Barclays Game Changers.

The Youth Sport Trust had an exciting new project launching in partnership with The Football Association – Barclays Game Changers. 

This project would train ambassadors for girls’ football in schools, known as Barclays Game Changers, via a network of Athlete Mentors.

But they found themselves with a key staff member due to be responsible for the project leaving the organisation for a new role, resulting in a gap of 3 months whilst their replacement was appointed.

Youth Sport Trust reached out to Sport Sister to manage the project during the interim period between staff recruitment.  This included:

• Organising Barclays Schools Football Partnerships into clusters and appointing Cluster Coordinators to work with each partnership to identify their Barclays Game Changers
• Briefing and supporting Cluster Coordinators throughout the training process
• Working with Athlete Mentors to lead training with support of Cluster Coordinators
• Ensuring all safeguarding procedures were followed throughout the project
• Providing all Barclays Game Changers with welcome packs as part of their training
• Managing effective communications and project updates with Youth Sport Trust and The Football Association

• Ensured the project could continue on time and as planned
• 185 Barclays Game Changers selected, trained, and deployed
• Effective handover of the project to a newly appointed member of Youth Sport Trust staff
• Integration with wider girls’ schools football programmes