Each year the FA give young leaders in school years 11 and 12 an opportunity to put themselves forward to attend a prestigious National training camp.
The last camp took place Warwick University in July 2009. It involved a whole variety of learning opportunities around leadership skills, team building and football in general. The event was run by National FA staff and organised by young leaders. It covered a whole breadth of football disciplines, from learning about coaching and refereeing, to sports science and goalkeeping, and on to disability football and the new and exciting game of 5-a-side called FUTSAL! The event was opened by Sir Trevor Brooking, before the 100 young leaders from across the country embarked on learning about the above areas of the game.
As well as attending the FA Young Leaders Camp, four young leaders were selected to go to Botswana to support our International Placement programme ‘Changing Lives, Saving Lives.’ A fantastic opportunity and life changing moment for the Young Leaders involved. Plus there is the chance to volunteer and work at national, regional and county football events in England too.
To see a report and photographs on the Botswana project, please click on the link below:
http://thefa.com/GetIntoFootball/School/
NewsAndFeatures/2009/changinglives_botswana.aspx
In 2007 one of the young leaders chosen to go to Malawi on the ‘Changing Live, Saving Lives’ programme was Prathiv Kohlia AKA Storma from Bosworth Community College, Leicestershire. He was one of four young leaders tasked with helping young female African leaders to organise and deliver football activities to Children in Malawi. Please click on attached document for Storma’s Diary of events in Africa.
In the East Midlands Region, a regional camp is held before the national camp. Here, all 5 counties within the region nominate 10 young leaders to attend the day long camp where they undertake various workshops to learn about various aspects of football, these included media training, refereeing and FUNdamental skills. From here a male and female from each county is selected to attend the National Camp.
Please contact Adam Holyoake 0n 0116 2844951 or e-mail adam.holyoake@LeicestershireFA.com for further information or if you are interested in becoming part of the Leicestershire and Rutland / The FA Young Leadership Programme please complete the application form in the related documents section