Introducing Running Sport

Since 1996 Running Sport has been helping volunteers to run their clubs as effectively as possible, by addressing key issues such as volunteer management, club finances and development planning,

Many sports clubs have benefited from this support ands now place a real emphasis on club development.

A Club For All (3 hour Workshop)

This workshop will help you to find out how your club can benefit from welcoming all sectors of the community.  You can assess how well you are doing at the moment and what else you could be doing to make your club more assessible to more people.

Action Planning For Your Club (3 hour workshop)

A sports development plan will tell outside bodies what you need, when you need it and why you need it.

If your 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 the end of the 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.

Awards for All (3 hour Workshop)

This workshop gives you the knowledge to make a successful Awards for All application to support a project at your club.

By attending, you'll save your club time and effort by avoiding submitting an incomplete application or an ineligible project.

By the end of the 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

Developing Partnerships with Clubs and Schools (3 hour Workshop)

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.

This workshop 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 club
• list the key factors in creating a sustainable partnership
• identify who to involve in developing a partnership/junior club.

At the end of the workshop schools and sports organisations will 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 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

Funding + Promoting Your Club (3 hour workshop)

What club couldn't use more funds?  This highly motivational workshop will give your club practical fundraising and marketing ideas guaranteed to reel money and people!

can you afford not to attend?

How to Get Tax Breaks for Your Club (3 hour workshop)

This workshop helps to explain the new tax breaks available through Community Amateur Sports Clubs (C.A.S.C.)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 (3 hour workshop)

Imagine what your club could achieve with a highly skilled 'workforce', including coaches, officials, committee members and support staff.

Funding is available to meet the training needs of sports clubs - whether that be for CRB checking and safeguarding children, training or coaching, and administrative training. But it is important to prioritse your needs.

This workshop shows you how to put together a workforce development plan. An effective one will help your club achieve its vision and improve your chances of benefiting from funding for skill building.

By the end of the workshop you will be able to:

• reflect on what skills your workforce has and what additional skills you need
• complete your personal training needs analysis with support from your tutor
• gain ideas from your peers on the issues you need to consider and address
• go away with ideas, tools and techniques to develop a workforce development plan

Sports Development Planning (3 hour workshop)

How to produce an effective plan for your club.

This workshop will help you to create a plan for your clubs progress:

• The principles of sports development and performance pathways - so your performers can keep improving.
• The principles of a planning process so you know where to start and what to do next.
• How to apply the principles of planning to sports development so that it is relevant to your situation.
• how to write a sports development plan for your own club.

The Role of Volunteer Co-ordinator (3 hour workshop)

Clubs will benefit greatly from having a single contact who supports their volunteers, knows them all by name and what each of them does.

In this workshop, volunteers will learn exactly what this role entails and how they can become an even greater asset to their club by taking it on.

By the end of the workshop you will be able to:

• understand the role of the volunteer coordinator
• know how to interpret a club development plan and its volunteering implications
• learn how best to recruit and retain volunteers and recognise and reward them
• know how to access local, regional and national programmes to support the implementation of a volunteer action plan

Valuing Volunteers (3 hour workshop)

This workshop will help you to recruit more volunteers, motivate, retain, reward and manage them even more effectively.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• develop an understanding of the importance of volunteers in English Sport
• promote coordinated planning for volunteer recruitment, retention, reward and recognition
• identify what clubs and sports organisations should do to prepare themselves to receive new young volunteers, and the type of roles they can undertake.
• help build support mechanisms and links
• gain commitment for ongoing volunteer development

These workshops are taught in an interactive, informal way

Course Title	Date	Time	Cost	Venue	Price
Valuing Your Volunteers	22nd September 2008	6.30pm - 9.30pm	FREE	Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield	Dean Heywood 07910 794501
A Club For All	20th October 2008	6.00pm - 9.00pm	£10.00	Hanson Sports College, Bradford	Lynn Armitage 01484 234087
Valuing Your Volunteers	3rd November 2008	6.30pm - 9.30pm	FREE	Brighouse Sports Club	Lynn Armitage 01484 234087
The Role of Volunteer Co-ordinator	10th November 2008	6.00pm - 9.00pm	£10.00	Bradford College (Trinity Green Campus)	Lynn Armitage 01484 234087
Funding For Your Club	24th November 2009	6.30pm - 9.30 pm	£10.00	Dram Centre, Ridgeway, Dalton, Huddersfield	Lynn Armitage 01484 234087
Awards for All	3rd December 2008	6.30pm - 9.30pm	£10.00	Pontefract Library	Jayne Dowding 01924 302481
Valuing Your Volunteers	28th January 2009	6.30pm - 9.30pm	FREE	Bradford	Lynn Armitage 01484 234087
The Role of Volunteer Co-ordinator	9th February 2009	6.30pm - 9.30pm	£10.00	Pontefract Library	Jayne Dowding 01924 302481
A Club For All	11th February 2009	6.30pm - 9.30pm	£10.00	Brighouse Sports Centre	Lynn Armitage 01484 234087
Awards For All	23rd February 2009	6.00pm - 9.00pm	£10.00	Bradford College (Trinity Green Campus)	Lynn Armitage 01484 234087
A Club For All	4th May 2009	6.30pm - 9.30pm	£10.00	Kirklees	Lynn Armitage 01484 234087
Awards for All	20th May 2009	6.30pm - 9.30pm	£10.00	Kirklees	Dean Heywood 09710 794501
Valuing Your Volunteers	8th July 2009	6.30pm - 9.30pm	FREE	John Charles Centre for Sport, Leeds	Lynn Armitage 01484 234087
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