For Coaches, Clubs and Sports That Want to Stand Out

Competence helps NGBs and Clubs raise standards, reduce risk and prove impact - with structured tools for club assurance, coach revalidation, development logging, and workforce planning. Built with and for the sport and physical activity sector.
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Common Problems

Are These Gaps Holding Back Your Impact?

We hear consistently from NGBs of these problems:

No consistent visibility of club compliance or risk
Evidence missing for funding, planning or safeguarding
No scalable or auditable coach revalidation process
Coach development stops after qualification
No shared view of workforce roles, skills or progression
Our Solution

Three Core Tools. One Smart Platform.

Purpose-built to help you raise standards, recognise development and understand your workforce.
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Club Assurance

Give clubs a simple, scalable way to self-assess, upload evidence, and meet key standards - while giving NGBs the oversight, benchmarking, and support tools to raise quality across the network.
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Professional Recognition

Support low-admin, flexible revalidation using real evidence from day-to-day coaching. Build trust, reduce burden, and ensure every coach stays current, competent, and aligned to your expectations.
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Coach Development

Recognise learning that happens beyond formal qualifications. Log CPD, microcredentials and mentoring, and map each coach’s growth against national frameworks or role-specific development plans.
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Workforce Intelligence

View live workforce data to track strengths, gaps, compliance, and succession. Build the full picture - by role, region, or organisation - to grow a skilled, diverse and future-ready workforce across your sport.
Raise Standards - and Prove It

Club Assurance

Support your clubs to meet key requirements - and give your organisation the oversight to monitor, benchmark and improve.

Self-Assessments Made Simple

Clubs complete structured checks to assess their policies, practices and environment.

Evidence You Can Trust

Upload, version and review key documents like safeguarding policies and staff records.

Dashboards That Drive Action

Get visual insights across regions or programmes - with filters by risk, rating or staff change.

Full Audit Trail

Track updates, comments and compliance status - all backed by secure versioning.
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Flexible Recognition. Clear Standards.

Professional Recognition

Support recognition that fits real practice - with options that reduce admin, build trust and raise standards.

Role-Aligned Revalidation Tasks

Set tailored revalidation tasks based on each coach’s qualification and job role, ensuring submissions are relevant, meaningful and mapped to key competencies.

Observation-Based Approvals

Approvers can confirm observed revalidation activity through live or recorded practice - no uploads needed.
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Self-Assessed Submissions

Approvers can access self-assessed revalidation activity quickly and securely from anywhere - with clear prompts, smart status updates and minimal admin.

Automated Reminders & Dashboards

Receive automatic prompts for expiry, overdue tasks, and non-compliance - so nothing gets missed and every coach stays on track.
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Coach Development

Recognise Growth Beyond Qualifications

Most learning happens on the job - but it’s rarely tracked or recognised. Our tools help coaches log informal development, upload evidence and reflect on progress over time, giving NGBs a clearer view of growth and engagement.
CPD events, mentoring and peer collaboration
Microcredentials or e-learning modules
Club duties like session planning or shadowing
Self-reflection and evidence uploads
Role-specific development plans with visual journey maps
See the Full Picture for the First Time

Workforce Intelligence

Track strengths, gaps, compliance and development across roles, regions and organisations.
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Capability Mapping

View workforce strengths, gaps, and competency levels - by job role, region, or programme.
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Career Pathways

Define and promote progression routes across roles and environments - from grassroots to elite.
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Strategic Planning

Identify trends, track development plans, and build data-driven strategies for recruitment and retention.
Why Competence?

Where Sport, Development and Education Converge

Competence isn’t a generic LMS or a bolt-on club tool. It’s a platform shaped by decades of hands-on experience in elite and grassroots sport, education delivery and workforce development - with a deep understanding of what makes NGBs and their networks work.

Sector-Aligned by Design

Developed with NGBs, clubs and education providers - reflecting the realities of sport and learning on the ground.

Built on Education Experise

Deep roots in apprenticeship, vocational and adult learning delivery - not just tech for tech’s sake.

Structured, Not Rigid

Configurable to your pathways, frameworks and assurance needs, without compromising on governance or consistency.

Proven In Practice

Deployed across high-profile sport systems - from elite clubs to community settings - delivering outcomes at scale.

Why Competence?

Trusted. Tested. Built for Sport and Learning.

We’ve spent years working where sport, education, and workforce development intersect - delivering purpose-built solutions for governing bodies, clubs, and coaches across the UK.

3,000+
Active Learners Supported

Across apprenticeships, short courses and professional programmes.

70+
Clubs & Organisations Engaged

From national sport systems to local community settings.

15y+
Experience in Education

Including apprenticeships, study programmes and adult learning.

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Major Governing Bodies/Agencies

Including EFL, UKAD, RFL & MOD