Community Activator Apprenticeship

TFG COACHING LTD

Leighton Buzzard (LU7 1TQ)

Closes in 28 days (Friday 29 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 31 July 2025

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Summary

Love physical activity? Love working with people? We’re looking for an energetic, friendly, and motivated Community Activator Apprentice to help run our community sports facilities, support local people to get active, organise and deliver exciting activities!

Wage

£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course
Community sport and health officer (level 3)
Hours
Shifts will be Monday to Friday between 3pm and 10pm and weekends between 8am and 6pm - with 2 days off each week.

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Setting up and packing away sports like pickleball, badminton, football pitches and more.
  • Helping with sports facility lettings and making sure everything runs smoothly.
  • Running fun weekend birthday parties — think inflatables, go-karts, and action-packed games!
  • Supporting sports and health programmes that make a difference in our community.
  • Delivering sports coaching sessions (once you’ve gained your Level 2 coaching qualification).
  • Keeping our spaces safe, clean, and welcoming for everyone.
  • Learning about facility management, site security and opening and closing procedures

Where you'll work

5 Leck House
Lake Street
Leighton Buzzard
LU7 1TQ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

KIDZ ZONE CLUB LTD

Training course

Community sport and health officer (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Successful application of tactics and strategies to empower people from inactive and hard to reach populations to take up an active lifestyle
  • Successful application of a range of approaches that bring about changes in attitudes and behaviours within target communities
  • Supporting people within target communities to become involved in the preparation, planning and delivery of sport and active lifestyles
  • Using local insight and customer-orientated marketing skills to attract high priority groups into existing leisure, parks and sport infrastructure
  • Negotiation, lobbying and brokerage skills with local partners across public health, community development and anti social behaviour
  • Demonstrate clear and effective communication techniques in order to give/receive information accurately and in a timely and positive manner
  • Problem solving and effective decision making with regards the design and implementation of sport and physical activity programmes
  • Writing successful funding bids to enable new, different or more opportunities to take place for sport and physical activity
  • Managing disruptive behaviour of clients and customers before, during and after activities
  • Managing and adapting personal behaviours to ensure provision is inclusive, customer-focused and accessible
  • Building partnerships and developing meaningful relationships with local partners and stakeholders in sport and physical activity

Training schedule

Tutorials will be online every 2 weeks with workplace observations and practical training days.

More training information

Future apprenticeships are for industry specialists working with employers in the sports coaching, fitness, physical activity, childcare and education industry.

Requirements

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness

About this employer

TFG have been operating since 2011 providing the local community with sports, physical activity and education services

After this apprenticeship

Various pathways into sports development, lettings management, activity leadership or sports coaching.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

KIDZ ZONE CLUB LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334906.

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Closes in 28 days (Friday 29 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

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