Good Practice

Some examples of good work by professionals to develop sport and physical activity volunteering
EU funded youth leadership conference
  • The Amateur Swimming Association have produced a superb video showing clubs what can happen if they work with their local volunteer centre.

  • CSW Sport (a CSP) have been working with their local Infrastructure Consortium to support sports clubs in their area - read how here.

  • Malvern Hills District Council have made a great partnership with V involved and the Step Into Sport programme, and it's making great strides.

  • Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Sports Volunteering Action Group - is, as far as we know, unique in that it brings partners from volunteering and sport together...  find out more here.

  • Staffordshire Moorlands were a pilot for the 2012 Sports Volunteering Project - read more here.

  • Running a Big Event? - read this case study - PDF - 361kb of how Coventry Half Marathon worked with parters to make their life a lot easier.

  • Rugby Community Sports and Physical Activity Network have been developing new partnerships - read more here.

  • Want to share your good practice or learn from other partners from around Europe - Birmingham University organised a Youth Sports Leaders Conference (picture above) with money from the EU, read more here.

  • Chase Swimming Club are a forward thinking and ambitious club, read about how they worked with their local CVS here.

  • NAVCA did some pilot development work as part of partnership work with Sport England - you can read about their work here - www.navca.org.uk/localvs/goodprac/sport/Home.htm 

  • Dudley CVS have spent a lot of time and effort engaging with sport, and produce a monthly e-newsletter, unfortunately I can't get copies onto this site, but email support@dudleycvs.org.uk for your copy of the latest version.


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