Step Into Sport

The main aim of Step into Sport is to encourage more young people to become involved in sport in their local community.

Step into Sport concentrates on training new volunteers, aged between 14 years and 19 years. Step into Sport builds on existing structures and programmes such as Junior Sports Leaders Award and Community Sports Leader Award to encourage and generate greater volunteer links between schools and clubs.

Step into Sport is a joint project funded by Sport England, Youth Sport Trust and Sports Leaders UK and every year, Step into Sport holds a 'Volunteering and Leadership Conference', to encourage and sustain young people's involvement in quality community volunteering placements.

This two-day conference includes a variety of workshops, practical and theory sessions, team building, coaching skills, equity awareness and safety.

For more information speak to your school or Sport Partnership Development Managers - for contact details click here

Merseyside Youth Games

The Merseyside Youth Games is an annual event that invites sporting youngsters from the six boroughs of Merseyside to compete and represent their borough.

The Games plays host to a variety of different sports, and competitors range from all levels of sporting abilities. The games were originally formed in 1992 and involved the then 5 local authorities with a total of 1200 competitors. Since then the number of sports have grown as well as the number of competitors to over 3,500. While year round trials for the games involve over 60,000 young sports people.

As well as being an excellent opportunity for young people to compete in such a wide range of sports it also provides any one who is willing, the chance to volunteer in a variety of tasks. Because, without the help of the hundreds of volunteers, the Youth Games would simply not be able to run.

Merseyside Community Games

Merseyside Community Games is an event to encourage those young people within the community who are seen as 'socially excluded' to engage in sport and cultural activities.

The event consists of organised competitions in a number of sports and taster sessions. In order to recruit competitors for the Merseyside Community Youth Games, the Youth Service organise local tournaments. These local tournaments establish the best team for each sport, and the best team to represent their local authority at the Merseyside Community Youth Games.

Merseyside Schools Championships for Disabled Children

Merseyside Sports Partnership organise a number of events through out the year across the County.

Please contact Steve Sullivan on 0151 231 5392 during office hours if you are interested in volunteering at any of the Disability Events.

Local Authorities

Contact your local authority Sports Development Officer who will have great links to local clubs and sport and physical activity programmes who may be looking for volunteers

National Governing Bodies

Contact a National Governing Body who will have great links with local clubs in your area who may be looking for volunteers.

Council for Voluntary Service

The Council for Voluntary Services, of which there are 6 in Merseyside, have a role to offer

• Information and advice
• Funding advice
• Training
• IT Training and support
• Volunteering

Click here for contact details of the CVS’s

Volunteer Development Agencies provide support at a local level for local people and local volunteering organisations. Services they deliver include

• Brokerage
• Market volunteering
• Good Practice
• Policy Response and campaigning
• Strategy Development for volunteering

For further opportunities in volunteering visit www.do-it.org.uk