> A Club for All
> Action Planning for Your Club
> Awards for All
> Developing Partnerships with Clubs and Schools
> Funding for Your Club
> How to Get Tax Breaks for Your Club
> Making the Most of Your People
> Needs Analysis
> The Role of the Volunteer Coordinator
> Valuing Your Sports Volunteers
A Club for All
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- describe sports equity and its values
- list the benefits of sports equity for their sports club or organisation
- identify equitable and inequitable practice
- identify key equity challenges for their sports club or organisation
- identify the steps they may need to take in their own club or organisation to start a basic action plan for equity
- identify the organisations that can help them and provide further guidance on sports equity.
Action Planning for Your Club
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- explain the principles of sports development and sports performance pathways
- explain the principles of the planning process
- apply the principles of planning to sports development
- write a sports development plan.
Awards for All
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- understand the opportunities available through funding, particularly Awards for All
- develop ideas for a project eligible for Awards for All
- prepare draft answers to the main questions on the Awards for All application form
- prepare an action plan for use after the workshop.
Developing Partnerships with Clubs and Schools
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- list the benefits of linking schools and 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 groups 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 (NGB) club programmes
- create an outline plan for a particular development project
Funding for Your Club
By the end of the workshop, participants should 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 their project.
How to Get Tax Breaks for Your Club
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- recognise the advantages of becoming a Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC)
- describe the processes required to apply for CASC status
- list the areas of development in order to apply for CASC status
- understand the key elements of a successful application.
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.
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