A look at the sixteen volunteers who stepped forward through the Get Involved form, and what their availability makes possible.
Sixteen people stepped forward in six days. Three are blue belts on a lead-coach track, seven are white or blue belt assistants, five are junior youth leaders aged eight to eleven, and one is a parent volunteer offering off-mat support. Existing sessions are well-covered; the pattern of availability also suggests a 4pm kids session would be viable if GB Neepsend chose to add one.
Alex Crawshaw (blue belt, lead track) has offered Tue, Thu and Fri at 4pm. That's three days of viable cover immediately. Monday and Wednesday can follow once a second lead is recruited.
Eight volunteers ticked the Saturday morning slot, including Kane, Matthew, Nick, and four youth leaders. More than enough to run a healthy Saturday rota.
Frank Walsh has volunteered as a lead coach at white belt. Enthusiasm is genuine and the commitment (four sessions a week) is meaningful, but the role needs a gentle redirect.
Each volunteer appears in every cell where their day and time slot selections overlap. Click any name to pull their profile into the panel below the grid, or use the filters to isolate a single role group. The 16:00 kids row is highlighted because it represents the clearest opportunity to expand the schedule.
Five observations matter most when Gareth and Nush sit down to build the opening rota. Each one has a direct action attached later in the document.
GB Neepsend doesn't currently run 4pm sessions, but the volunteer pool suggests it's worth considering. Alex Crawshaw (blue belt, lead track) is available Tue, Thu and Fri at 4pm: enough to launch a three-day pilot without stretching existing resources. Mark Gillott can assist on Mon, Tue and Fri, and four of the youth leaders have 4pm capacity. The gap is Monday and Wednesday, both of which need a second lead-capable adult to become viable. That's a recruitment conversation rather than a blocker: one additional blue belt on the lead track fills the week.
Kane is a blue belt on the lead track and the only respondent who ticked both kids slots (16:50 and 17:40) with capacity across Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri plus Saturday morning. His 9 to 5 job limits weekday daytime availability but covers the most important slots of the week. Pair him with Frank and Jordan for Mon–Thu 17:40, with Mark as an assistant on Mon/Tue.
Laura Moorcroft explicitly asked to help with the women's class and offered to cover Molly Vellacott when Molly cannot teach. Molly has separately offered one Friday a month. Together that is the nucleus of a stable Friday women's class rota, which is strategically valuable for female recruitment. Neither needs to be the sole coach; rotate them.
Only George Walsh and Mark Gillott ticked this slot. George's availability is contingent on a new job he has not yet started, so in practice it is Mark only. If midday adult sessions are part of the commercial plan, this is a recruitment gap rather than a volunteer problem. Worth flagging now and addressing with outreach, not rota reshuffling.
Three Walshes submitted the form: George (adult, blue belt), Frank (adult, white belt, asked for lead role), and Junior (eight years old, submitted by Amy Wilson as youth leader). Worth checking the family relationship with Gareth and Nush. If they are related, it changes how the conversations are sequenced and how future family-rate considerations might work.
Each of the sixteen respondents, grouped by role category. Availability is shown as submitted. Contact details come directly from the form. The recommendation on each card is a suggested conversation, not a commitment.