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A local partnership programme that creates stepping stones for young people to move towards sports participation, training, education, volunteering and employment opportunities. Supported by.

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  1. A local partnership programme that creates stepping stones for young people to move towards sports participation, training, education, volunteering and employment opportunities. . Supported by

  2. Young people get their lives “on track” through the engagement with our mentors who use their experience in life as an elite sportsperson to ensure that young people who participate in the programme improve some of the core foundations for life that include: • Confidence and self-belief, • Communication & teamwork skills • Self-resilience, Future aspirations for life • Overall health and wellbeing via the use of sport and physical activity ON YOUR MARKS Three Sessions KEEP ON TRACK Beyond WARM UP Three Sessions GO! One Session GET SET Twelve Sessions

  3. Warm Up • Enticement and enrollment of hard to reach young people by our elite athlete mentors with local partners • Small or large scale sessions

  4. On Your Marks • Personal Development Programme led by qualified youth workers with athlete mentor support • ‘Get fit for sport’ activities enhances a positive attitude towards physical exercise, resulting in confidence and competence, with an aim to form sporting habits

  5. Get Set Phase One • A series of sessions leading to a TEAM CHALLENGE which prepares young people for sport, for work, for volunteering and for life delivered at local GOT community clubs and athlete mentor led. Developed in partnership with local development partners and organisations

  6. Get Set Phase Two • Enables each young person to put into practice the skills learnt through the programme thus far and enable them to experience their community and identify opportunities within it as part of a ‘menu of opportunities’ • Menu of Opportunity provides “supported” experiences into local opportunities in • Volunteering • Training/education • Work experience/apprenticeships • and continued sports/physical activity participation

  7. Go! • Celebrating achievements with ambassadors, local stakeholders and GoT club members • Stakeholders: employers, training and community groups who provide exit route support for each young person acknowledged • Exit pathways with national and local delivery partners to go into sport, volunteering, training and employment • Links with other community sporting events

  8. Keep on Track • Mentoring sessions with athletes at 3, 6 and 12 months after projects • Support via information and opportunities to continue to participate in sport including funds to help move young people into leadership role • Involved as a speaker or leader with other young people. • Opportunities to be: • Access funding to support transition into Sport, Training, Education, Volunteering and Employment • Involved in young people steering groups for GoT projects. • Part of Kelly's Fundraiser and link into other key community sporting events

  9. Why we are so successful and different from other projects • Get on Track’s greatest success is its ability to motivate young people and to increase confidence, self-esteem and determination • The young people clearly respected the sporting champions that they had worked with, and praised them for possessing many admirable mentoring qualities • The passion and commitment that the athlete mentors display in relation to improving the life chances of disadvantaged young people is to be commended Independent research through Qa, February 2011

  10. SUMMARY OF GET ON TRACK Warm up Three Sessions Keep on Track Beyond Go! One Session On Your Marks Three Sessions Get Set Twelve Sessions • See more people taking on and keeping a sporting habit for life • Create more opportunities for young people • Support local community partners to sustain support • Ensure real opportunities for communities

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