Support your organisation with EMD UK guides and sector guidance
Download our free guides to help support your organisation across all areas of group exercise delivery.
Log into our EMD UK resource hub to access guidance into safe bather loads and instructor-to-client ratios for programmed water-based exercise, ensuring alignment with UK Health and Safety legislation and Awarding Body standards.
This guide addresses everything you need to know about managing music in your group exercise classes, from understanding legal obligations, which digital providers to use, and what rights are involved.
This guide brings together the physical, environmental, and spatial layouts needed for indoor cycling in the UK.
This document serves as your essential guide to delivering group exercise classes with infants and children under 5 successfully.
The ‘On Your Side’ toolkit, developed by the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales in partnership with BSI and Chasing the Stigma, has been developed to help sport organisations and individuals build the knowledge, confidence, and practical approaches they need to contribute meaningfully to suicide prevention.
Sport can provide vital connection and support at times when people need it most – times when they’re feeling pressure, loss or even despair.
On Your Side was born from a clear message from the sports sector and has been shaped by those working within it every step of the way. Whatever your role – athlete, coach, parent, official or supporter – you may be the person who notices that someone is struggling. You could be the one who starts an honest conversation, and who helps that person to find the support they need. The Toolkit gives you clear, practical guidance to do exactly that. It will help you to better understand suicide, learn how to have that conversation and to find out how you can take action.
Feel confident in your shared responsibility to keep people safe and ensure your classes are safe, inclusive, and professionally delivered with our free guidance for all EMD UK members and industry organisations.
Whether you’re working with adults, children or mixed groups, safeguarding is about recognising when someone may be at risk, knowing what to do, and acting appropriately. Safeguarding means protecting people’s health, wellbeing and rights, and ensuring they are free from harm, abuse and neglect.
In partnership with Sport England, CIMSPA and ukactive, Aspire and InstructAbility have created three guides to create more accessible and inclusive training and workplaces for disabled people in the leisure sector.
The evidence-based guidance is based on research with disabled people and those involved in leisure sector training, recruitment, and employment.
Guide A is for disabled people wanting to become qualified fitness professionals; gain other industry-specific fitness and leisure qualifications; and / or gain voluntary or paid employment in the fitness industry.
This guide is also a useful reference for an individual or organisation that advises disabled people about training and employment.
This Guide B is for organisations that deliver training and/or conducts assessments for fitness
and leisure industry relevant qualifications or an organisation that awards and/or quality
assures fitness and leisure industry relevant qualifications.
This guide focuses on the accessibility and inclusivity of the training for disabled learners.
This Guide C is for organisations seeking to: increase the number of disabled people employed within your organisation; offer work-based opportunities such as work experience, placements and apprenticeships to disabled people; increase your disabled customer base; and / or become an inclusive and disability confident employer.
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