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:
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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 |
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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 |
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27th February 2008 University of Brighton |
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28th February 2008 Luton University |
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29th February 2008 David Beckham’s Academy |
London |
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4th & 6th March 2008 Loughborough University |
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12th March 2008 Loughborough University |
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13th March 2008 University of Ulster |
Jordanstown Campus |
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13th March 2008 University of Stirling |
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