Starting Your Club
Your first meeting
Meetings are the most simple and effective method of reaching agreed decisions for your sports club. It’s a good idea to arrange an initial meeting to get your club up and running. If your meetings involve the necessary people and run smoothly, you’ll be able to achieve good results.
Here’s a checklist to make sure your first meeting runs well:
- Make sure that everyone involved understands the reason for the meeting.
- Make sure everyone knows about it well in advance – it’s sensible to remind people the day before.
- Check that the time and venue fit in with people’s prior commitments (work, children etc).
- Any paperwork required (e.g. a list of aims of the club, required resources etc) has gone to everyone invited to the meeting beforehand.
- Any jobs that need undertaking for the meeting have been assigned and completed in time for the meeting.
The first meeting for your sports club is a great time to get people enthused about your new club. There are many other types of meetings that your club will need to have as it grows and develops; these can be both formal and informal.
The committees, roles and running meetings section ob Club Kit has more information on types of meetings and meeting templates that your club can use.
