Why is there a review of sport? Isn’t
everything fine as it is?
• Well yes, everything is fine. But it’s exactly that,
just fine. Sport could be even better and as a
consequence of the review, we will see more
resource than ever pumped into sport at
Warwick.
• Sports Clubs are an extremely important aspect
of Warwick Sport, hence the desire to increase
resource and support them further.
It’s more than that though. The current
model for sport is not sustainable:
• People who buy a £55 WS Membership currently
see £38 of their money go to fund Sports Clubs and
only £17 actually goes towards other activity.
• This is disproportionate to the costs attributed to
the activities.
• In order to grow and develop club and non-club
activity, we need to restore that balance in order to
invest resource in both activities.
Also the systems and processes are messy
and inefficient:
• Conflicting communication – money held in SU,
payments signed off at the Sports Centre…
• No clear guidelines for who makes decisions
involving clubs, the SU or Warwick Sport.
• Duplications of services, but also gaps.
The fundamental idea is to play to each
organisation’s strengths to support sports
clubs in the most efficient way possible.
• The SU has established support for Societies
including for trips, balls, events, marketing, etc.
• Warwick Sport has expertise in sports development,
connections with NGBs and a strong performance
programme.
We want to utilise these expertise for the benefit of
clubs.
It sounds very complicated, but actually, on a
day to day basis operationally there will not be
a huge amount of difference for you guys.
Except for, hopefully, some noticeable
improvements!
I’ll talk through some tangible examples now.
Club grants
• These will remain at £152,735, for distribution between the clubs
Sports Administrators
• The Sports Administrator for BUCS (Tom) and for Finance &
Transport (Hollie) will still be in the Sports Centre next year
Headline Events
• Varsity, Sports Ball and Sports Fair will still be organising and
resourced by the SU
Warwick Active
• Jen will still oversee the participation programme and we hope that
clubs will continue to get more and more engaged with that
Performance Programme
• Lisa will still oversee the Focus Team and Scholarship programmes
Prices
• Unfortunately, there will be a price increase next year for most club
members. This is partially to restore the costs proportional to
activity, as I mentioned earlier, and partially to invest in developing
sports clubs.
Additional staff
• There will be the most staff resource we’ve ever had for clubs, with
a new Club Development Officer post
More money available to clubs
• There will be more money available for clubs, beyond your club
grant, to bid for through the Club Development programme
Website
• Warwick Sport have launched a new website and as part of the
review, all resources for clubs will be in one place (yippee!)
User Group (% of
members)
Warwick
Sport
Membership
Sport
Federation Fee
Warwick
Sport Club
Package
Club
Membership
(per club)
Total
Club Members (60%)
£55
-
-
£6
£61
Non Club Members (39%)
£55
-
-
-
£55
-
£30
£25
£6
£61
Club - Facility Users (47%) £58
£30
-
£6
£94
Non Club Members (39%)
-
-
-
£58
Current:
Future:
Club - Non Facility Users
(14%)
£58
Not everyone will see an increase!
o 25% of current club members will pay the same in year 1
o 53% of all members don’t pay more
Their responsibilities will include:
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o
o
o
Managing the Kitemark programme
Managing the Club Development Programme budget
Being the link between Sports Clubs and Warwick Sport – main point of contact for
you in Warwick Sport
Managing partnerships:
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
NGBs
County Sport Partnership
BUCS
Sport England
Annual development plan meetings with Clubs
Support for Sports Officer
Proactively supporting growth and development of the club infrastructure including
developing funding applications
Supporting and facilitating links into wider Warwick Sport programmes
o
o
o
o
All Sports Club resources in one place – ‘Exec Area’
Easier to navigate
One stop shop for sport!
Clever system to make joining clubs simple
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/sport
o We are aware of a possibility to let Sports Clubs
have their own brand within sport at Warwick, if
you want to.
o For example, Bath and Durham brand their Sports
Clubs as Team Bath and Team Durham, which
gives them their own identity.
o This is something to think about over the next 12
months and we’ll be asking for your ideas, so
think about how you want to be recognised!
o Don’t panic about the review.
o If your members ask questions that you can’t answer, then explain that
they are welcome to email me to find out all the details, but in terms of
their experience, there will be no noticeable change for members except
for an improvement (extra money for their clubs and more opportunities
through the Club Development Officer).
o The biggest change is of course the price increase. I will work with Ruby
to produce a document that you can give to members explaining the
price increase and why it’s happening.
o In terms of changes for Exec – operationally it is more staff support and
resources moving on the website to one, easy to find place.
*End of session*
This has been a super quick overview, so if you
have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to email
me (sports@warwicksu.com)!