The value of a sponsorship is influenced by the size of your audience and your club’s ability to influence that audience. In working with many clubs to itemise their sponsorship inventory, that is identify the assets and opportunities they can offer sponsors,...
Creating Events that Showcase Your Sponsors When looking to create value for Sponsors, a great idea is to create events and activities that promote your sponsor’s products and services. This is an incredibly valuable opportunity for potential sponsors as it gives them...
On first observation the detail of the FTEM may seem overwhelming, however let’s look only at the ‘F’ of the FTEM Framework, the Foundation level of participation, where most start on the participation pathway. A great example of the FTEM pathway being implemented...
Official accreditation is increasingly becoming compulsory for coaches. Why though? And why, regardless of being compulsory, is it important to be developing your club’s coaches? Often we hear experienced senior players tell us they don’t need to undertake coaching...
In order to build long term relationships with sponsors, it is important for clubs to understand what the sponsoring business wants from the club or why businesses sponsor local clubs in the first place. Generally there are four reasons a local business will sponsor...
What is a grant? “A grant is where a sum of money is given by an organisation to another for a specific purpose.” The key piece of wording here is the grant is provided for a specific purpose. A common mistake clubs make when applying for grants is that their...
We’ve discussed the large variety of roles and responsibilities of a coach throughout this series but a key responsibility of a coach is to create a player development program that creates the best outcomes not just at training but also: on competition day throughout...
There is a huge range of options for clubs to facilitate coach training including: If your club has a lot of coaches then it may wish to consider a Create a “Director of Coaching” role. While you may have a different title, the role is tasked with the responsibility...
The two most common reasons grants are unsuccessful Before we start looking at the application process it is really important to understand why a large number of grants are unsuccessful. The two most common reason grants are unsuccessful is that the project didn’t...
One of the very powerful learning outcomes from completing either the ASC or your National Sporting Organisation coaching qualification is that each coach will develop their own personal coaching philosophy. This is so important in developing coaches because a...