We’d like to say a huge well done to everyone who took part on our run of online courses this half-term! You smashed it!

Across the week we held an online Leadership Award, a Foundation Cheerleading Skills Course, an Urban Cheer Foundation Skills Course and a Foundation Stunt Skills Course.

All courses held via Zoom included a mixture of theoretical and practical work with successful participants receiving a certificate of qualification and access to new resources in their User Dashboard to help them get the most out of their new qualification.

Find out how passing a UKCA Course grants you access to new qualifications!

There’s never been a better time to gain new qualifications with UKCA

Our next course dates in 2021…

Already a qualified coach?

Visit our COVID-19 Coach Resources Helpful Links that could you navigate these difficult, uncertain times.

Sport, music and drama ‘should be part of England’s pupil catch-up’

Extra hours of academic learning – as well as sport, music and drama – will be needed to help England’s pupils make up ground following the pandemic, the new education catch-up tsar says. Sir Kevan Collins said it was important to “act quickly” on making arrangements for the summer and that summer schools “had promise”.

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Children’s sport ‘will be prioritised’ when lockdown eases

The Government is making plans for children’s sport to follow schools in being a national priority when lockdown measures are eased. Oliver Dowden, the Culture Secretary, has said that he will be making the argument to cabinet that “kids’ sport should be the last one into the lockdown and the first out.”

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Sporting Equals launches new terminology resource

Sporting Equals has launched an important terminology resource outlining what language the sport and physical activity sector should use when dealing with or describing racial discrimination and inequality. Understanding what is and is not appropriate is the first step to helping us have more confident and respectful discussions.

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In January we challenged our Cheerleading family to learn famed UKCA chant ‘We Are Proud’ of you in Makaton, a form of sign language used to communicate with people who struggle with verbal communication.

In an effort to make our wonderful sport even more inclusive, we wanted as many of our followers to learn the chant in Makaton and share their videos with us.

The Challenge:

We had some amazing submissions from our Cheerleading family. Here is the final compilation of your wonderful submissions:

Thank you to everyone who submitted their videos, WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!

Last year Playwaze announced they would now support Cheerleading in the UK on their platform. Playwaze are the leading digital platform for managing and participating in grassroots and community sport and physical activity. 

As an established online club management platform, Playwaze are supporting the sport of Cheerleading and its clubs in returning to Cheer safely with a track and trace system in place for you and your members. 

Using the Playwaze Activities feature, your club can:

1. Host your club’s activities and sessions online

Ready to take registrations as part of your club’s Return To Play measures.

2. Advertise your club’s activities and sessions on your website

By embedding an easy-to-use widget on your club’s website provided on the Playwaze Platform.

3. Advertise your club’s sessions on National Activity Finders

Simply by ticking a box when you create your activities and sessions!

4. Track attendance at your club’s activities and sessions online and in the app

Easy to do when you’re on-the-go via the app on your phone, track who attends so you know how popular your sessions are, and so that you know who attended should you need to contact them.

5. Contact your members and session attendees via an app push notification

Using your club community’s News Feed, or via your Activity Chat, reach out to your members and session attendees with any important information or Covid-related updates.

As a club you’ll be able to use – or continue using if you’re already online – Playwaze for free, and you’ll be able to very simply upgrade the features you need unlimited access to online on a monthly or annual online subscription. You can find out more about pricing, including what Free and Unlimited pricing looks like via the UK Cheer partner page.

There’s More!

Furthermore Playwaze recently announced that a number of paid features would be offered free of charge to help clubs through this challenging time.

Great news for your participants and members, who won’t be asked to pay by us!
We’re giving you a free level of access to all features

You’ll be able to manage one repeating activity, one tournament, one league, one ladder, one leaderboard, one challenge, one reward, one course, and volunteering opportunity per community, for absolutely nothing!

Playwaze‘s new feature-based pricing means you only pay for the features you need unlimited access to, monthly or annually.

You can find out more about the new pricing model, including what new Free and Unlimited pricing looks like via their pricing page.

As part of the announcement that the sport of Cheerleading will now be available on Playwaze are offering you a 20% discount on all Playwaze subscriptions you take out for 12 months from your first use of the unique UK Cheer discount code!

To use, click the button below or simply enter the following discount code when prompted:

Enter UKCHEER20OFF at checkout for 20% off!

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Deliver the Best Possible Classes for All Athletes in 2021

Your extended Cheer Family needs your help.

On 1 September 2020 the Hopkins family’s lives changed forever when Did (Dave), husband and dedicated Cheer Dad to three children, Dylan, Lydia and Sydney was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

The Hopkins family now need as much help as they can to raise an estimated £150,000 for pioneering treatment in Germany so they can spend more time with Did. They are desperate for the treatment which can extend his life so he’s able to spend as much time as possible with his family and friends.

You can read the full story here.

As of 20th January 2021, the Hopkins family have raised £40,000. We’re asking our Cheer family to read Dave’s story and if possible donate towards their incredible cause via the families GoFundMe page.