SportNav Volunteering in Sport - Sport Across Staffordshire

SportNav
Volunteering
in Sport
a guide for sport volunteer
managers/coordinators
In partnership with

Welcome
Over 6 million
people - 26% of all
volunteers - give one
billion hours to sport
every year.
Sport volunteers help to drive
sporting success.
If we are to succeed in our national
sporting ambitions for London 2012
and beyond we need many more people
to take up sports volunteering and be
motivated to stay involved.
This SportNav quick guide is designed
to help you make the most of all the
opportunities that sport volunteering
has to offer your organisation, whether
you are offering or seeking volunteers.
Enjoy the journey!
Andy Reed MP, Chair, Sport Strategic
Partnership for Volunteering
2 Sport England

Contents
2 Introduction
4 What is this booklet all about?
5 Linking sport and volunteering
6 What volunteering organisations
need to know about sport
6 Why should Volunteer Centres
get involved with sport?
6 What is a sport volunteer?
7 What is a sport volunteer
manager/coordinator?
7 What help do sport organisations
need from volunteer organisations?
7 How can our Volunteer Centres
start to work with sport?
Get fit
Get healthy
Get active
8 What sport organisations need
to know about volunteering
8 Why should your sport
organisation work with wider
volunteering organisations?
8 How are volunteering
organisations organised?
10 What is a volunteer-involving
organisation?
10 What is sport volunteering all about?
10 Why do sport volunteers
need managing?
10 What does good sport volunteer
management involve?
10 What help is available?
12 What is SportNav?
14 What is available on each
SportNav route?
14 Management
14 Events
16 Learning and Qualifications
16 Central
18 Useful web links
19 Acronyms
19 Acknowledgments
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What is this booklet
all about?
If you are:
someone involved in a volunteering
infrastructure organisation who wants
to know more about sport
or
someone coordinating and managing
volunteers in a sport organisation
then SportNav is for you.
This booklet will:
• introduce you to SportNav and
what it can offer
• show you the benefits of
sport volunteering
• help you to work in partnership
to improve sport volunteering
• help you to connect volunteers
with opportunities in sport
• guide you through a set of sport
volunteer pathways and FAQs
• help you to recruit, place and
manage volunteers in sport •
26%
1 billion hours
to sport
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The Delivery System for community sport
National
partners
Regional
partners
County
Sports
Partnership
Community
Sports Network
People
behind
the people
People
taking part
The Delivery System for sport connects
people taking part and local deliverers with
policy makers and investors in a simple
and coordinated way.
The system will provide:
• one system for sport
• an evidence based approach
• robust performance management
• a bottom up, top down
planning mechanism
• resources that are placed where
they can have the biggest impact •
Linking sport and volunteering
Figure 1
Structures in volunteering
and sport sectors
The diagram below shows the parallel relationships between
sports organisations (left hand column) and volunteering
infrastructure organisations (right hand column). •
Individual participants
in sport
Coaches Clubs Volunteers
Community Sports
Networks
Volunteer Centres
County Sports
Partnerships
Volunteer Centre
networks (sub-regional)
Regional
Sports Boards
England Volunteering
Development Councils
in the Regions
Sport England
‘Framework for Sport’
Volunteering England
‘Building on Success’
Department for Culture Media and Sport,
‘Game Plan’
Home Office and Office of the
3rd Sector, ‘Change up’
Read on to find out how these organisations can work together
to promote and support volunteering in sport.
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What volunteering
organisations need
to know about sport
Why should Volunteer Centres
get involved with sport?
• For these potential benefits:
Local sports clubs are part of the
community so by reaching these
groups Volunteer Centres can
connect with new audiences.
• Working with sport increases the
range of opportunities available on
the Volunteer Centre database.
• Getting in touch with the County Sports
Partnerships and Community Sports
Networks enables Volunteer Centres to:
• identify the best-placed sport clubs
to work with on volunteering
• build on Local Strategic Partnership
and Local Area Agreement targets
• develop a wider voluntary
sector infrastructure.
What is a sport volunteer?
Someone who gives their time to help
with a sports club, organisation or event
in any support role, whether generic or
sport-related.
Volunteers can fill a wide range of roles
in sports.
Why?
• Many roles do not require knowledge
of the sport.
• Most roles are found in any community
organisation - transferable skills.
• You don't need to be sporty!
Sport needs volunteers to help with
many things, such as:
• looking after the finances
• creating publicity
• attracting sponsorship
• web site design and management
• making lunches and teas
or
• just being on hand to give support
at events.
Go to www.skillsactive.com/careers/
for lots of examples of roles in sport
volunteering and the skills they require.
What the volunteers
say about finding sport
volunteering through
Volunteer Centres:
“
I originally came into the
Volunteer Centre as I had
recently been made
redundant from a job I
really enjoyed. I realised
that I wanted to put my
knowledge from my sports
science degree to some
use in a job but I didn’t
have any relevant
experience, as I had not
worked in the field. What
I expected from the service
was that a sports club or
organisation would have
a vacancy which they
needed filling and I would
go along and help out.
What I found was that the
service was much more
tailored to MY needs and
what I wanted to get out
of the experience.
”
Volunteer from Nottingham
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Identify
Build
Develop
What is a sport volunteer
manager/coordinator?
Someone responsible for managing a
group of volunteers for a sports club,
organisation or event. In volunteering they
are usually known as ‘volunteer managers’
but in sport they are also known as
‘volunteer coordinators’. However, many
sport clubs may not have defined this role
yet so have no designated person with
responsibility for volunteers.
What help do sport organisations
need from volunteer organisations?
Many sport clubs will need help and
advice on:
• The whole idea of volunteers - they
may not recognise as volunteering the
unpaid help they already receive from
players, supporters, parents and
members of the local community.
• Defining the volunteer roles they
have within the club, including
volunteer coordinators.
• Providing an induction for volunteers.
• Expenses for volunteers - what to pay
and what not to pay.
• Succession planning for volunteer roles
within the club.
• How to write a volunteer strategy
or plan.
They might also need help with raising the
profile of volunteer management within
the club itself - because winning sports
matches or leagues, enrolling more
players, or going on tour at the end of the
season might seem to be more important
than rewarding those who help to keep
the club going.
How can our Volunteer Centres start
to work with sport?
As County Sports Partnerships work
in sub-regional areas - it would be best
to contact the CSP representing the
sub-regional Volunteer Centres in
your geographical area.
You can find your nearest CSP on the
Volunteering England sport web pages.
See www.volunteeringengland.org.uk
Case study 1:
Durham
Who’s involved?
Durham Sports Partnership and
the local Volunteer Centre, Teesdale
& Wear Valley, 2D - got together to
work in partnership, funded by
Sport England.
What have they achieved?
The funded post-holder and other
staff at 2D have been working to
make sports teams into sports
clubs and sports clubs into part
of the volunteering infrastructure
and the wider Voluntary and
Community Sector.
Are they still working in partnership?
Yes, there is still funding for
this project.
What can we learn from this?
Their experiences provide valuable
practical lessons as well as raising
important questions for the future
of volunteering in sport - see the
Volunteering England - sport web
pages for more details. •
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What sport
organisations
need to know
about volunteering
Why should your sport
organisation work with wider
volunteering organisations?
Do you want more volunteers?
Are you finding it difficult to
retain volunteers?
Could you make better use of
your volunteers?
If you said ‘yes’ to any these questions
there are volunteering organisations
whose job it is to help you.
How are volunteering
organisations organised?
Just as there is a large sport system in
England, there is also a wide network
of volunteering organisations to help all
sectors, including sport (see Figure 1).
This includes:
Local Volunteer Centres
What do they do?
They provide support at a local level for
individual volunteers and volunteer
involving organisations.
How can they help your sports club?
By:
• Operating as brokers - putting potential
volunteers in touch with volunteering
opportunities and training, and linking
volunteer-seeking organisations with
appropriate people.
• Promoting your volunteering needs
through encouraging local interest
via events and publicity.
• Delivering good practice training.
• Providing information for volunteers
and volunteer managers/coordinators.
• Developing volunteering roles and
opportunities within your sports club.
• Providing information on policy.
• Responding to local campaigns from
a volunteering perspective.
• Linking strategically to your
Community Sports Network and
County Sports Partnership.
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new sports
volunteers
Although many sport volunteers are
recruited directly into clubs, events or
sport governing bodies, Local Volunteer
Centres can extend the type and range
of people who volunteer in sport and
may well be able to identify someone
with special skills who would not usually
have found their way into sport. See
http://www.volunteering.org.uk/volunteer
developmentagencies/
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Case study 2:
Nottingham
Who’s involved?
Nottingham Volunteer Centre and
the local authority as well as other
Volunteer Centres in the area and
sports clubs.
What have they achieved?
• Better volunteer management
within 30 sports clubs in the area
- for all current volunteers as
well as new volunteers.
• 122 new sports volunteers
through the Volunteer Centre.
Are they still working in partnership?
It required the appointment of a
dedicated person, in post as Sports
Volunteering Development Worker,
to give sport groups the level of
attention they enjoyed over the
two-year life of the project. This
post has now finished and sport
opportunities continue to appear on
the Nottingham Volunteer Centre
database, from the sport clubs with
whom they worked during the project.
What can we learn from this?
Initial investment of time and other
resources can lead to ongoing
support for sport clubs in the same
way that Volunteer Centres support
other community organisations.
What have they achieved?
The funded post-holder and other
staff at 2D have been working to
make sports teams into sports
clubs and sports clubs into part of
the volunteering infrastructure
and the wider Voluntary and
Community Sector.
Are they still working in partnership?
Yes, there is still funding for
this project.
Sub-regional volunteering
infrastructure networks
What do they do? These are the equivalent
of County Sports Partnerships but for
volunteering. They link together all the
volunteer centres in a sub-region.
How can they help your sports club?
By spreading the net for recruitment.
Volunteering England
What do they do? Volunteering England
is a national charity working to promote
volunteering and volunteer management.
They offer a range of resources to anyone
who works with or manages volunteers
and to those who want to volunteer.
How can they help your sports club?
By bringing sport and volunteering
organisations together - they are currently
leading a sport volunteering project to
promote this initiative.
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What is a volunteer-involving
organisation?
Any organisation that seeks to engage
volunteers who will help it to run smoothly.
This can be anything from a small
community group to a major corporate
sector business. Local sports clubs are
community groups.
What is sport volunteering all about?
Volunteers are the lifeblood of many sports
clubs. So what do most sports clubs and
event organisers say they need most?
Help from Volunteers!
Often, managing your current volunteers
better can make them happier and more
productive. Satisfied volunteers are more
likely to spread good reports of your sport
group by word of mouth. It’s similar to
when you’re at your workplace - if you’re
treated well you tend to work better,
harder and tell people good things
about your workplace.
Creating great surroundings for volunteers
is all about making sure that the whole
sports club is aware of and getting the
most out of its current volunteers. You
need to be ready for any new volunteers
and help them to focus the use of the
time they are prepared give to the club.
Why do sport volunteers
need managing?
Sports volunteers don’t just happen!
They need to be recruited and looked
after just like the players in any sports
club. Managing volunteers leads to better
volunteers through reward and retention
and makes recruitment easier.
What does good sport volunteer
management involve?
A good sport volunteer
manager/coordinator provides:
• Clear volunteering roles within the club.
• An induction for volunteers.
• Expenses for volunteers - and knows
what to pay or not to pay.
• Succession planning for roles within
the club.
• Help with writing a volunteer strategy
or plan.
• Advice on how to raise the profile of
volunteer management within the club
itself - when winning sports matches
and getting more players, or going on
tour at the end of the season might
always seem to be more important.
What help is available?
The following places can give you
support and help you improve your
volunteer management:
Volunteer Centres
Can often give one-to-one support to
those managing volunteers within a local
organisation like your sports club. See
www.volunteering.org.uk/volunteer
developmentagencies/findoutabout
volunteeringinyourarea.htm
Volunteering England
Has a whole raft of information and
support for you (see below) from fact
sheets to the Investing in Volunteers
standard - showing that your organisation
is managing its volunteers in the best way
possible. See www.volunteering.org.uk
Running Sports
Provides workbooks and workshops
on Valuing your Volunteers - which takes
you through the step-by step process
of volunteering within your club.
See www.runningsports.org
Your National Governing Body
Will have volunteering information on
their website, or it is available through
your county, regional or national contacts.
See www.sportengland.org/ngbs
creating
opportunities
to get healthy
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Other
examples
of starting
to work
together
from across
the country:
• Cumbria Sports and Physical Activity
Partnership have a volunteer centre
represented on the board.
• Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
Sports Partnership and local Volunteer
Centres are working to increase the
number of volunteers in sports clubs.
• Sport and volunteering organisations
in Bolton are continuing their work
together by using the Do-It website to
attract new volunteers into clubmark
clubs in the area.
• Cornwall Sports Partnership has
devised a way of working sub-regionally
with the Volunteer Centres in Cornwall.
• Lewisham Volunteer Centre is working
with East London Sport and Physical
Activity Partnership on future strategy,
conference and support for sport in
the sub-region.
And there are many more in every region.
For more information on these and other
case studies from around the country
visit www.volunteering.org.uk/sport •
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What is SportNav?
SportNav is designed for those
seeking volunteers or volunteer
opportunities, whether they come
from sports clubs, local businesses
or voluntary and community sector
bodies. It seeks to help people
navigate their way through
opportunities for volunteering in sport.
SportNav is presented as a map -
similar to an underground railway
map - with different coloured lines
and stops en route.
See Figure 2 to review the four
volunteering routes provided
on SatNav: Management;
Events; Learning and
Qualifications; Central.
To find information about
volunteering roles and careers go
to www.skillsactive.com/careers •
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Figure 2
SportNav - a route map for sport
volunteer managers and coordinators
Diagram provided courtesy of Skillsactive
Recruitment
Retention
General events
Sports Coach UK
FE
Colleges
CSPs
Clubs
Running
Sports
Skills
Active
Sports Leaders UK
Schools
HE/
Universities
Local Volunteer Centre
NGBs
The Local community
Local events
Reward/recognition
Community Sports
Networks
National events
Diversity
Duty of care
International events
Funding
Measurement
Partnerships
London
2012
Key: Management; Events; Learning and qualifications; Central
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What is available on
each SportNav route?
Management
The stops on the red Management
route include:
• recruitment
• retention
• reward and recognition
• funding
• diversity
• measurement
• duty of care
• partnerships
Each of these stops provides you with
key words to help you get the most from
your volunteers.
As you can see, the Management route
intersects with several other key stations
such as:
Further and Higher Education institutions
who provide large numbers of
sport volunteers
Local Volunteer Centres who can
extend your volunteer reach
National Governing Bodies of Sport
whose volunteer plans should give
you a useful framework to work with
Volunteering England at
www.volunteering.org.uk produces lots
of useful case studies and best practice
resources to help you manage your sport
volunteers. For example:
• Good practice bank - where all sorts
of good practice from around the
country is ready and waiting for you.
• Information team - the ‘phone line is
open 5 days a week, or by email.
• The website lists publications -
especially important is the
well-respected The Good Practice
Guide, 2nd Edition.
• Excellence in Volunteer Management
- ongoing development of volunteer
management, led by Volunteering
England. To keep up to date, contact
the team, or join Volunteering England.
• Investing in Volunteers - the UK-wide
organisational standard that shows
your organisation’s commitment to
managing volunteers.
Events
The stops on the Events route
include a range of different levels of
sport volunteering:
• local events
• national events
• international events
• general events (such as festivals and
fairs that might have a sport activity
as part of their programme)
• the London 2012 Olympic and
Paralympic Games
Anyone volunteering for events also needs
some training and good management,
so the Events route links to both of these
lines too.
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take your
first steps
towards better
sport volunteering
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Learning and Qualifications
The stops on the Learning and
Qualifications route include all the
places that volunteers and volunteer
managers/coordinators can go to pick
up extra skills or refresh existing ones:
• Excellence in Volunteer Management
- a range of training and support from
Volunteering England. The support
on offer varies, check the website
or contact Volunteering England
for latest news. See
www.volunteering.org
• Sports Coach UK - is a charitable
organisation dedicated to the
development and implementation of
coaches and coaching throughout
the UK. It acts as the training agency
for sport coaches, running a full range of
workshops and courses from beginner
coach right up to national coach. See
www.sportscoachuk.org
• Sports Leaders UK - (formerly the
British Sports Trust) aims to inspire
people and communities through
leadership qualifications in sport.
See www.bst.org.uk
• SkillsActive - is the Sector Skills Council
for Active Leisure and Learning. It has its
own skills maps for people in different
sport roles - www.skillsactive.com.
National Occupational Standards for
volunteering have now been approved
- to see these go to www.vsnto.org.uk
• Running Sports - this programme is
made up of workshops, booklets,
and home study packs which advise
on almost all aspects of managing,
developing and administering your club.
Most of these are available at a small
charge. For information on cost and
how to book a workshop ring the
Running Sport Support Team on
0207 404 2224 or email
runningsport@coachwise.ltd.uk
or go to www.runningsports.org NGBs
- many of which run their own, specially
tailored training workshops based on
scUK ones. See
www.sportengland.org/ngbs
• FE Colleges - that can offer accredited
learning in most key sport roles. These
training courses can lead to paid
employment or simply enhance the
skill of existing volunteer managers.
See www.hero.ac.uk
• HE institutions/Universities - typically,
these run accredited higher level
courses like degrees and diplomas
that are closely linked to employment
opportunities. Many also include
sport work placements or sport
volunteering opportunities too.
See www.universitiesuk.ac.uk
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Central
The stops on the Central route focus
mainly on local and community agencies
and organisations where the majority of
sport volunteers spend their volunteer
‘careers’ - including:
• schools
• clubs
• local events
• community sports networks
• volunteer centres
• the local community
This route also crosses several
others so that, as a volunteer
manager/coordinator you can find
appropriate learning and qualification
opportunities for your volunteers,
or find other events and organisations
that they might graduate to in time.
See the next section for web site
addresses that will extend your search
under each route. •
Facts and figures:
80% of people think about helping out
in their local community, but don’t know
where to start.
There are over 350 Volunteer Centres
in England who can help those people,
and your organisation take your first
steps towards better sport volunteering.
Quotes from sport and
volunteering organisations
working together:
“I love it when you get a win win situation.
Working with sport feels like a win win win win win”
Volunteer Centre manager
“We want to think much wider than the traditional
sporting route”
NGB volunteer manager
“It’s brilliant to know where we can get to working
with Volunteer Centres”
CSP workforce officer
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Useful web links
Management
http://www.volunteering.org.uk/managingvolunteers/
- For learning about managing volunteers, visit Volunteering
England, or call our Information line free on 0800 028 3304.
http://www.investinginvolunteers.org.uk/ - Investing in
Volunteers is the UK quality standard for all organisations
which involve volunteers in their work. The Standard enables
organisations to comprehensively review their volunteer
management, and also publicly demonstrates their
commitment to volunteering.
http://www.volunteering.org.uk/volunteerdevelopment
agencies/findoutaboutvolunteeringinyourarea.htm - For local
training from Volunteer Centres, visit Volunteering England to
find a local Volunteer Centre.
www.csv.org.uk - One of the major deliverers of the
government’s Millennium Volunteers programme,
which encourages young people between the ages 16-24
to volunteer.
Community Service Volunteer Action Desks - These work in
partnership with the BBC in 36 BBC local radio stations. They
broadcast appeals for volunteers, run awareness campaigns
and promote Lifelong Learning.
www.prohelp.org.uk - The largest national provider
of ‘pro bono’ or ‘free professional support’ for
community organisations.
www.IT4communities.org.uk - Introduces skilled, professional
volunteers to community organisations looking for help with
IT projects, promotes volunteering among IT Professionals
and companies and builds IT capacity in the Voluntary and
Community Sectors.
www.do-it.org.uk - The national on-line database for volunteers
who want to find opportunities and for organisations who want
to find volunteers.
www.volunteering.org - Where you can find your local
Volunteer Centre who will talk you through volunteering
opportunities/finding volunteers.
www.timebank.org.uk - Creates new ways for people to get
involved in volunteering; connects people and organisations
to each other; and transforms the image of volunteering
through campaigns.
www.csv.org.uk/News/Time+Survey.htm - Statistics on time
and volunteering.
www.ivr.org.uk - Institute for Volunteering Research. Their
Volunteering Impact Assessment Toolkit is a useful tool
for measuring volunteering.
www.governancehub.org.uk - Information about good
governance in the voluntary sector.
http://www.sportengland.org/comprehensive_performance
_assessment-2
http://www.sportengland.org/index/get_resources/sport
_playing_its_part.htm then look at the newsletter for
Local area agreements.
http://www.activepeoplesurvey.com/
http://www.culture.gov.uk/global/research/taking_part
_survey/default.htm
Events
London 2012
http://www.london2012.org/en/ourvision/LOCOG/
Learning and qualifications
http://www.skillsactive.com/careers/your_career/sport5.html
- A career map for those involved in sport both as volunteers
and paid staff - showing how the links between different roles
can be made, and what skills are required.
http://www.volunteering.org.uk/managingvolunteers/
excellenceinvolunteermanagementprogramme/
- Excellence in Volunteer Management is there to help and
support volunteer leaders, managers and coordinators.
www.runningsports.org - Aimed at individual volunteers,
Runningsports provides practical tools and helpful tips for
running sport clubs and groups, best practice guides from
other volunteers, downloadable resources and workshops.
The Running Sport Valuing your Volunteers workbook and
workshops are available locally to sport volunteers - at a
small charge.
www.vcslearninglinks.org.uk - An online directory of voluntary
and community sector infrastructure bodies and networks
across England that support learning and training.
www.niace.org.uk - The National Institute of Adult Continuing
Education - England and Wales - a non-governmental
organisation working for more and different adult learners.
www.sportscoachuk.org and www.sportsofficialsuk.com
- For information on coaching and officiating qualifications.
www.sportengland.org - See ‘get resources’ and
‘useful links’ pages.
www.ukworkforcehub.org.uk - To help voluntary and
community organisations make the best of their paid staff,
volunteers and trustees through workforce development.
Central
www.csv.org.uk/News/Crime+and+Grime.htm
- Statistics on community and volunteering.
www.afpe.org.uk - The site for the Association for
Physical Education.
www.youthsporttrust.org.uk - This site has information
about PESSCLs, School Sports Coordinators and the
national Sports Colleges network.
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Acronyms
CCPR - Central Council for Physical Recreation - the federal
body for voluntary sport and recreation organisations
CPSU - Sport England/NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit
CRB - Criminal Records Bureau - the agency that checks
criminal records and provides ‘disclosures’ (checks) for
people working with children
CSN - Community Sports Network - local-based federal
body that delivers sport
CSP - County Sports Partnership - county-based,
cross-sector federal bodies that oversee sports delivery
CSV - Community Service Volunteers (volunteer specific)
CVS - Council for Voluntary Service (aligned to NACVS)
DCMS - Department for Media Culture and Sport
DfES - Department for Education and Skills
EFDS - English Federation of Disability Sport
HEIs - Higher Education Institutions (universities and colleges)
HSE - Health and Safety Executive
KPIs - Key Performance Indicators
LOCOG - London Organising Committee of the
Olympic Games
NACVS - National Association of Councils for
Voluntary Service
NDPB - Non-departmental public body
PESSCL - Physical Education, School Sport and Club
Links programme
TASS - Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme
scUK - Sports coach UK (formerly National
Coaching Foundation)
SL UK - Sports Leaders UK (formerly British Sports Trust)
SSCos - School sport coordinators
SE - Sport England - the NDPB for sport in England
UKCC - UK (formerly National) Coaching Certificate
VCs - Volunteer Centres - local volunteer-specific
‘one-stop-shops’ aligned to Volunteering England:
see also VDAs
VCS - Voluntary and community sector
VDAs - Volunteer Development Agencies - local volunteerspecific
‘one-stop- shops’ aligned to Volunteering England:
see also VCs
VE - Volunteering England - the single body for volunteering
YST - Youth Sport Trust - the UK’s largest charity for youth
sport which also oversees many government funded sport
development programmes such as Step Into Sport and the
Sport Colleges network
Acknowledgments
The following individuals and organisations
contributed to this document:
British Universities
Sports Association
Nigel Mayglothling
Brunel University
Celia Brackenridge
Central Council for
Physical Recreation
Andy Hanson
Child Protection in Sport Unit
Anne Tiivas
Gill Joyce
Community Service Volunteers
Alan Bramwell
Elizabeth Slater
Creating Excellence
Martin Cork
Tracy Clark
DCMS
Simon Ewing
Do-it
Simon Jenkinson
Get2thePoint
Martin Farrell
Humber Sports Partnership
Rachel Roberts
Investing in Volunteers
Gina Aylward
IVR
Angela Ellis
LOCOG
James Collins
Neil Walker
PESAS consultancy
Brenda Read
Running Sport
Karen Allen
SkillsActive
Bansari Somani
Stuart Wilson
Sue Hook
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