LONDON, August 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Website Features Make the Search for Coaches and Coaching Advice Easier Than Ever Before

Coaching-UK (www.coaching-uk.org.uk), the No.1 forum and directory for coaching in the UK, has today announced the roll-out of a comprehensive range of new features that will make searching for coaches and coaching advice easier than ever before.

Coaching-UK is a completely free community site designed to be a resource for anyone helping others, or being helped, to improve awareness in a given area. From vocational coaching to fitness coaching, Coaching is all about helping people to set and achieve goals in order to improve a particular behavioural performance.

The active Coaching-UK Forum was launched in August 2003 to provide a home for discussion and advice on all aspects of Coaching and already has over 350 members.

The exciting new features introduced today include:

Interactive mapping: 'Coaching-UK Maps' brings coaches and those looking for guidance together quickly and simply with the aid of a real-time Google map of coaching providers in the UK.

Online TV: 'Coaching TV' brings users expert interviews, news items and vox-pops from the world of coaching.

Articles: 'Coaching-UK Articles' provides a home for exclusive advice and feature articles from the coaching industry.

Blogs: 'Coaching-UK Bloggers' range from experts commenting on developments in their industry to those receiving coaching using the section as a way to keep a diary of their experiences and views.

A spokesperson for Coaching-UK said of the recent upgrades:

"Coaching-UK has been successfully bringing people together in this growing and important sector of business for 4 years. The introduction of our new site technology is an exciting next step that we hope will make it even easier to explore the issues and challenges faced by coaches and those receiving coaching."

Notes to Editor:

About Coaching-UK

Coaching-UK is a free community site for anyone helping another person, or being helped, to improve awareness in a given area and to set and achieve goals in order to improve a particular behavioural performance, from Vocational Coaching to Health and Fitness.

The Coaching-UK live forum (http://www.coaching-uk.org.uk/forum) provides a home for open discussion while 'Coaching TV' (http://tv.coaching-uk.org.uk.com) brings users expert interviews, news items and vox-pops from the world of coaching.

Coaching-UK also brings coaches and those looking for guidance together quickly and simply with the aid of 'Coaching Maps' (http://coaching-uk.org.uk/maps) which provides access to a real-time Google map of coaching providers in the UK.

Coaching-UK was created by, and is maintained by, Community121 (http://www.community121.com), builders of niche community websites.

For more information please contact: Emily Cagle (PR121) Tel: +44-(0)20-7022-4897

For more information please contact: Emily Cagle (PR121), Tel: +44-(0)20-7022-4897