Coachmakers | Coachmakers specialise in the delivery of sport, education, apprenticeships and work-based learning

Why Coachmakers?

We specialise in the delivery of sport, education, apprenticeships and work-based learning for the sport, active leisure, health and well-being sector.

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Community Sport Projects

We work with a range of partners and manage, support and deliver a range of community sport activities.

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Coachmakers specialise in the delivery of sport, education, apprenticeships and work-based learning for the sport, active leisure, health and well-being sector.

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Programme of Study

Are your 16-24 yrs old? Sign up to a Programme of Learning with Coachmakers and find out you can combine study, work experience and fun practical learning as a route to employment.

Intermediate Apprenticeship

Earn as you learn with a Level 2 Intermediate Apprenticeship at Coachmakers and build a career in sports coaching, activity leaderships or fitness instructing.

Coachmakers works with a range of employers across the South West and offers Advanced Apprenticeships (Level 3) for young people aged 16 – 24 looking to get into personal training and multi-sports coaching.

“If it wasn’t for Coachmakers, I wouldn’t be going to uni”

Previously, Sam Cotton was working as an electrician’s apprentice and “hated every minute of it”. Discovering Coachmakers put him on the path towards his dream of becoming an elite football coach.

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Hundreds of young people have made a career in sport thanks to Coachmakers

Hundreds of young people have made a career in sport thanks to Coachmakers. Our courses give you all the skills, qualifications and support you need to become a sports coach or physical trainer – or go on to university to earn a sport-related degree. All...

Teenage kicks: how sport is repairing the damage of sectarian conflict

Sport has the capacity to break deeply-ingrained behaviour patterns and mindsets, to engage even the most complex individuals and to bring about positive change to entire communities. Few places need sport's unique powers more than Derry/Londonderry. The...

Blog: How ‘PAGs’ are making a real difference

In the first of a series of regular blogs, NASDC Chair James Mapstone outlines how 'PAGs' form the foundation of the Alliance's work in using the power of sport to tackle crime and rehabilitate offenders. The National Alliance of Sport for the Desistance...