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Click here to return to newsletter articles.Gym Buddy Scheme Training Online
Volunteers, ‘Gym Buddies’ recruited to accompany disabled users within your IFI Site can now access Disability Equality Training online through the EFDS website www.efds.co.uk. As an IFI site if you are taking part in the Gym Buddy Scheme you can now provide Gym Buddies with the option of completing their Disability Equality Training on paper or online. If you chose the online service you will direct them to the training via the EFDS website allowing them to complete the worksheets in their own time.
The best news is that the course is ‘free’ of charge exclusively for IFI Gym Buddies and is currently being subsidised through the Department of Health funding to deliver the Scheme.
The e-learning tool is based on the Level 1 Disability Equality Training and provides Gym Buddies with relevant information about disability to enable them to support disabled gym users more effectively. Students work through a series of six worksheets to complete the course. Worksheets are completed simultaneously and cover the following areas:-
- The Disability Discrimination (DDA)
- Communication, Etiquette and Behaviour
- The Social Model of Disability
- Language and Terminology
- The Benefits of Exercise
- Barriers
A ‘password’ and ‘username’ has been set up for you to explore the online training and become familiar with its contents. Follow the instructions below:-
- Go to www.efds.co.uk
- Click on ‘Training’ on the left hand tool bar
- Click on ‘Gym Buddy Training’
- Click on ‘Login’ in the top right hand corner
- Enter ‘Username’: IFI Site
- ‘Password’: gymbuddy
- Click on ‘Student Desktop’ on the left hand tool bar and then ‘My Courses’
- Finally click on ‘Lesson Structure‘, and then ‘View’ to read through each fact and worksheet in turn.
To access the training Gym Buddies ‘Register’ as a new student and follow the same process as above creating their own unique ‘Username’ and ‘Password’. They will be manually enrolled by the webmaster once it has been verified with their IFI Site that they are a Gym Buddy.
If you require any further information about the online training or any aspect of the Gym Buddy Scheme please contact the National Project Officer; Jules Twells, Inclusive Fitness Initiative, EFDS Inclusive Fitness, c/o Sir John Beckwith Building, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU.
Tel: 01509 226137 (m) 07921 973398 (add prefix 18001 to access BT Typetalk) or email: jtwells@efds.co.uk
