Welcome
to WEST
We Enjoy Sport Together! TM
Supervision & Compliance: 0870 770 8022
Administration, Finance & Project Managagement: 0870 770 8023
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OPPORTUNITIES
* Skills, Knowledge, Training, Experience.
* Community Youth Sports Development.
* The WEST Volunteer Program.
* The WEST Management Program.
* The WEST Management Team.
To Volunteer for the WEST Volunteer Program click here and follow the instructions as part of the Volunteer Induction process:
The Volunteer Program
provides adults with opportunities to use profesional qualifications and skills sets in a wide range of management, Communications, IT, and human resources functions, Within a sports development enviroment.
The WEST Management Program
Is a Program of modular Workshops providing the skills, Knowledge, Training, and experience necessary to qualify as a community sports
Development Officers, and to gain valuable vocational training and organisational management experience.
The WEST Management Team
are volunteers from the community that participate in the WEST Management Program and run the Management, Administration, Coaching and development of WEST.
To find out more about WEST
TM and local activities, please email
info@west.uk.net
Graduates of W.E.S.T.'s FA L1CIC certification course in first aid, child protection, and best practice in techniques for coaching young people aged 8-13. Fourteen young coaches aged 16+ from the local English, African, West Indian, and Islamic Middle Eastern ethnic communities, have now become fully fledged members of the W.E.S.T. coaching staff, with the support of the Football Association, the Paddington Development Trust, HSBC Bank, Nike, and Westminster’s Community Safety Team. The W.E.S.T. Initiative (West End Sports Teams) is a community based youth inclusion initiative using sport as a means of attracting youth off the streets, away from crime and drugs, helping to achieve Westminster's Crime & Disorder Reduction targets. W.E.S.T. was founded by the Metropolitan Police, the Churches of Little Venice, and the Paddington Sector Working Group of the Police & Community Consultative Partnership, an innovative prototype of public/private collaboration representing diverse multi-ethnic community stakeholders in the quest for a safe and civil inner-city. Pictured above from left to right: Michael, Gemichis, Chris, Arbin, Chris, Nathan, Lisa, Khalid, Emmanuel, Christie, Meriton, Alan, Marc, Barry, Fiso, and Matthew.
Education & Personal Development
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WEST was founded to provide a better future
for youth, via sport. In our multi-ethnic, inner city neighbourhoods,
young people are challenged by many difficult issues. WEST
provides solutions to help young people overcome these challenges,
and to bond together as friends, using an interest in sport
as a common attraction.
As young people mature through the programme
into adulthood, WEST provides career opportunities as a means
of improving their individual lives, and the well being of
the wider communities in which they live.
WEST’s current Education & Personal
Development activities are comprised of educational activities
and vocational training in the following areas:
Football Coaching & Sports Development
Healthy Lifestyles & Drug Awareness
Organisational Development & Community Partnering
There are currently 19 young people obtaining
Vocational training and work experience on an on-going basis
within WEST, and the number is growing rapidly.
WEST’s first youth apprentice, Frank Harrington,
was awarded the Whitbread Youth Sports Volunteer of the Year
Award from a national field in 2001.
