Volunraty Sports Clubs.

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Secetory-Deals with complaints adminstrive side of thing's.

Our Life long member Show's a large interest in the club and has paid sports council fees for a long period of time. This shall be an honorary class of membership to be granted at the discretion of the Annual General Meeting as a reward for long/or distinguished service on behalf of the Club. Also junior members which are young chilldren and adults under the age of 18. There are laso non members which means this class of membership shall be reserved for those members who wish to be associated with, and contribute to, the Club, whilst not wishing or being available to play for the Club.

What is managmant responsible for?

The club shall be managed through the Managment Commitee consisting of these officers i have mentioned previously.Only these posts will have the right to vote at managment commitees. The Managment commitee is mainly responsible for the codes of conducts and what rules affect the organisation of a club.

They have the power to appoint sub-commitees and appoint advisers to the managment to fufil it's busness. They are responsible for disciplinary hearings to those who go against the code of conduct. The management Commitee will be responsible for taking any disciplinary action following such hearings.

What happens to the money?

All clubs money will be banked in the name of the club. The club treasurer will be in charge of collecting the money and dealing with any acounts. The financial year of the club will end on a set date. An audited statement of annual accounts will be presented by the treasurer at the AGM.

Any cheques drawn against the club funds should hold the signitures of the treasurer, plus two other officers.

Anual General Meeting's

The affairs of the group/club shall be controlled by a committee comprising the Officers and (number) other members elected from, and by, the Members of the group/club.

The notice from the AGM will given by the club secetery in advance so that everybody will have a notice to attend. The AGM will have all the reports from officers from the managment commitee and statment of the audited acounts.

All nominations for officer roles will be sent to the secotory of the AGM so elections will take place at the AGM. Anyone hwo is a member of the group or club has the right to vote. The quorum for AGMs shall be (number-usually 25 percent of the membership). Failure to achieve a quorum shall involve the existing Officers and General Committee remaining in their posts until a quorum is attained at a subsequent Annual General Meeting.

The AGM has the right to call more meeting's which are Extra-ordinary General Meeting's. It's duties involve controlling the affairs of the group/club, to keep accurate accounts from the Treasurer, to make decisions based on a group and club vote but the chair should have the priority to decide if there is a tie vote.

Discipline and appeals:

If there are any complaints against the club then they need to be sent in writing to the secetory of the commitee. The managment commitee will meet to listen to complaints within a week after the complaint has been seen too.

The commitee has the power to take out any dissiplinary action such as termination of membership. In respect to the person who made the complait a response should be sent back. It's the managment of the commitee who will make a decision on what action to carry out after days of recieving it form the secetory.In the event of a member being asked to resign his membership, no reimbursement of Annual membership fee will be considered.

Any playing member failing to advise the Captain/Vice-Captain, following selection, of his inability to play, shall be subject to suspension, at the discretion of the General Committee

Dissolution:

A resolution to dissolve the club can only be passed at the AGM/EGM through a majority vote form members.

In the event of dissolution, any assets of the club that remain shall become the property of a govering body or a similer club focusing on the same objectives.

Quality assurance:

Every coach or employe should be clean of child protection, H&S and Data protection.

Sponsership, Fundraising and Grants:

Many sport's and recreation clubs operate with limited finances and need to raise additional funds through fundraising, sponsorship or grants. In order to be successful in raising funds for your club it is useful to appoint a dedicated person or establish a committee. The role of such a position or committee would be to:

Aims:

determine what purpose the funds are being raised for

develop a fundraising plan

identify potential sources of funds (eg: sponsorship, grants)

write the grant application or sponsorship proposal

ensure the acquired funds are used for the designated purpose

maintain relationships with donors, grant agencies and sponsors.

Why funding is important?

Club's biggest target is funding. Funding is important to the sports sector because it helps increase participation. It helps purchase equipment improve facilities and finance coaching. We get our funding off the goverment and councils. These are the kinds of grants available:

Programmes need to be formed so that the public know when they are able to access the facilities. Volunteers need to be encouraged to help out develop coaching and increase participation. Competitions events need to be organised to make the sports more enjoyable. Affliation to governing bodies can provide your club with a better everything! such as The National governing bodies of sport. They help provide grants to run programmes to achieve our aims. They are responsible for providing the money from the Nationa lottery. It increases participation in sports and raises the standards of performance, and helps provide information for and about.

Fundraising

A traditional means of raising additional funds is internally through the club members and their family and friends. There are many novel ways to raise funds such as:

* Holdinng events like disco's ect.

* Getting the public involved get them to donate like a collection

* Raffles

* Sponcered events

Sponsorship

Sportsmatch concentrates on improving the participation result in grass-roots and this is their main attraction.It is a sponsership scheme targeted at novice/amateur sport managed by the Institute of Sports sponcership and funded by the department for Culture, media and sport through grant aidby sports england.

Sponcership is a common way of getting funds. But think how many people request sponsors all over the world and as a result it has become very competitive. To get a good deal we have to think about our approach. Not all sponcers involve finanial assistance. They can provide services, personal or products in exchange e.g.-football kit for a football team.

Donations

Never be scared of strangers! There mabye plenty of people who will be willing to donate funds. Ways we can increase our chances of gaining donations is by understanding the individual's or organisation's motivations for donating to sporting and recreational organisations.

Grants

There are lots of grants available.

First application's can be made to he National Governing body which comes under the unbrella of the WNU. It can provide grants for your sports.

You can apply to your local Local Authority which is Cardiff City Council. This is within the local community, this is the main source of funding for facilities, any facilities privatly owned, all areas are locally funded.The administrator of the Local Authority gives grants to our local community's.

There is Grant Aid and a number of goverments that offer this such as the local regonal or national goverment. The National Lottery started in 1984 and it was made for 5 courses and sport was one. The National Lottery-funded Sports Capital Programme, which is advertised on an annual basis, allocates funding to projects that are directly related to the provision of sport or recreational sport facilities and are of a capital nature. Funding can be allocated to the following organisations under the programme:

* voluntary and community organisations, including sports clubs;

* in certain circumstances, schools, colleges and local authorities; and

* national governing bodies of sport and third level education institutions, where it is evident that the proposed facility will contribute to the regional and/or national sporting infrastructure.

''The Sport England Lottery Fund aims to provide more money, facilities and opportunities for sport. Funds are spent on buildings, pitches and equipment, talented athletes of all ages, world class sporting events and a variety of other projects.''

Information on this can found at:

ttp://www.sportengland.org/lottery/lottery_1.htm

The Foundation for sports/arts concentrates on building grants for individual and facilities for foundation for sport from the pools.

''around £60 million annually to donate to sports and arts organisations.''

http://www.sportslinks.info/grantsfoundationforsportsandthearts.htm

Their aim here is to maintain facilities and offer opportunities for the community or assist art or sports provision that the community can enjoy.

Sports Aid charity offers grants to individuals that helps them perfect their training and develop mainly for the individual more than the club.It encourages young and dissabled talent in sports nation wide.

It is funded by the Department of culture, media and sports through England.It's main target is focusing on development in the ethnic minority as this tends to attract less funding than the other groups. It's aim is to invest in ethnic minority such as-Asian woman participating in more sport.

Community Chest grants are offered to projects that encourage greater involvement in local community activities.

Grants are generally between £50 and £5,000, and applications are welcome at any time. There are no deadlines or dates to worry about. Sports England supports building's equppment and gives advice and guidelines.

''currently £3.5 million of government funding is received per year and to date £70 million has been invested into grass roots sport thanks to the Sportsmatch Scheme.''

Most grants awarded are for amounts up to £1,000 and are available to fund groups working with:

* Older people (over 65)

* People with learning disabilities

* People with a physical or sensory impairment

* Children with special needs

* People with mental health problems

* Young people

* Carers

Taxas

Taxas help fund for sports because we get our money off the goverment if we didn't pay these taxas then sport would go down.The number of voluntary sports clubs are decreasing i know this because it's quotes it on the CCPR website.

''Only 22 perecent of clubs income greater than their expenditure and 34 percent described their financial position a precarious.''

Things will get worse without tax exemtions from the goverment.

Legal responsibilities:

A coach is required to obay by the National Governing Body's code of ethics and conduct and as a coach they should have legal responsibilities. they should recognise the importance of Helath and Saftey and treating the public with care.

This means having access to first aid and ermergancy service. A coach can be liable if there is any evidence that shows the standards have not been followed. Checking equppment is safe.

Chilldren need to be protected from any violence or abuse. To ensure this is carried out in the the strictest way coaches need to be checked of any crimminal convictions and show evidence of a clean record.

Coaches should have appropriate insurance which covers both public liability and personal accidents. Many governing bodies include insurance as part of their affiliation fee. Be aware of the Licensing laws such as the code of conduct follow it with great care and accept others too aswel.

Protect the young people you work with maintain a parental relationship with them aswel as a coach. Advice them on healthy eating such as nutrition tell that what's good for them, inform them on the importance of food and hygine,how important it is to eat the right foods and keep clean ect.