I have a number of roles at the club but my main role for the Leeds Rugby Foundation is to manage the Leeds Rhinos Community Team. This means I am responsible for liaising with my colleagues to make sure we as a department achieve excellence in everything we do, whether this is introducing Rugby League to Primary School children or organizing a huge event like Run with the Rhinos.

Although I'm a volunteer my official title is Schools' Administrator which means I'm responsible for liaising with schools to organise coaching sessions, assemblies and anything schools' ask of us. My hours vary from week to week - this is my average week.

MONDAY

Not the most interesting of starts I'm afraid, office day! After a busy end to last week I'm having a catch up on all those little jobs that seem to stack up on you.

It's the second week into the New Year and I am full optimism. The year ended well after lots of hard work by everyone who produced some great results and the festive break was certainly well deserved at the Foundation. Everyone is getting stuck back into work.

Well it's the week before Christmas and everyone else in the world seems to be on shut down, but not the Leeds Rugby Foundation! My week started off with a great meeting with Jo from Sovereign Healthcare Charitable Trust to talk about how we might work together in the future and there are some very exciting opportunities!

Monday...Up and away early for a Primary school cluster meeting at St Barts with Charlie Piatt and Jonny Roberts, spoke about primary school coaching in Armley and Wortley, engaging NVQ students in community coaching...brill for me, means I can assess them in a work placement situation...bingo all going ahead in spring....much needed coffee was welcome too to keep me going.

A Week in the life of...................

Here is a brief insight into some of the work that our Connecting Communities Officer Starr Zaman does.

So it's been a busy week for the Foundation. Monday started with a dull wet trip up to Settle Middle School. However the enthusiasm of all the children made up for it in the driving rain.