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TOP Link Conferences

Students

8th February 2008 (plus other dates see below)
Various venues

TOP Link is designed to enhance links between schools and encourage 14 to 16 year olds to organise and manage, sport or dance festivals in local primary and special schools. The conferences are designed to develop these skills and encourage young people to become leaders who can use their skills to benefit the wider community.

What makes the TOP Link conferences even more special is that Higher Education Students, supported by some of the country’s best-known sports stars, will deliver the programme to reinforce the power of using young people to lead and inspire their peers.

Each venue will host workshops on encouraging the young people to participate in sport, share ideas about the organisation and management of the festivals and develop their own leadership skills.

Young Leaders are also challenged to find a volunteering placement within their school and to achieve their first 50 hours of volunteering (Bronze Step into Sport Award).

The programme is part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Step into Sport programme and is connected to existing school leadership work such as the Level 1 in Sports Leadership (formerly JSLA) and CSLA to: Level 2 in Community Sport Leader Awards (formerly CSLA)

32 Conferences are taking part across the country at the venues below.

Venue locations:

8th February 2008

Canterbury Christ Church

College of St Mark and St John 1

David Beckham’s Academy

Edge Hill University

Essex University

Leeds Metropolitan University

Leeds Trinity & All Saints

Liverpool John Moores University

Newman College

Nottingham Trent University

Sandbach Sports College

Sheffield Hallam University

University of Bath 1

University of Birmingham

University of Cumbria – TBC

University of Gloucester

University of Portsmouth

University of Sunderland

University of Teesside

University of Wolverhampton

University of Worcester

Location

 

Plymouth

London

Lancashire

 

 

 

 

Birmingham

 

Cheshire

26th February 2008

College of St Mark & St John 2

Oxford Brookes University

University of Bath 2

Coventry University

University of Teesside

St Mary’s College

 

Plymouth

 

 

 

 

Twickenham

27th February 2008

University of Brighton

 

28th February 2008

Luton University

 

29th February 2008

David Beckham’s Academy

 

London

4th & 6th March 2008

Loughborough University

 

12th March 2008

Loughborough University

 

13th March 2008

University of Ulster

 

Jordanstown Campus

13th March 2008

University of Stirling