runners have launched a campaign to get 1,000 participants to run under their banner and already have participants from San Francisco, Shanghai, Cologne, Rennes, Boston, Coventry, New York and Swansea running under their banner. In May, we will launch a Youth Marathon Challenge for schools, youth organisations, clubs and families, in association with the Cork Sports Partnership.
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