Our History

Coach My Sport (CiC) received funding from School for Social Entrepreneurs Scotland to start a pilot programme whose business model was to use the profit from the coaching to fund the social side of the CiC which was to eventually deliver an employability programme.

Coach My Sport was incorporated as CiC with Companies House on the 26^th September 2017 but only started trading in January 2018. Towards the end of 2018 after receiving additional funding from Firstport and Young Start we launched the CMS Academy with our first cohort starting in January 2019 with Keith Brown coming along to open the Academy. We initially used the Education Through Cashback (ETC) modules from Scottish Sport Futures as the Academy was very much sport orientated.

This business model worked well until Covid and lockdown which meant this was no longer a viable business model.

Since returning from lock down we have evolved the programme and we no longer run coaching classes and our Academy has had a name change and we are now ACTS (Adapted Curriculm Training and Support) Scotland CiC. The Academy has now moved away from ETC modules and we now have the Skills For Success Programme which offers a wider scope for development of young people who might not be that inclined to follow a sporting career.

In the past few years our Dkills For Success programme for young people has gained momentum and is now a 160 hours of training.