Gymnastics Trafford

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Trafford Leisure

The role

For anyone aged 14 or more

Complete your Duke of Edinburgh programme with Gymnastics Trafford – you’ll develop new skills, gain experience, make new friends, and make a difference in the local community, through participation in sport.

Reasons to complete your Duke of Edinburgh programme with Gymnastics Trafford

  • You’ll develop new skills
  • You’ll expand your knowledge
  • Become more confident in working with new people
  • Make new friends
  • Become part of a dedicated team of volunteers
  • Your experience could be useful for UCAS personal statements and National Records of Achievement

During your DofE programme, you will volunteer for as little as two hours a week for a minimum of three months, but this can change depending on your role and how much time you can give.

Volunteering with Gymnastics Trafford will have an interesting and impactful way, to invest in yourself, through developing your social skills, how to work as part of a team, and with mentors and coaches to learn new coaching techniques and skill progression, and develop gymnastics and our own self-confidence as a volunteer leader.

The availability of volunteering positions for particular age groups will be made according to whether we can offer the appropriate level of support, to ensure volunteers have a positive experience.

Volunteer Assistant Junior Coach Skills:

  • Helping maintain a safe & fun learning environment
  • Helping primary children learn foundation skills of gymnastics
  • Developing your communication and leadership skills
  • Developing your knowledge of foundation gymnastics skill progression
  • Meet and greet gymnasts and their accompanying guardian/parent
  • Being a role model to others

Available gymnastics volunteering positions:

  • Sale Leisure Centre – Wednesday 4pm – 6pm & Saturday 9am – 11am
  • Altrincham Leisure Centre – Tuesday & Wednesday 4pm – 6pm, Friday 5pm – 7pm and Saturday 9am – 11am

Volunteers are offered the opportunity to join our relief coaching team where appropriate.

How to apply

Email your interest to GymnasticsTrafford@traffordleisure.co.uk