Community and Grassroots Sport Development
A free short course by Sportal Corporate — not a credit-bearing university award.
1h 47m of video4 videos10 written lessons
How sport is used to change things at community level — sport for development, assessing need, inclusion, volunteers, and measuring social impact.
The course covers delivering genuinely inclusive community sport, training community coaches so that delivery survives after the funding ends, and sport for development and peace as an established field with its own evidence and its own critics. It closes on monitoring, evaluation and social impact — how to measure honestly, and how to resist the temptation to report participation numbers as outcomes.
It suits NGO and foundation staff, community sport officers, local authority teams, volunteers running grassroots clubs, and students on a sport development or social work course. Four video lessons, several of them full sessions, are released one at a time with written notes and key terms. A ten-question quiz at 80% earns a verifiable certificate.
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Free, self-paced, no payment. Work through the lessons, pass the quiz, and get a certificate you can verify by QR code.
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What you will learn
14 lessons · 1h 47m- 1How this course works
- 2Video 1 — Delivering inclusive community sport4m
- 3Notes — Delivering inclusive community sport
- 4Video 2 — Training community coaches7m
- 5Notes — Training community coaches
- 6Video 3 — Sport for development and peace58m
- 7Notes — Sport for development and peace
- 8Video 4 — Monitoring, evaluation and social impact39m
- 9Notes — Monitoring, evaluation and social impact
- 10Key terms
- 11Key takeaways
- 12Applied output — An inclusive community programme and impact framework
- 13Further viewing — optional
- 14Exercise — Find out what a community actually wants
Lessons unlock one at a time. Finish them all, score 80% on the quiz, and your certificate is issued automatically.