Club Natters

Our latest Club Natters podcast explores LGBT+ participation in clubs and discusses the key insight around barriers, enablers and top tips around what you can do to increase participation. Joining us this time is Jamie Hooper (Senior Equality and Diversity Manager at Sport England), Lou Englefield (Director at Pride Sports) and Tom Oliver (Project Officer at Living Sport).This podcast is split into three easily digestible parts that are perfect for lunch breaks and commutes!

Our latest Club Natters podcast explores LGBT+ participation in clubs and discusses the key insight around barriers, enablers and top tips around what you can do to increase participation. Joining us this time is Jamie Hooper (Senior Equality and Diversity Manager at Sport England), Lou Englefield (Director at Pride Sports) and Tom Oliver (Project Officer at Living Sport).This podcast is split into three easily digestible parts that are perfect for lunch breaks and commutes!

Our latest Club Natters podcast explores LGBT+ participation in clubs and discusses the key insight around barriers, enablers and top tips around what you can do to increase participation. Joining us this time is Jamie Hooper (Senior Equality and Diversity Manager at Sport England), Lou Englefield (Director at Pride Sports) and Tom Oliver (Project Officer at Living Sport).This podcast is split into three easily digestible parts that are perfect for lunch breaks and commutes!

Our latest episode of Club Natters really gets under the skin of what makes a great volunteer experience. We hear from Shaun Delaney at the National Council for Volunteer Organisations (NCVO), Claire Colman from Swim England and Rachael Bayley at Ramblers UK. With their help, we provide tips on how you can embed important considerations for the volunteer experience within your organisation. 

Our sixth episode takes a deep-dive into how grassroots clubs/groups can work to increase disabled people's participation in sport and physical activity. New research released by Activity Alliance highlighted a demand for greater training in delivering activities to disabled people. With almost 20% of the population having a disability or a long-term health condition, Club Matters wants to help you ensure your organisation can offer inclusive participation and volunteering opportunities that are appealing, welcoming and accommodating for all. There are lots of things to be considered so we are lucky to have a range of experts from a variety of sports and backgrounds on this episode! 

In this episode we cover the topic of attracting women and girls to your sports club. We kick off by speaking to Lisa O'Keefe, Director of Insight at Sport England, about the latest This Girl Can campaign and what it can teach organisations about getting women through the doors. Jane Ashworth OBE, StreetGames' CEO, also joins us to talk about how to engage with teenage girls, particularly those from low-income families. Finally, footballing legend Rachel Yankey gets on the phone to talk about the growth of girls' football clubs and what clubs and organisations can learn from the rise of women's football. 

Our fourth episode focuses on the important topic of Safeguarding Adults. If your club/organisation has regular contact with the public, you have a crucial role to play in the support, identification and reporting of adults who may be at risk of harm. Getting this right will ensure safe access to sport and physical activity for everyone. In this episode we are joined by Nicola from the Ann Craft Trust, who explains more about Safeguarding Adults, how your club/group can get it right and Safeguarding Adults Week. 

The third episode of Club Natters covers a few important financial matters for clubs and organisations, specifically fundraising and managing that new income. Special guest Dave Boyle guides us through some of the key elements of fundraising, as well as an explanation of the Community Shares model and advice on money management. We also sat down with England Rugby star James Haskell, who chats about his experiences with grassroot sports and shares his message for the important volunteers helping to run clubs up and down the country! 

In our second episode, we're focusing on volunteers. We look at how your club/organisation can attract and keep people in the volunteer roles that are at the core of delivering sport and physical activity. The importance of volunteers at all levels is something Ian Bell MBE is very aware of, and he chats to us about the impact volunteers have had on his own career. Finally, we touch on the subject of promoting lesser-known sports and share some top tips on how to do this! 

In the very first episode of Club Natters, the new podcast from Sport England's Club Matters programme, we kick off by talking to a legal expert about new GDPR regulations and what these mean for sports clubs and groups. Then we catch up with Olympic champions and Hockey legends, Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh, before hearing from two table tennis clubs about how the Clubmark accreditation scheme helped them! We finish up with ‘Ask A Club', our new feature where you can help a fellow club. 

Our sixth podcast focusses on how grassroot clubs and organisations can increase participation in physical activity and sport by disabled people or people with a health condition. New research released by Activity Alliance highlighted a demand for greater training in delivering activities to disabled people. With almost 20% of the population a disabled person or a person with a health condition, Club Matters wants to help support your organisation to ensure that your offer is appealing, welcoming and accommodating for all. We are lucky to have a range of experts from a variety of sports and backgrounds talking on the podcast including UK Coaching, the Activity Alliance, Access Sport and the British Paralympic Association.

Our fifth podcast covers the topic of attracting women and girls to your sports club. Our hosts, Robyn and Glenn, open the podcast by speaking to Lisa O'Keefe, Director of Insight at Sport England, about the latest This Girl Can campaign and what it can teach organisations about getting women through the doors. Jane Ashworth OBE, StreetGames' CEO, also joins us to talk about how to engage with teenage girls, particularly those from low-income families. Finally, footballing legend Rachel Yankey gets on the phone to talk about the growth of girls' football clubs and what clubs and organisations can learn from the rise of women's football.

Our fourth podcast focusses on the important topic of Safeguarding Adults. If your club has regular contact with the public, you have a crucial role to play in the support, identification and reporting of adults who may be at risk of harm. Getting this right in your club will ensure safe access for everyone. Our illustrious hosts are joined in the studio by Nicola from the Ann Craft Trust, who explains more about Safeguarding Adults, how your club can get it right and Safeguarding Adults week (19th -25th November 2018)

The third episode of Club Natters focuses on financial matters, specifically fundraising and managing money once you have raised it. Special guest Dave Boyle helps guide us through the key elements of fundraising: what they entail, what impacts they make and how you can make the most of them. We also sat down with England Rugby star James Haskell to chat about his experiences with grassroot sports. Finally we chat through the biggest challenges small clubs face

Welcome to episode two of Club Natters, the grassroots podcast from Sport England. Our hosts, Glenn Moore and Robyn Cowen, are on hand to guide you through the day-to-day running of a sports club with expert advice, examples of best practice, and interviews with sporting icons. We start by speaking to volunteering expert Kristen Stephenson about all things volunteering including the best ways to attract, train and retain them (4’06). We catch up with ex England Cricket Captain, Ian Bell (14’45), before heading across to Deer Park Archers in Gloucestershire where we talk to them about their Clubmark journey and how it has aided them to thrive as a Club (22’24). We finish up with our ‘Ask a Club’ section finding out the best way to promote minority sports (25’35). www.sportenglandclubmatters.com

Welcome to episode one of Club Natters, the grass roots sports podcast from Sport England. Our hosts, Glenn Moore and Robyn Cowen, are on hand to guide you through the day-to-day running of a sports club, with expert advice, examples of best practice, and interviews with sporting icons. We start by speaking to a legal expert about the upcoming GDPR regulations (3’03), before chatting to Olympic Champion hockey players, Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh (12’52). We then visit two thriving table tennis clubs to hear how they have benefitted from Clubmark (25’05), and finish up with Ask A Club, our new feature where you can help a fellow club (29’21). www.sportenglandclubmatters.com