Dan Garbutt Email & Phone Number

Gloucester, GB

United Kingdom

Project lead on the delivery of all ECB national programmes including All Stars Cricket and Dynamos Cricket. This role involves leading on strategy and support factors for a large, dispersed staff and volunteer workforce of 6000+. Responsible for setting the philosophy and participant experience of our national programmes as well as guiding a range of.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Responsible for strategically driving participation growth in kids cricket across The South West of England and Wales as well as working within the Participation and Growth Programme Delivery team on the development of a number of national programmes. The role contributes to the ECB's Inspiring Generations strategy by working alongside County Cricket Board.

A part time role as Head Coach of a high profile University sports club at Oxford University. In addition to guiding, planning and delivering a program of skill development I undertook a key leadership role in the development and expansion of the club during the time that I was in post. During my time in charge we increased the size of the club and.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Providing consultancy services to the RFL's Performance Department developing talent pathways and elite player development in the South West of England. The role involved the following main strands...- FE/College pathway development- Creation of links from the community/schools game as a means to access professional pathways- On-going up skilling and.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

• Managing the community development strategy for the professional club based at the University of Gloucestershire.
• Successfully lead on gaining seven years of funding through the RFL’s “Sky Try” initiative and ongoing maintenance of the relationship, hitting and reporting against sport England targets.
• Consistently delivering in excess of externally defined targets and ongoing development of the strategy to include areas outside of designated structure whilst remaining within budget and delivery timescales.
• Creating and managing the club’s community development strategy and working with a range of partners and staff to ensure a pathway into the game for players, coaches, volunteers and fans.
• Management of 12 community coaches delivering on the programme including developing CPD opportunities and overseeing safeguarding as well as managing work schedules and payments
• Full budget control of the work area as well as sourcing of additional funding through grant schemes and private sponsorship

• Establishing and developing “Bristol Academy Rugby League”, a player development model based at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.
• Recruitment, retention and responsibility for a squad 35+ players participating in up to 16 hours of Rugby League development alongside academic studies.
• Successful in a number of funding bids for projects across a range of local and national programmes as well as sourcing 50% partnership funding for role when funding was threatened.
• Working with a wide range of local and national partners on a variety of projects including the successful bid to host a game and act as a team training venue during the Rugby League World Cup 2013
• Development and ongoing management of work program for 2 coaching staff plus working with Strength and Conditioning and Physiotherapy staff members in developing the programme

• Working as a part of the highly successful national strategy for school sport. Managing projects relating to the development of inter school sport competition in Gloucestershire.
• Multi agency partnership working and proven success of engaging partners within schools, national governing bodies, local sports associations and funding bodies.
• Strategic and holistic approach to developing all aspects of competitions including coaching support, CPD and producing effective exit routes for participants.
• With no additional funding for the post, generating over £10,000 of funding and financial support as well as negotiating large amounts of in kind contributions from partners.
• Consistently achieving targets based on participation throughout a range of groups including a 35% increase in competition participation for young primary school aged pupils.
• Restructuring established organisations to increase efficiency and systems of governance

Coaching with a number of teams on the Harlequins RL scholarship Academy. This included coaching and planning sessions, individual player development and aspects of strength and conditioning. I managed the workload and quality assurance of a team of coaches whilst acting as scholarship head coach.

• A Role within the Oxford University Sports Department creating, developing and administrating volunteering opportunities for students at both the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University.
• Management of the community outreach budget and ongoing reporting against targets linked to government funding for the project.
• Reporting performance to funding organisations and charitable trusts
• Experience of developing and implementing policy for child safeguarding and safety including CRB disclosure and risk management
• Linking with a range of local and regional organisations including county council youth service, school sports partnerships and local disability groups
• Engaging with hard to reach groups through work with young offender, drug rehabilitation and disability organisations

• Working with the Sports Federation and the Societies Guild in order to supply administrative and developmental support to university Sports clubs and Societies.
• Supporting, developing and managing the expectations of 35 sports clubs and more than 70 societies
• Implementation of a system club accreditation and development
• Leading on the University’s health and safety audit for sports clubs

Bsc (Hons), Sport Science With Physical Education

Activities and Societies: Rugby Union Club, Cricket Club

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