Running Sport Courses
Course: Running Sport at the AICC on 10th Oct 2009, 10am - apply online.
Course: Running Sport - join the waiting list.
A Club for All
Attracting new club members from the whole community This workshop identifies the benefits of opening up your sports club, to include a wider membership base - meaning more coaches, players, officials and increased revenue, improved eligibility for lottery funding, and quality ratings such as Clubmark; whilst ensuring the involvement and support of the local community. The ‘A Club for All’ workshop outlines how your club can benefit from reaching all members of the community, and explains how to reach out to them - young people, older people, those on low incomes, disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. By the end of the workshop you will be able to:
- Explain what “sports equity” means
- List the benefits of sports equity for your sports club or organisation
- Identify equitable and inequitable practice
- Identify key equity challenges for your sports club or organisation
- Identify the steps you may need to take in your own club or organisation to start a basic action plan for equity
- Identify the organisations that can help you and provide further guidance on sports equity.
Action Planning for Your Club
Sports development planning A sports development plan will tell outside bodies what your club needs, when it needs it and why it needs it. If your sports club follows a similar pattern each year - fixture lists, the term's programme or the end-of-year championships - creating a sports development plan will help you to raise your head above the weekly routine to ensure you move forward. By attending the 'Action Planning for Your Club' workshop you will be able to:
- Apply the principles of planning to sports development
- Create clear performance pathways for your best performers
- Establish links and gain support from a wider sporting network
- Maximise the use of limited resources
- Define goals for your club's progress and initiate campaigns for funding or accreditation.
Developing Partnerships with Clubs and Schools
Opportunities to bring more junior members through your doors This workshop aims to develop school and sport organisation partnerships to provide young people with quality opportunities to progress in sports from schools to clubs. Young people are the future of sports, and it is important that they are able to move from school to an adult environment that is of high quality, attractive to them, and that helps them progress in their chosen sport. 'Developing Partnerships with Clubs and Schools' focuses on two key areas in making the transition and can be tailored to meet the needs of schools and sports organisations. This workshop will enable schools and sports organisations to:
- Analyse the benefits of developing quality partnerships with sports organisations/a junior sports club
- List the key factors in creating a sustainable partnership
- Identify who to involve in developing a partnership/junior club.
By participating in this workshop, schools and sports organisations will be able to:
- List the benefits of linking schools and sports clubs
- Identify current initiatives and resources that can support the development of links between schools and clubs and support the development of junior clubs
- Identify ways in which the partners can work together effectively to create successful partnerships
- Identify the key elements for developing junior clubs, and how this fits with Clubmark and National Governing Body club programmes
- Create an outline plan for a particular development project.
Awards for All
How to access a specific source of funding This workshop gives you the knowledge to make a successful Awards for All application for funding to support a project at your sports club. By attending, you'll save your club time and effort by avoiding submitting an incomplete application or an ineligible project. Once you've completed the 'Awards for All' workshop you will be able to:
- Understand the opportunities available and the application process
- Identify an eligible project
- Recognise who should be involved in supporting the application
- Write a draft application
Funding for your Club
Ideas and advice for your club on raising money for club projects Every sports club could use more money and better publicity. This workshop provides practical ideas for raising funds from a range of sources, including fund-raising events and sponsorship. It will also help you to identify how you can promote your sports club more effectively. By participating in the 'Funding for Your Club' workshop, you will be able to:
- Develop a project mindful of the national agenda for sport and the funding opportunities available
- Identify the barriers to successful funding applications
- Identify sources of funding, including grants, sponsorship and general fund-raising
- Assess whether the Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) scheme or having Charitable status could be potential sources of additional revenue
- Identify the information required to develop a funding plan
- Describe ways of evaluating the effectiveness of your project.
How to Get Tax Breaks for Your Club
Achieving Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) status This workshop helps to explain the new tax breaks available through Community Amateur Sports Clubs status. You can learn how to go about paying considerably less tax in order to allow you to spend more where it counts – on your club. The workshop will explain the process and benefits of becoming a CASC, and by the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
- Recognise and explain to other volunteers the advantages of becoming a CASC
- Describe to volunteers the processes required to apply for CASC status
- List the areas of development in order to apply for CASC status.
Making the Most of Your People
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- Describe the process of workforce development planning
- Explain the benefits of workforce development planning
- Establish an action plan to produce and implement a workforce development plan.
Needs Analysis
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- Identify their personal outcomes for the workshop and their specific needs in relation to club and volunteer development
- Identify the key elements of the runningsports programme
- Link their specific needs to key elements of the runningsports programme
- Identify other organisations/programmes that could support club and volunteer development
- Produce an action plan to address their identified needs.
The Role of the Volunteer Coordinator
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- Describe the role of the Volunteer Coordinator
- Analyse how clubs use volunteers and the implications for your club
- Review how clubs have developed the recruitment, retention and rewarding of volunteers
- Develop the roles and responsibilities of your volunteers
- Develop an action plan to further enhance the recruitment, retention and rewarding of volunteers both internally and externally to the club.
Valuing Your Sports Volunteers
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- Assess the number of volunteers in their club or organisation
- Estimate the value of those volunteers
- Explain how they will make volunteering a key element of the management of their club or organisation
- Identify the critical path in planning for volunteers
- Agree a vision for volunteering/volunteer management in their organisation
- Translate the vision into goals and targets
- Select and apply methods of recruiting, retaining, recognising and rewarding volunteers in a sports activity
- Identify relevant local and national sources of support and information
- Explain the opportunities presented by the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics
- Commit to implementing volunteer management in their organisation.