UK Coaching
Ben Dickens has a strong work experience in the technology field. Ben is currently the Director of Technology at UK Coaching since October 2023. Prior to this, they held the position of Head of Technology at the same company starting from May 2017. Before joining UK Coaching, Ben worked at Pegler Yorkshire as an IT Project Manager from January 2012 to April 2017, and as an IT Developer from April 2005 to January 2012. Ben started their career as an IT Manager at Woolbro Distribution T/as Rapide Products from May 2001 to April 2005.
Ben Dickens attended Leeds Beckett University from 1998 to 2001, where they received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computing: Systems, Analysis, and Design.
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We are UK Coaching. Through our commitment to people, passion and progress, we’re taking the lead in coaching excellence. Our mission is to put coaching at the heart of physical activity and sport. Coaching is in our DNA. For more than 30 years, alongside our partners, we have provided the coaching workforce with the skills and knowledge they need to make a positive difference. We’ve also supported our partners to do the same. We’re now widening our scope to do this on a broader scale. How? By adopting a wider definition of coaching and extending our reach into new markets where great coaching makes a difference every day. We’re here to: * Raise the profile of coaching so that it is recognised for the wider benefits it brings to society and individuals. * Help our partners create coaching systems to deliver a fit for purpose workforce that better reflects society. * Make coaching easier to get into and stay involved in. * Supply the coaching workforce with the information they need to be participant focused. * Be a hub of research excellence for coaching * Help coaches feel better connected, more knowledgeable and confident. * Be central to the sport and physical activity landscape. We’ll run an effective and efficient organisation. * Encourage technology to enable coaches and coaching. In England, we support National Governing Bodies of Sport and County Sports Partnerships as well as many other organisations across the sport and physical activity landscape. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, we work with the three Home Country Sports Councils.