The British American Football Coaches Association are working in partnership with UK Coaching to develop provision to help develop and support coaches post COVID. As part of this partnership BAFCA are l delighted to introduce and promote the #RetrainToRetrain: which offers fully-funded access to a range of UK Coaching online training courses and resources to…
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*CONVENTION UPDATE* BAFCA Virtual Convention Friday 9th July 2pm – 9pm Saturday 10th July 10am – 8pm Sunday 11th July 10am – 8pm This year’s BAFCA Virtual Convention will consist of a mixture of Live Clinics, Recorded Sessions and Discussion Roundtables. We have over 30 US and UK coaches confirmed covering all aspects and codes…
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BAFA COMBINE – POWERED BY ARCHON Pete Ackerley (Chief Executive at BAFA) and Matt Ford (Founder of Archon and ex Britball player) have formed an alliance in order to forge a new era of fitness within the British American Football landscape. Our aim is to create players who have a higher level of physical readiness…
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Message from Chief Executive Pete Ackerley Today the UK Government shared information on the proposed roadmap out of lockdown in England. We are very pleased to welcome the news that as part of this, outdoor teams sports can potentially return to activity from 29 March. While this is very encouraging, we now need to be…
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We are delighted to have entered into partnership with Sports Structures to support BAFCA in streamlining and developing our coach education pathway. Sports Structures are supporting British American Football Coaches Association in developing online content including a virtual classroom. This streamlining of the coach education pathway has taken the theory of the coaching courses out…
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Upcoming Safeguarding Course BAFCA are working with Sports Structure in developing an e-leaning / virtual learning platform. As part of this we will be promoting relevant courses to our members: Sports Structures have a live online safeguarding workshop on Monday 7th December (6.30-9pm). They are offering a 10% discount to BAFCA Members as partners who…
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): grassroots sports guidance for safe provision including team sport, contact combat sport and organised sport events
Message from Pete Ackerley I want to provide you with an update on the situation with return to play, registrations and refunds. We are obviously in a challenging period at the moment for British American football and sport as a whole, and the various rules across different parts of the country provide further complications. While…
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