Darkside Rising CIC

Huge thanks to British Weight Lifting for awarding Shantelle a coaching scholarship! She will be completing Level 1 and Level 2 Coaching Olympic Weightlifting qualifications over the summer 🏋️‍♀️

https://britishweightlifting.org/article/british-weight-lifting-foundation-awards-coaching-scholarship-2026?mc_cid=788afe50ee&mc_eid=f6a92d5cb8

Time for a quick update from Shantelle's Fellowship 🐈‍⬛

Here's the next photo elicitation from my research process. I'm writing more about each of the photos, and what they mean to me, ready for a new research page on the website. In the mean time, I like how each person viewing this will come to their own ideas and perceptions on what these photos convey.

A massive thank you to everyone who has taken part in the research so far. I will be organising some more interviews soon, and talking about the initial analysis. I'm also spending a lot of time thinking how the findings can be integrating into the new Training Centre and our teaching of student physical activity instructors 🩶

If you work for a community organisation in Lincolnshire who would like to integrate physical activity into their work, drop Belle an email on [email protected] for our funded training opportunities!

In preparation for the Community Training Centre launching in March, we are now an Active IQ Approved Centre! Active IQ is one of the UK's leading awarding organisations for the active leisure and wellbeing sector and is regulated by Ofqual.

We will be delivering their Level 3 Diploma in Gym Instructing and Personal Training, with additional modules in trauma-informed care, reflective practice and optional Darkside placements in our specialist adaptive strength training and physical activity programmes ❤️