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Activity Alliance
Online courses and resources on promoting inclusive and accessible physical activity opportunities for everyone.
Activity Alliance – Inclusive Activity Programme eLearning
Activity Alliance's eLearning module offers a fun and interactive introduction to the Inclusive Activity Programme. It is a great starting point for anyone wanting to learn more about the key principles of inclusion in sport and physical activity.
Alzheimer’s Society Learning Hub
Improve your knowledge and understanding of dementia through an online learning experience.
Anaphylaxis Awareness Course for Fitness Professionals – Free
Every year, people suffer severe allergic reactions in gyms, studios, and fitness facilities, often with little warning. Knowing what to do in those first few minutes can mean the difference between life and death.
This short online course, developed by Apex Fitness Education, has been created to help fitness professionals recognise the signs of anaphylaxis and respond quickly and confidently in an emergency.
Barclays Digital Wings
Barclays Digital Wings offers a wealth of resources including topics such as how to stay safe online, mastering smartphone photography, community and club management: A digital toolkit and so many more.
Boing
Boing offer a variety of coaching courses and free resources to help empower coaches and volunteers to get the kids they work with more active and physically literate.
Buddle Learning
A range of learning opportunities to enhance skills in sports and physical activity leadership. Supported by Sport England.
Burrell Education
Women's health resources and training. Including pregnancy, health for girls and menopause.
Canrehab
Education and training in cancer and exercise rehabilitation for health and fitness professionals.
Choreographytogo
Choreographytogo is your trusted provider of online fitness qualifications, CPD courses, and class inspiration as well as fantastic resources to support fitness professionals. New instructor workshops and courses are added weekly.
CIMSPA Careers
A dedicated hub which offers resources for anyone interested in pursuing or developing their career in the sport and physical activity sector.
CIMSPA Digital Marketing Hub
Digital marketing resources and training. Designed to support professionals in the sports and physical activity sectors.
CLIP
Professional development courses. Clip Learning helps individuals upskill and advance their careers in health, fitness, and wellbeing.
Coach Core
Inclusive and impactful sports coaching apprenticeships that develop the talents of young people. Working in particular with people who face barriers, discrimination, and lack of opportunities.
Darkside Rising CIC
Darkside Rising CIC offer training to provide community organisations and volunteers with the tools they need to deliver inclusive, trauma informed physical activity.
Dementia Friends
Online training and tools. Changing the way we think, act and talk about Dementia.
East Midlands Sports Welfare Forum
An informal Facebook group supporting club welfare officers and other club volunteers with safeguarding. Run by East Midlands Active Partnerships Welfare Officers including Active Lincolnshire.
Event Advice and Guidance from Magna Vitae
Magna Vitae provide advice and guidance to event organisers in East Lindsey to help them plan and deliver safe and well organised events.
Finbogo | Find Book Go
An all-in-one platform to help run and promote your business, handling everything from managing bookings and taking payments to tracking client progress, sending appointment reminders, and streamlining your admin – so you can spend more time with your client.
Fitness Industry Services CIC
Fitness Industry Services CIC offer a variety of services to support fitness instructors to do what they do best including Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance, Music Licences, DBS checks and Bid Writing.
FitPro
Jump onto the FitPro online education platform to access world-class education from your home or on the go. There’s a vast choice, from movement is medicine, to nutrition, to women’s health, to special populations … the list goes on. Stay relevant – start a course today.
fsb – support for small businesses and the self-employed
FSB is the UK's leading membership organisation for small businesses and the self-employed. They offer a variety of free resources including articles, videos, and guides on key topics, as well as a calendar of events, including business bootcamps and networking opportunities.
Inclusive Language Guide
Inclusive Language Guide. A guide to support you to utilise language in verbal and written communication that makes everyone feel valued.
Introduction to First Aid in Sport and Physical Activity – Free
This free (funded) interactive 75-minute online course gives you the essential first aid skills to spot, assess, and respond to common issues quickly. Whether you're a coach, parent supporting your child's team from the sidelines, or you're actively involved in your local club, this course is for you. Learn how to manage bleeding, choking, minor injuries and more, while making sound decisions under pressure.
With practical tools like a Reflection Guide and Action Planner, you’ll apply your learning straight to your team or class. 100% online and self-paced, perfect to fit around your schedule. Enrol today!
JB Sport + Education Training
Lincolnshire training provider for first aid, mental health, sports leadership and swimming & lifeguard qualifications.
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Partnership
Support and advice on all aspects of volunteering, whether you are an individual, group or organisation.
Lincolnshire Recovery College
Free courses on mental health, resilience, and wellbeing. Open to anyone aged 16+ in Lincolnshire, helping individuals build coping skills and confidence.
Lincolnshire Sleep Hub
The Lincolnshire Sleep Hub is a project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, helping the people of Lincolnshire to sleep well. They offer CPD accredited training to be able to offer valuable support and engage people in conversations to help promote restorative sleep.
LIVES Training
First aid and emergency training courses. Equipping individuals and organisations with the skills they need to save lives.
Magna Vitae Training Courses
Magna Vitae offers a wide array of courses from National Pool Lifeguard Qualifications and Swim Teacher Courses.
Menopause Movement
Are you a personal trainer, physiotherapist, strength coach, or wellness practitioner looking to better support women through menopause? The Menopause Movement's Certified Menopause Training Course is designed specifically for the professionals who want to teach, treat, and train menopausal clients with confidence and expertise.
Move it or Lose it
Move it or Lose it train you to teach safe and effective exercise classes for older adults. They also offers a range of bespoke training workshops for care homes, charities and organisations who work with older adults and want to promote independence and enhance their physical and mental health.
MXFit
Licensed, original artist fitness music, designed exclusively for group fitness instructors in the UK.
NBV
Thinking of starting your own business? NBV specialise in supporting pre-starts, new start businesses and micro businesses.
NWG Network
A network providing resources and support for safeguarding young people, offering training and guidance on best practices for community leaders and organisations.
Parkinson’s: physical activity and exercise course
Parkinson's: physical activity and exercise (Excellence Network). This course is for people who provide or promote physical activity and exercise to people with Parkinson's. This may be in a leisure centre, health care setting or in the community.
Play Their Way
The Play Their Way movement aims to support coaches to give children and young people a choice in their experiences of activity, create space for them to voice their wishes and enable them to take ownership of their development journey. Their website offers a vast library of resources that can be integrated into your coaching toolkit.
Playwaze – Competition Management
The competition management platform for your sport. A simple and flexible competition management toolkit for local sports leagues and regional associations, to national programmes and championships.
Playwaze – Online Booking System
The online booking system for sport and activity. A simple and straight-forward way to take online bookings and payments for your sessions, classes, and camps.
Pure Energy
Music for fitness professionals. Original compositions designed for all types of workout.
Ramblers Stride
Walk Leadership Foundations by the Ramblers is an online course that will give you the skills and knowledge to lead group walks with confidence.
Reach Up EMD
Reach Up is resource hub for group exercise instructors. Built by EMD UK in collaboration with This Girl Can, and funded by the National Lottery, this free to access platform contains bitesize learning to help group exercise instructors engage more women.
Safeguarding and Protecting Children for Young Coaches
Discover the key elements of effective coaching and learn how to implement these practices to become a more confident and successful coach. This course is targeted at 16 to 17-year-olds starting out on their coaching journey, however if your journey starts earlier, this is still the workshop for you!
Safeguarding and Protecting People Courses
Learn how to create an environment where children, young people and adults feel safe. Choose from a variety of learning options, including online courses and in-person workshops, designed to fit your schedule.
Safeguarding and Welfare Guide
Safeguarding and Welfare Guide. A comprehensive resource to help you create safe, inclusive, and enjoyable environments in sports clubs and physical activity settings.
Safety Training Awards
Safety Training Awards is the awarding organisation of The Swimming Teachers’ Association. They offer and certificate vocational qualifications across a range of swimming teaching, lifesaving, first aid, health and safety and pool plant disciplines.
Shifting Diabetes – An awareness of working with diabetic members (gym)
An Awareness of Working with Diabetic Members (Gym) is a specialist CPD course designed to equip you with essential knowledge, skills, and confidence to work effectively with diabetic clients.
Shine Lincolnshire
Mental health first aid training and other essential wellbeing topics, Shine Lincolnshire supports communities with valuable skills and knowledge.
Skills Bootcamps – FREE
There are some great government initiatives designed to help you to access free, online and on-demand training courses to upskill or progress in your current career. These courses are often designed to help you develop new skills that employers are looking for, so they can be a great way for you to gain knowledge and practical, in-demand skills.
Sound Dynamics
Sound systems for fitness instructors. Solutions for online and in person classes.
STA
Training for people working an and around swimming pools - from swimming teacher training to pool plant management.
Street Games
Training on community sports and youth engagement, Street Games helps individuals bring positive, active change to their local areas.
Supporting Children and Young People’s Health: Improving Asthma Care Together
A free eLearning resource, designed for anyone who supports children and young people with asthma.
The Fitness Group
Leaders in health and fitness education to help you advance your career. Exclusive discount available for learners in Lincolnshire - Get 55% off top courses - use code Lincolnshire55 at checkout.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Practical and step by step guidance to help you manage volunteers and the process of volunteering well.
The Open University – Sport and Fitness Hub
The Open University offers a large catalogue of free courses such as Exercise and mental health, Developing employability through sport and physical activity, Talking about the menopause and Coaching others to coach.
This Mum Moves
Become a This Mum Moves ambassador and empower women to make informed physical activity choices throughout pregnancy and beyond. Get the tools to discuss physical activity during the childbearing years whether you are delivering sessions for mums or not.
UK Coaching
Face-to-face workshops, eLearning courses, online classrooms, webinars and digital badges that equip coaches with the knowledge and skills to operate confidently and competently.
Wright Foundation
Provider of exercise referral and specialist populations exercise qualifications
YMCA Awards
Health, fitness and wellbeing qualifications are designed with industry experts and employers. Whether you are looking to take your first steps into the industry or are an established fitness professional, they have a qualification to help you get ahead.
Learn About Career Journeys
Discover how others working in sport and physical activity roles in Lincolnshire got started, what drives them, and what they find most rewarding about their jobs. Read about their journeys and be inspired to turn your passion for being active into a fulfilling career that makes a positive impact in your community.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find out more about what the Active Skills Hub has to offer and how it can support you in our frequently asked questions.
The Active Skill Hub is a ‘one stop shop’ for individuals who are planning a career in sport and physical activity, as well as those currently working in the sector who are keen to develop their skills and progress in their careers. It offers training courses, advice on career opportunities, and a range of resources tailored to address local skills gaps. The platform has been specially created for those working or wishing to work in Lincolnshire.
You can purchase access to the Active Skills Learning Portal by clicking ‘Explore Bundles’ above.
Access is available to anyone living in Lincolnshire and offers exceptional value for those working or planning to work in the sport and physical activity sector.
E-learning courses accessible via the portal include:
Duty to Care Digital Badge
Mental Health and Wellbeing: Having a conversation
Creating Safe Sessions
Developing Physical Wellbeing Within Your Practice
Sudden Cardiac Arrest e-learning
How to Plan, Coach and Reflect
Breaking Down Barriers: Tackling Racism in Sport
And many more.
Designed for individuals of all levels, from complete beginners to experienced professionals.
Looking for a paid role or volunteering role in the sport and physical activity sector? Visit our Jobs Board today to easily search for current opportunities available in Lincolnshire.
If you live, work or plan to work in the East Lindsey or South Holland, you can express your interest in applying for funding from the next round of the Active Lincolnshire Skills Fund.
Ready to Develop Your Skills?
Take the next step in your career by accessing a wide range of accredited courses. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to advance, there’s a course tailored to help you achieve your goals in the physical activity sector.
