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2006 award recepients

In partnership with the Nancy Ovens Trust, SkillsActive were delighted to award its first ever bursary for community development in 2006.

The bursary awardees in 2006 were

  • Laura Harvey, a volunteer coach with Birmingham City Ladies FC, who completed her UEFA A coaching licence;
  • Steve Jones, a English Volleyball Association coach education and development officer, and England women’s performance coach, who undertook a series of visits to Italy where he worked with a volleyball club in Perugia and development centres in the region, also visiting CONI – the Italian Olympic Association.
  • Roger Pickering, a volunteer rugby league coach, who took a sabbatical from his day job to coach on a full-time voluntary basis as part of the Vale Royal School Sports Partnership in Cheshire;
  • Glenn Smith, a swimming coach and development officer at Mansfield City Council, who will undertook a programme of coaching sessions with the head performance swimming coach at Loughborough University;

More details of all the bursary awardees can be found below:

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