Kick Off has been helping children get active since 2012

Kick Off Stroud started in 2012 setting up an after school club in a local school and has trained and developed 19 coaches since then, some are still with us and others have moved on to new ventures. We are a community interest company, we are not in this industry for money, we are here to change lives; the lives of our coaches and the children we work with.

Our children

We believe every child should have access to good quality sports coaching and physical education. We want to help every child, whether that is to help them achieve their dream of being an Olympic athlete or to get more active in school. Every child has different abilities, goals and likes and we want to work with them all. Whether that is at school during the term to help them engage in a PE lesson or play at lunch or whether that is at a holiday club in the school holidays. We believe good physical activity and team sports helps children in all aspects of their lives.

Our coaches

We want to train a whole generation of new sports coaches across our District. We invest in good quality training to ensure our coaches are the best they can be and provide top quality coaching to our children. We run an apprenticeship scheme to train youngsters to become sport coaches and teaching assistants, they come out of the apprenticeship with a full qualification and a years worth of on the job training.

Meet our team below…

Damien

Damien is our executive director he has worked with Kick Off Stroud since 2012. He works in one of our schools delivering the PE curriculum, organising out of school sport events and training our apprentices. In the holidays he runs our holiday clubs.

Damien’s favourite sports are boxing and cross fit.

George

George is our current apprentice and has worked with Kick Off Stroud since 2022. He works alongside Damien at one of our schools and is completing a sports focused teaching assistant apprenticeship.

George’s favourite sport is football.

Tim

Tim is our business development lead and has worked with Kick Off Stroud since 2021. Tim’s first role at Kick Off was delivering football focused sessions after school and at our holiday clubs which led to him driving our business development approach.

Tim is a huge fan of any team sport, but does have a particular passion for football.

Jo

Jo is the Company Secretary and organises all the admin for Kick Off Stroud. If you book into a holiday Jo is the one you will speak to.

Jo’s favourite sports to watch are tennis and football.