Sports Academies - Unleashing Potential

Back in my uni days at Loughborough I dreamt of coaching sports to children, inspiring them to be the next David Beckham or Paula Radcliffe and having a fun time in the process. I therefore became a PE teacher and had a wonderful time, met hundreds of amazing children and parents and learnt more about children’s sport coaching than I thought possible. However, what always got me was how long school holidays were and how little was available for children. There was, and still is, a lack of quality child care and sports coaching for children during school holidays. Sport Academies was born…

Sport Academies is based on the philosophy that we need to provide children with Fun, Safe, Active and Inspirational activities. I’m passionate about providing children with this environment so they can play sport and learn all the wonderful things that happen when you lead a sporty life. Team work, fair play, enjoyment, competition, communication and the importance of being fit and healthy. I believe the best way to achieve these things is to organize inspirational activities with great coaches at great venues.

We have been running school holiday camps for five years and developed our program to include Tiny Tots Sport Academies for 3 to 5 year olds during holidays and Mini Soccer Academies to give parents a friendly and fun football coaching program for 3 to 7 year olds.  We also aim to take our coaches into schools for PE lessons and after-school clubs.  I’ve have listened to parents and children and developed a curriculum and a team to deliver sport to children in the fun, safe active and inspirational environment I always believed in.

My team shares my passion and philosophies and when you attend one of our camps or classes this energy will shine through. All our coaches want to see happy children and we all get a real buzz to see improvement and potential being unleashed.

We are not your ordinary sports class and we are not your standard school holiday child care camp. We are constantly updating our curricular, developing new games and researching coaching theory, sports science and child development ideas. We consult physios to chat movement, dietitians to hear about nutrition, coaches to discuss sport and most importantly parents and children to understand what they want.

Be it Sport Academies holiday camps, Tiny Tots holiday camps or Mini Soccer coaching you will be amazed with how we can unleash potential.

We are always looking to hear from like minded people who would like to join our team.

If you would like to chat about Sport Academies please do not hesitate to call or email me.

Yours in sport,

Paul Clarke MSc
Director Sport Academies Ltd.