Meet The Team

Following a career as a professional footballer, Steve moved to coaching, his vision to inspire children saw the creation of R&D in 2007. Since it began coaching football, R&D has gone from strength to strength and now coaches all sports in primary schools, school clubs, runs highly successful holiday courses and parties and also in 2017 saw the launch of R&D Dance. He is our highest qualified coach and is qualified not only in all sports coached, but also has several SEN...

Kerry has a degree in Musical Theatre and brings a wealth of experience she is qualified in tap, ballet, modern and musical theatre.

Kerry also used to be an accomplished dancer who is looking to pass on her experience to the future talent!

Matthew who joined our team in 2018 is a fantastic sports coach and is excellent at getting the best out of the children he coaches.

Stephen is one of R&D's longest serving coaches. Stephen enjoys creating new games for his sessions and trying them out with an enthusiastic group. Steven's strength is football, giving the children a depth of knowledge of games to play, ways to help them improve from session to session.

Sarah joined the team in July 2019 and is a fantastic addition to the team sue to her many years of experience of working in schools. As well as being a qualified sports coach Sarah is also a fully qualified primary school teacher.

Dean joins our coaching team after attending our courses as a player for over 10 years! Dean has now gained his level 1 football coaching qualification and is looking to progress into the sports coaching industry.

New to the team in January 2020 we are very excited for Chris's future with R&D.

Nick joined R&D in January 2020, he's showed great strength in coaching during his taster sessions and we cannot wait for the new year.

Steph joined the team in 2020. Steph has a wealth of experience in working with children in early years and with additional needs. A qualified hockey coach, she is already proving to be a dedicated popular member of the team.

New to the coaching team, Kieron has been a young helper at R&D for many years. A level 1 Football Coach Kieron is great enthusiastic member of the team.

Nathan has only recently joined us but has made an instant impact with schools. His high quality coaching skills mixed with his communication skills with the children has seen some very positive feedback from schools in just his first few months with us.

Joseph has recently joined our team of coaches and we are very excited to have him on board.