Alan Watkinson taught Physical Education in West London for 18 years. He now leads a School Sport Partnership in the London Borough of Hounslow. The organisation is branded as Sport Impact.

Sport Impact work on curriculum development and teacher support, health programmes and the School Games Agenda. They have sustained their organisation through a combination of a membership scheme, partnership, commissioning and commercial opportunities.

Alan is also a member of the Youth Sport Trust National Faculty and tutors on a range of YST programmes. Most recently he tutored on the high profile and very promising National Young Coaches Academy.

As a young PE teacher Alan discovered and mentored Mo Farah. He was very influential in Mo’s development and had the honour of being Mo’s best man when he got married in 2010.