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Future Cheer Accepted Coaches

Qualifications
If you hold a quali-cation other than the quali-cations listed below, or are based outside the UK and hold a cheerleading quali-cation local to
your region, please contact us via the contact form (select coaches info) for more information.

Enhanced DBS Required

we request for an upload of your certi-cate as well as a DBS number. 

All coaches aged 18 years and older should hold a clear Enhanced DBS check. This includes coaches of University or Adult only teams. It is best
practice for your Enhanced DBS to be redone every three years. In order for Future Cheer to issue a coaches pass, you will need to provide the
DBS check number for an Enhanced DBS check taken within 3 years of the date of the event that you wish to attend as a coach.

// COACH TYPES

1. Team Lead coach

The main coach responsible for the team and for all other coaches present with the team. For CHEER: Team Lead coach must have a level
appropriate quali-cation (level 4 team, level 4 qual). For DANCE: Team Lead coach must hold an accepted dance quali-cation.
Any Team Lead coaches will be asked during their registration to provide a valid DBS-check.

2. Assistant coach

Any adult coaches under the supervision of the Team Lead coach, this includes cheer coaches, tumble coaches and dance coaches. These
coaches must hold an appropriate quali-cation for their role, but are not required to be at the level of the team (i.e. cheer assistant coach can
have a level 3 qual for a level 4 team, a tumble coach can have a british gymnastics qual). The role of assistant coach allows for cheer coaches-
in-training to gain experience working with a higher level team before they qualify to lead, and it allows specialized coaches to come in and
assist teams in whatever their specialty is.
Any Assistant coaches will be asked during their registration to provide a valid DBS-check.

3. Junior coach

Any coach aged 12-16yrs assisting under the supervision of the Team Lead coach. Must have a Junior coaching quali-cation as listed: either
BGU, BCQ, UCC, or Dance Leaders (dance only). Junior coaches are only permitted to accompany teams up to Level 2. (clari-cation: a junior
coach under the supervision of a quali-ed Team Lead coach may not assist a level 3 or above team into warm-up)

// ACCEPTED QUALIFICATIONS

Cheer Level 1

BGU Level 1&2

BCQ Level 1-3

United Cheer Credentials level 1&2

UKCA Foundations Tumbling Skills + UKCA Foundations Stunt Skills (must have both)

ICU Black (Coaching Skill Credentials) for minimum Novice + previous quali-cation. Note ICU qualiDcations are ONLY accepted as a renewal on a

previous non-ICU coaching qualiDcation from this list.

Cheer Level 2

BGU Level 1&2

BCQ Level 1-3

United Cheer Credentials level 1&2

UKCA Foundations Tumbling Skills + UKCA Foundations Stunt Skills (must have both)

ICU Black (Coaching Skill Credentials) for minimum Novice + previous quali-cation. Note ICU qualiDcations are ONLY accepted as a renewal on a

previous non-ICU coaching qualiDcation from this list.

Cheer Level 3

BGU Level 3

BCQ Level 1-3

United Cheer Credentials level 3-5

UKCA Advanced Cheerleading Skills + UKCA Intermediate Stunt Skills (must have both)

ICU Black (Coaching Skill Credentials) for minimum Median + previous quali-cation. Note ICU qualiDcations are ONLY accepted as a renewal on

a previous non-ICU coaching qualiDcation from this list.

Cheer Level 4

BGU Level 4-5-6

United Cheer Credentials level 3-5

UKCA Advanced Cheerleading Skills + UKCA Intermediate Stunt Skills (must have both)

ICU Black (Coaching Skill Credentials) for minimum Advanced + previous quali-cation. Note ICU qualiDcations are ONLY accepted as a renewal

on a previous non-ICU coaching qualiDcation from this list.

Cheer Level 5

BGU Level 4-5-6

United Cheer Credentials level 3-5

ICU Black (Coaching Skill Credentials) for minimum Elite + previous quali-cation. Note ICU qualiDcations are ONLY accepted as a renewal on a

previous non-ICU coaching qualiDcation from this list.

Cheer Level 6

BGU Level 4-5-6

ICU Black (Coaching Skill Credentials) for minimum Elite + previous quali-cation. Note ICU qualiDcations are ONLY accepted as a renewal on a

previous non-ICU coaching qualiDcation from this list.

Cheer Level 7

BGU Level 7

ICU Black (Coaching Skill Credentials) for minimum Premier + previous quali-cation. Note ICU qualiDcations are ONLY accepted as a renewal on

a previous non-ICU coaching qualiDcation from this list.

Tiny Novice divisions

Any accepted quali-cation for Level 1

BGU Foundations

Dance Divisions

BGU Pom & Jazz

BGU Hip Hop

ICU Black Pom + previous quali-cation **

ICU Black Hip Hop + previous quali-cation **

ICU Black Jazz + previous quali-cation **

ICU Black High Kick + previous quali-cation **

IDTA Diploma

** note ICU quali-cations are ONLY accepted as a renewal on a previous non-ICU coaching quali-cation

// ADDITIONAL ACCEPTED QUALIFICATIONS for JUNIOR and ASSISTANT coaches

Junior coaches

BGU 12-16 

BGU 12-16 Hip Hop

BGU 12-16 Pom & Jazz

BGU Foundations

BCQ 12-15

United Cheer Credentials Assistant Coaches Course for Junior Coaches

Sports Leaders Dance Leadership Quali-cation

Assistant coaches

If a team registers for an event with cheer teams/stunt groups and they have at least one coach who has an accepted cheer quali-cation, we
also allow additional coaches to have a warmup pass if they hold a British Gymnastics quali-cation in the following discipline:

Men’s/Women’s Artistic Gymnastics

Acrobatic Gymnastics

Tumbling

TeamGym

Rhythmic Gymnastics and Trampolining quali-cations will not be accepted.

// OTHER INFORMATION

Renewals

The following certi-cations will be accepted as a valid renewal on an existing accepted quali-cation; proof of the existing [expired] quali-cation
must be provided alongside the certi-cation, and the renewal must be completed within 3 months of the existing quali-cation’s expiration
date.

BCA CheerCRED all levels

BGU Renewal

United Cheer Credentials

The following certi-cations are not accepted as valid quali-cations or renewals.

Legacy TCI CheerLEAD Level 1&2

If your quali-cation was completed at level 5 before the level 5-6 split, please contact your quali-cation provider to check whether your
quali-cation can be updated to rekect these changes.

If the quali-cation you hold does not have an expiry date and it was taken over 3 years ago, we strongly recommend renewing
your quali-cations. If your quali-cation does not have an expiry date and is more than 6 years old, we require you to renew your quali-cations
with one of the providers listed above. This is in recognition of the changing nature of the sport and to ensure safe coaching and continued
professional development.

In addition to the above, we oler a 6 month grace period to new coaches to comply with the above requirements. If a coach does not meet the
above requirements then they will be issued with a 6 month temporary pass which will be replaced with a full coaches pass once a
quali-cation certi-cate compliant with the above is uploaded to the coach’s pro-le on the registration system.

If you only hold a temporary pass you cannot be a Team Lead coach.

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