Sport for Confidence CIC

In celebration of #AHPSupportWorkerWeek, we are highlighting the incredible contributions of our Occupational Therapy Assistants. Their daily efforts across our delivery sites provide outstanding support to our participants and delivery teams. We wholeheartedly recognise and appreciate everything they contribute to Sport for Confidence! 🙌 Thank you Kerys, Jess, Jess and Jim! 🙏 Swipe through the images below to read what our Occupational Therapists had to say about our fabulous OTA's and the important work they do 👉 #OccupationalTherapyAssistants #OTAs #PromotingGoodHealth #PlayYourPart #BreakingdownBarriers #ReducingHealthInequalities #OccupationalTherapy #PowerofOT Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Our Health Inequalities team are on a mission to make GP surgeries and other community health care services more accessible and inclusive for people living with a learning disability and/or autism. 💚 If you would like to get involved to support us in reducing the health inequalities that exist in society, we'd love to hear from you! 💚 Email us at healthinequalities@sportforconfidence.com to find out more! Kimberley Dutton Amber Brogden #OccupationalTherapy #OTinPrimaryCare #ReducingHealthInequalities #PowerofOT #PromotingGoodHealth #CommunityHealthServices #AccessibleGPSurgeries #PlayYourPart Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System care

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Lovely to catch up with Ali Leigh and Lisa Westhorpe at the #OccupationalTherapyShow #theotshow

Listening to Liz Fletcher and Lisa Westhorpe from Sport for Confidence CIC at #TheOTShow #accessible #physicalactivity #prevention and #enablement

Liz Fletcher and Lisa Westhorpe from Sport for Confidence will be at the The Occupational Therapy Show today! 👋 Their session is in Theatre 1 at 4-4.30pm, on how OTs can promote health through physical activity (spoiler: OTs are already doing this!) Let us know if you’ll be there! 🤩 #OTWeek2024 #TheOTShow #OccupationalTherapy #PhysicalActivity Royal College of Occupational Therapists #PowerofOT

Great to see news of our year-long campaign (supporting Royal College of Occupational Therapists) to raise awareness of the critical role #OccupationalTherapy plays in health, social care, and levelling up society, featured in the latest CIMSPA bulletin 🙌 https://lnkd.in/gTMbbG-4 #PowerofOT #OccupationalTherapists #OTWeek2024 #Health #SocialCare

It's Team Tuesday! 🤩 This week we meet Suzanne Warren who joined Sport for Confidence last month as a Peer Support Worker in the Recover and Reinvent Team. She has always been passionate about sport and physical activity and as a teenager represented Great Britain at the European Team Gymnastics Championships and has also had a successful Para-Swimming career, the highlight being competing in the European Masters Championships in Nice. 🙌 Suzanne is a qualified gymnastics coach as well as a qualified primary school teacher and she has worked as a School Sports co-ordinator and Partnership Development Manager in Westminster. She is an Official Campaigner for The Pituitary Foundation, Essex All Together Ambassador for Active Essex and Founder and Blog Writer of Time To Heal and Time To Heal - Openbook - supporting those with Long Term Health Conditions and Disabilities. Outside of work Suzanne is an avid Ipswich Town FC fan, loves volunteering at a local care home doing arts and craft with the residents, taking walks along the seafront and singing with an online Rock Choir! 🙌 Welcome to Sport for Confidence, Suzanne - we're delighted to have you join us! 🤗 Meet the rest of the team here - https://lnkd.in/eZ9jMzQR #TeamTuesday #MeetTheTeam #PeerSupportWorker #SportForConfidence #Teamwork #PromotingGoodHealth #ReducingHealthInequalities #PlayYourPart

Our #OccupationalTherapist Victoria Cornwell and Coach, Lewis Snow, deliver a fantastic variety of activities on Tuesday's at Clacton Leisure Centre including Strength and Balance, Love To Move, Dance and Multi Sports.🙌 The services they provide foster a strong sense of community and belonging in the local area, supporting residents in enhancing their physical fitness, mental health, wellbeing, and confidence, as well as helping to reduce social isolation. 🙏 If you, or someone you care for, would like to access Sport for Confidence services in Clacton, or if you would like further information, please submit a referral via this link 👉 https://lnkd.in/e7cSzk9j #ReducingHealthInequalities #PromotingGoodHealth #ClactonLeisureCentre Sport England Essex County Council #InclusiveSport #CommunitySpaces #CommunityServices #Inclusion #ReducingSocialIsolation #OccupationalTherapy

On Wednesday morning I journeyed into Marylebone for a breakfast meeting with Richard Harpin & Business Leader on behalf of Sport for Confidence CIC. It was a really empowering, insightful and enjoyable couple of hours listening, storytelling, learning and being curious. As a co-founder in this more 'socially conscious' business, I found myself in slightly alien territory alongside some brilliant humans who are scaling and growing businesses in digital, property, talent, exec search, energy and gift cards. However, the journey to growing any business is often similar, and Richard shared his 8 (+1) lessons with us with practical lived experiences which included some failures, as well as references to other leaders whom he has worked with, learnt from, and grown alongside (made me smile seeing James Watt on the deck!). So I left the session perhaps more confused and definitely more curious, not about what I had heard, but more about what to do next. Why? Because what we do at SfC is really quite simple (and replicable) - placing an OT and a Sports Coach into a leisure centre. It's proven, it's scalable, it's measurable, it's needed, it's topical etc. We currently 'only' do it in one County of England (plus 3 London boroughs), so the market potential is huge. The insight tells us it's needed. The policy directives all point towards things like what we do being the right way - prevention not cure, co-produced, cross-sector, super-professional, systems-led, place-based. I'm still feeling there's too many what ifs, egos, logos and buts.... So let's see what happens next to help myself, Lyndsey, Dan and Jake (and our NEDs) unpick the next chapter...and hopefully alongside the team at Business Leader