Nominate your BSAC teacher for a training award

Had an excellent expertise with a BSAC diving or snorkelling teacher? Nominate them for the UK Teaching Awards 2025!

Nominations at the moment are being accepted for the 2025 Awards, providing the proper alternative to have fun our volunteer coaches – instructors – who’re making an actual distinction in communities throughout the UK. 

Whether or not they’re inspiring younger learners, championing inclusivity, or main the best way in environmental sustainability, these awards recognise the unbelievable impression of instructors at each stage.

This yr the organisers are introducing a brand-new Inexperienced Award, honouring coaches and organisations who’re embedding sustainability into their observe, an essential step as we glance to the way forward for sport and bodily exercise.

The UK Teaching Awards are essentially the most prestigious celebration of teaching excellence within the UK. They spotlight the dedication, ardour, and transformative energy of educators who go above and past to counterpoint lives and communities. 

There are 10 award classes in whole: Group Coach of the Yr (Kids and Younger Folks), Group Coach of the Yr (Adults), Younger Coach of the Yr, Change a Life Award, Expertise Improvement Coach of the Yr, Excessive Efficiency Coach of the Yr, On-line Coach of the Yr, Inclusive Teaching Award, Coach Training and Improvement Practitioner of the Yr, and the brand new Inexperienced Award. 

Mark Gannon, CEO of UK Teaching, encourages everybody to become involved:

The UK Teaching Awards give us the prospect to listen to highly effective tales of coaches going above and past to make sport inclusive, accessible, and life altering. If a coach has helped you, your membership, or your group, that is your probability to say thanks.

Mary Tetley, BSAC CEO mentioned:

Instructors are vastly valued at BSAC for the superb work they do to show scuba diving and snorkelling to such excessive requirements. Please vote on your BSAC teacher within the Teaching Awards and assist present appreciation on behalf of the complete organisation for our sensible volunteer instructors.

Nominations shut on Tuesday 2 September 2025, with the Excessive-Efficiency class remaining open till Thursday 11 September. All entries might be reviewed via an impartial and neutral judging course of.

Nominate your teaching hero immediately at on the UK Teaching Awards web site.