Amy Heppingstall
Phone: 0845 450 9433
Mobile : 07917 388 169
Profile
Amy graduated from Staffordshire University with a 1st Class honors degree in Leisure Management with Sports Development. She joined the company in November 2004, after a year of managing a Children’s Fund project in Staffordshire. The Aspire Project engaged local children aged 8 – 13 years old in life-benefiting experiences designed to enhance their personal and social development. The project was such a success that Staffordshire Children’s Fund has put it forward as an example of a ‘Good Practice Project’ in their report to the government, December 2004. Amy is a qualified CSLA tutor.
Role
Amy leads the Coach Team and her specific role entails sourcing new business opportunities, compiling tenders, managing our team of Community Sports Coaches and working with the other team members to develop and deliver the coaching services. Amy manages Alaina Allen and Katherine Robinson who currently coordinate and deliver the Coach Education and Support Programme, to develop coaches from disadvantaged backgrounds. The team, have recently developed Sportscoachfinder, the Coach Management and deployment programme.
Amy is currently on secondment to sports coach UK covering the role of Coach Development Officer for Warwickshire and to Sandwell MBC managing the Pathways to Employment through Sport Programme – a collection of six projects working towards getting people into work through the median of sport.
Experience
Amy joined Sport Structures as the co-ordinator for the Coach Education and Support Programme, which operates in the South Black Country West Birmingham Regeneration zone. This role entailed working with potential sports coaches, NGB’s and local agencies and sports clubs. Amy co-ordinated this successful programme for a year, she gained useful business and management skills which she has found useful in her new role.
Throughout her time managing the Aspire Project, Amy compiled policies and procedures, designed project plans, devised monitoring and evaluation systems and developed participation strategies, to ensure the project reached beyond its projected outcomes and mile stones.
Amy has previously worked for Lichfield District Council as a Multi-Sports Community Coach and a sport specific Athletics Coach, offering intensive training opportunities for the children and young people of the district.
Amy is an active athletics coach currently operating out of Wolverhampton University, where she is coaching with the Senior Athletics Coach. She is a progressive and ambitious coach currently working towards UKA Level III Speed Coaching award. She has recently begun tutoring for UK Athletics on the Elevating Athletics programme and Shine Awards. In December 2006 Amy pass the sports coach UK Coach Educator programme. Amy has gained a place on the Coaching MSc at Loughborough University starting in September 2007.
