Resources

Access a range of templates, guides and other resources to support the development of your club.

Follow the links below to access a range of resources, whether you’re working towards Clubmark, starting a new club or researching best practice.

All resources are intended as a guide only and should always be adapted to fit the needs and environment of the club or individual. Your National Governing Body may be able to provide you with more sport specific templates.

Sport England

Club Leaders: Better business skills for sport

10,000 community sports clubs now have the chance to develop better business skills thanks to Sport England’s innovative new programme, Club Leaders and the best bit is that it is all free.

Providing training and support to those doing the day-to-day running of community sport, Club Leaders will help create a robust, economically sustainable and enterprising club network. The aim of this project is to help people develop their business skills so that they are better able to assist their clubs realise their full potential, recognising that leading a sports club can be a challenge - particularly in the current economic climate.

Club Leaders Seminar brochure can be downloaded here and for more information please visit the Club Leaders website: Club Leaders

Talking Sport

Visit Talking Sport for information and resources for club development. They have a range of workshops available, as well as useful Quick Guides that you can download and handy Top Tips. Talking Sport offer support in three main areas:

• Governance and Administration – the behind-the-scenes running of your club
• Finance and Funding – advice for the treasurer and how to secure funds for your club
• Volunteers and Volunteer Management – recruiting, retaining and rewarding your volunteers

Another really useful resource are the Role Outlines, http://www.clubmark.org.uk/volunteer-support which cover the huge variety of roles in a sports club, from coach to treasurer and social secretary. These guides can help you create or define the roles of your club volunteers. Role outlines are available to runningsports network users only.

English Federation of Disability Sport

Inclusion Club Hub.

The new online toolkit will support sports clubs to improve provision and opportunities, so that more disabled people can be active at a local level.

The toolkit can be accessed at www.inclusion-club-hub.co.uk and is free to use. It has been created by the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) so more disabled people can be included in club activities. As it is online and suitable for mobile browsing, it means more clubs can use it at any convenient time. Clubs can use as an audit tool to find out how inclusive they are or a resource to support the club’s development. Other support includes developing a club action plan, strengthening the Clubmark process, or general planning.

To start with, users are taken through a series of questions to find out more about their club. Their results are then sent directly to them, including ideas, methods and resources. The information contains case studies and better practice examples, so clubs can learn from others and adapt it to suit.

EFDS’s research ‘Understanding the barriers to participation’ showed that there are a number of minor improvements a club can make, which would help disabled people to feel more comfortable in their environment.

Sported.

Sported. is the leading UK sport for development charity – empowering community groups to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people through sport. (Disadvantage can be a range of issues and will include young people at risk of offending, low income families, disabled young people and young people not in education. It’s for groups to tell us the disadvantage their young people face)

The charity provides business support and grant funding to voluntary and community groups using sport or physical activity to support young people (this could include sports clubs, youth projects, local charities etc.). For more information or to become a member for free please visit the Sported. website