Raise Your Game series returns with Women’s conference

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Kick It Out is delighted to announce the schedule for the first two Raise Your Game events in 2018, supported by the Premier League, as the #RYG18 series kicks off with the Women’s conference at Wembley Stadium in March.  

Raise Your Game is Kick It Out’s unique mentoring programme which helps provide opportunities for people who aspire to work within the football industry. Over the course of 2017, more than 500 participants were involved in the series through four bespoke events.

In partnership with UCFB, a Higher Education institution offering undergraduate and postgraduate university degrees and executive education in the football business, sport and events industries, the organisation will host the fifth Women’s conference on Monday 12 March.

A month later, the National Conference will return to Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium for the fourth consecutive year. The conference, set for Monday 23 April, will welcome over 300 mentees to the home of the Gunners as industry professionals from a broad range of fields come together to offer mentoring advice to the next generation of the football workforce.

You can find further information on both events in March and April below.

To find out more about the series’ activity from last year, read the Raise Your Game 2017 review here.

Women’s Raise Your Game

The Women’s Raise Your Game conference is set to return on Monday 12 March at Wembley Stadium, in partnership with UCFB.

Women’s Raise Your Game is a mentoring event designed for those women who wish to forge a career in football, or explore alternative career opportunities in the game, as Kick It Out continues its efforts to diversify football’s workforce and ensure the game is reflective of society in 2018.

Register for the Women’s conference here.

National Raise Your Game Conference

The eighth National conference (#RYG18) will once again welcome over 300 aspiring individuals to Emirates Stadium on Monday 23 April.

The conference offers attendees one-to-one mentoring which provides a detailed insight from those currently working within the football industry, and an opportunity to discuss the journeys they have taken to get where they are today. Mentees will also have a chance to take part in a variety of careers-focused workshops.

Mentoring areas will include Media and Communications, Grassroots and Community, Coaching and Management, Football Business and Administration, Player Services, Sport Science and Refereeing.

Register for the National conference here.

For further information on the above events email Events@kickitout.org

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