Bring Little Sticks to your school

Little Sticks, a Golfers Give Back programme, gives your school an inclusive, ready-to-teach golf unit for PE, with equipment, training, lesson plans and a local mentor to help you get started. No golf experience needed, for teachers or pupils.

What your school receives.

Made for schools. built to last.

  • Equipment

    Your school receives Little Sticks equipment bags with enough inclusive, colourful kit to teach a whole class at once, so every pupil stays active. The equipment arrives in time for your teacher training, so your staff can start teaching as soon as they’ve finished it. It stays with your school, ready to use year after year.

  • Training

    Your teachers join a practical training session with staff from other schools in your local network. It’s designed for all levels of experience, so no golf knowledge is needed. The session builds the confidence to deliver fun, safe golf activities in PE lessons and as an after-school club.

  • Resources

    Every teacher who attends training takes away a Little Sticks Educator’s Guide and a pack of activity cards. Your school also gets online access to Complete PE, providing you will full units of work and more Little Sticks resources, so planning lessons is simple.

  • Mentor Support

    Each school is matched with a local Little Sticks mentor and receives three support visits in its first 12 months of delivery. After each visit, your mentor gives feedback to help your teachers grow in confidence. You’ll always have someone to turn to with questions.

How we bring schools on board

Children with their launchers (golf clubs) hitting balls at our inflatable golf target range

Joining as part of a local network

We bring schools into Little Sticks in local networks rather than one at a time. This means we can train teachers from several nearby schools together, and match each network with a mentor who knows the area and can support every school in it.

Because of this, we can’t always start with a school straight away. When you register your interest, we’ll add your school to our waiting list and get in touch when we’re building a network in your area.

Part of a trust?

Let us know on the registration form below. If your school belongs to a multi-academy trust or group of schools, we may be able to bring several of your schools on board together, which can help us reach your area sooner.

 FAQs

 

  • No. Teachers and pupils need no previous golf experience. The training, lesson plans and mentor support give your staff everything they need.

  • Little Sticks is designed for pupils from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 4 (ages 7 to 16). Each skill builds on the last, so pupils can start as complete beginners. Younger pupils in Key Stage 1 can also take part and work through the same steps, though they may need a little longer to master each skill.

  • No. Little Sticks is free for schools. Golfers Give Back uses money raised by golfers, supporters and partners to provide the equipment, training, resources and mentor support at no cost to you.

  • It depends on when we’re building a network in your area. Registering your interest is the best way to make sure we know about your school.

Register your interest

Register your school’s interest

Tell us a little about your school and we’ll be in touch when we’re bringing schools on board near you.

Girl at our festival putting a ball towards a sticky flag target

Our commitment to safeguarding:

Keeping children safe

The safety and wellbeing of every child who takes part in Little Sticks comes first. Because our programme is delivered in schools, we work alongside your school’s own safeguarding policies and procedures, never instead of them. Your school stays responsible for safeguarding on its premises, and anyone delivering on our behalf follows your procedures as well as our own.

What this means in practice

  • Working with your school. Any concern raised during a Little Sticks session is reported straight away to your school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead, as well as to ours.

  • Trained, checked people. Our staff, mentors and volunteers have the appropriate safeguarding checks, receive safeguarding training, and are expected to recognise and report any concern immediately.

  • Clear responsibilities. Our Designated Safeguarding Lead oversees safeguarding day to day, and a named trustee provides oversight at Board level.

  • Safe festivals and events. Every activity, from school sessions to festivals, is risk-assessed.

  • Images and data. We only use photos or videos of children with the right consent, and we never publish a child’s full name alongside their school.

Have a concern?
If you have a safeguarding concern about our programme or anyone working on our behalf, please contact our Designated Safeguarding Lead at alex.coppinger@golfersgiveback.org. If a child is in immediate danger, call 999.