Founded in 1999 to provide professional sports coaching to school children in London and the southeast, today SCL is one of the UK’s leading independent providers of education through sport. Through its two core divisions - SCL Education & Training and SCL School Sport & Children's Activities - SCL offers a wide-range of engaging, forward-thinking and successful programmes.
Education and work-based learning for young adults aged 14-19 years old including Apprenticeships, Traineeships and study programmes, delivered in conjunction with schools, colleges and employers.
The Sports Academy study programme for young adults aged 16-18 years old combines full-time education with sporting excellence and is delivered in partnership with Professional and amateur clubs.
Our mission is to improve the lives of children and young people through sport-based learning and education, coaching and childcare; creating a legacy in the communities we serve by:
·Equipping youngsters from all walks of life with the skills and motivation to lead active, healthy and happy lives and make a positive contribution to society.
· Allowing those with a passion for sport to gain the vocational qualifications they need to pursue a sporting career leading to employment, Further and Higher Education.
·Providing parents with trusted childcare of excellent, fully assessed quality where their children are being inspired to lead an active, healthy lifestyle.
·Working in partnership with primary, infant and junior schools to improve the quality of their PE provision, sporting programmes, and curriculum delivery.
·Pursuing social and environmental policies that ensure we are a social asset to the communities we serve.
We strive to deliver excellence in everything we do. Our high standards and focus on quality are recognised by those we work with and has led to SCL being:
·A government-approved post-16 education provider in the sport & active leisure sector, receiving OFSTED GRADE 2 GOOD
· Engaged with over 100 colleges, employers, sports clubs and universities as programme partners
·Matrix accredited
·An Ofsted-registered childcare provider receiving OFSTED GRADE 1 OUTSTANDING
·A trusted partner of over 130 primary schools and nurseries delivering school sport, performing arts and childcare
· Awarded the FA Charter Standard for our holiday clubs
OUR CORE VALUES DEFINE OUR CULTURE
Our core values are central to everything we do, we believe passionately in them, and want to recruit people whose personal values are aligned to our company core values.
We actively recruit against our values, live and breathe them through our working lives, and provide strong career paths for those who excel in demonstrating them.
Our core values are:
PASSIONATE
…about the potential and ambition of every individual we work with.
INSPIRATIONAL
….embracing the important position we fulfil as role models.
EXCELLENCE IN EVERYTHING
…..ensuring you cannot find a better product or service in our field.
RELIABLE
….dependable from day one and throughout each and every relationship