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City of Nottingham library resources
Monday 16 July saw the launch of a new collection of books in the city which are dedicated solely to sports coaching. This was celebrated at Angel Row Library with a coaching session for local children of Huntingdon Primary School run by local coach and Paralympic athlete Richard Whitehead who is a coach on the highly successful Play Sport project which aims to develop fundamental sports skills in young children.”
The books have been provided by the City Council’s Sports Development team in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council’s Sports Service and Active Sports in Nottinghamshire’s coaching development teams. This is a brand new project for the area and marks a new partnership between sports and the city libraries service.
This is the third library in the county to be housing books for this project. There are already resources in Retford Library in the north of the county and at Beeston Library in the south. Customers will be able to request these resources to be delivered to their local library. They do not have to visit the city to use them.
Denise Richards - Coaching Development Officer for Active Sports in Nottinghamshire said “We know coaching resources are quite difficult to come by and are often very expensive. This is a barrier to coaches developing their skills. I hope that coaches will accept our invitation to come and make use of this resource and suggest any new titles we can add. It is wonderful that we can pool resources with the City Council to provide such a useful tool for our coaches and also nice to work across departments with the Libraries Service. I hope we can collaborate on further coaching projects.”
More information on this project can be found in the Coaching Projects section
Coaches are now able to access coaching resource material from Libraries in the County. The first coaching section was opened at Retford Library on 30 June and the second collection will be available at Beeston Library on 27 October.
Don't worry if you don't live nearby. You can request any of the resources from your local library and have them delivered.
For more information on the project please visit the coaching projects section by using the following link: Information on the coaching resources projects
Coach audit 2006
A very successful audit has seen in excess of 600 questionnaires submitted.Results will be available to view on Coach Sport soon.Many thanks to all who took part.This will be an invaluable tool for helping to develop coaching in Nottinghamshire.Coaches who have not completed the survey can still do so by contacting denise.richards@nottscc.gov.uk or telephoning 0115 9772311
Coaching Development Interviews Frank Barlow
Coaching Development has been lucky enough to interview the former caretaker manager of Nottingham Forest - Frank Barlow.
Frank, who has since moved on to a similar position at Hull City, was happy to chat to Denise Richards about many aspects of coaching.
You can download a copy of the interview transcript by clicking on the attached documents. We have made the items available in PDF or Microsoft Word format.
Frank Barlow interview [36KB] 
Frank Barlow interview [47KB] 
Coach Audit preliminary report now available
The report which surveyed coaches across Nottinghamshire is now available to download. We will be doing some more work to compare our findings Nationally and to map our information to create a visual representation of the data. This will be completed early in the New Year.
Coach Audit preliminary report [PDF 1348KB]
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