Learning leadership with the FA

The FA's Young Leaders Camp is a week-long residential course that gives participants skills they can take back to their communities and local teams.

It is just one of the opportunities that the BBC Your Game network helps young people take up once the festivals have been packed up and put away for the winter.

This year eleven of those learning about team building, coaching, futsal, sports science and much more at Warwick University were put in touch with the scheme by Your Game.

We caught up with three of them as they came to the end of their second day.

Adam Leighton, 16, was part of the Nacro team that reached the quarter-finals of last year's event in Solent and was encouraged to apply for the Young Leaders scheme by Dom Weir, a member of the Your Game community network.

"People are really friendly and welcoming"

"Its been amazing stuff. So far we have learned all sorts of new warm-up techniques and about key roles around the game such as linesmen," he said.

Mike Jones, 17, also got involved with Your Game through crime prevention charity Nacro and, although his team was less successful than Adam's at last year's festivals, he has been learning the techniques to take revenge this time around.

"Learning about goalkeeping coaching has been really good. Its not something I had done before," he said.

"I want to be a football coach for my career. I moved to Bournemouth a year ago and have been doing some volunteer coaching with 8-13 year-olds in my community."

Coming from the other end of England, Amin Kashy, also 17, is a coach at Grainger Park Boys Club in Scotswood, Newcastle.

He also works in the West End of the city as part of the Hat-Trick Project which sets up games and training for young people in Arthur's Hill, Cruddas Park, Rye Hill and Elswick.

"I have enjoyed it all to be honest. There are about 100 of us Young Leaders here, I only knew one other person here, but the atmosphere with everyone here has been really good. People are really friendly and welcoming," he said.

The course comes to an end on Friday 17 July.

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