Administration and Finance

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Bookkeeping Essentials

This four hour interactive course provides a thorough introduction into the bookkeeping requirements when running a small business or club, designed to ensure you meet HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) requirements and to provide you with the essential financial information you need to run your business/club.

£40 per person

For more details and to book a place click here. Please note bookings are not being made by Active Gloucestershire for this course.

CLUB GOVERNANCE

This two hour interactive workshop provides an essential guide to the legal requirements of running a sports club for those on a club committee, including answers to the following common queries:

• What legal form should the club take?
• How can the club protect members from financial liability?

• What responsibilities do committee members have?

• What benefits does CASC or Charitable status offer?

• What types of insurance should the club have in place and when?

• What 'reasonable care' obligations does the club have in terms of insurance cover?

£40 per person

Bookings for this course are being taken by Active Gloucestershire.

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How to Get Tax Breaks for your Club

This workshop helps to explain the new tax breaks available through Community Amateur Sports Clubs status. You can learn how to go about paying considerably less tax in order to allow you to spend more where it counts - on your club.

Costs TBC

This workshop is currently under review by RunningSport and will be organised on a needs basis when availble.

To register your interest in this course click here.

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Making the most of your People

This workshop shows you how to put together a workforce development plan. An effective one will help your club achieve its vision and improve your chances of benefiting from funding for skill building.

Costs TBC

This workshop will be run on a needs basis. To register your interest in this course click here.

Role of the Volunteer Coordinator

Clubs will benefit greatly from having a volunteer coordinator - a single contact who supports their volunteers, knows them all by name and what each of them does.

In this workshop, volunteers will learn exactly what this role entails and how they can become an even greater asset to their club by taking it on.

£35 per person

Valuing your Sports Volunteers

Valuing Your Sports Volunteers' will help you to recruit more volunteers, motivate, retain, reward and manage them even more effectively.

Costs TBC

This workshop will be run on a needs basis. To register your interest in this course click here.

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Developing Parnerships with Clubs and Schools

This workshop aims to develop school and sport organisation partnerships to provide young people with quality opportunities to progress in sports from schools to clubs.

Young people are the future of sports, and it is important that they are able to move from school to an adult environment that is of high quality, attractive to them, and that helps them progress in their chosen sport.

£35 per person

Business Essentials Course

• LEGAL STATUS - The options available for the legal status of a coaching/club business (Sole Trader, Limited Company, Industrial & Provident Society, CASC, Charity, etc) and the liability and tax implications relating to each.
• SELF-EMPLOYMENT STATUS - The guidelines that must be met for a sports coach to be accepted as self-employed when working for a client - substitution, control of the programme and financial risk, how to practically satisfy the guidelines (particularly if using hourly paid coaches) and the key wording needed in a robust self-employment contract (supplied to delegates on the course).
• BOOKKEEPING AND TAX - How best to meet the HMRC requirements and ensure you are prepared for a tax inspection.
• ALLOWABLE EXPENSES - The types of allowable expenses that can (and can't) be claimed for in sports coaching - travel, use of home, clothing, equipment, etc.
• INSURANCE - The insurance cover that both coach and client must and should have in place to meet health and safety requirements.

£45 per person (please check all charges though GB Sport as Active Gloucestershire can not guarentee charges are up to date) - to make a booking please go to GB Sport, click here.

• Thursday 22nd March 2012, 10am - 2pm. University of Gloucestershire's Oxstalls Campus, GL2 9HW.

For more details and to book a place click here. Please note bookings are not being made by Active Gloucestershire for this course.

MARKETING ESSENTIALS

What are the essential elements you must put in place to market your programme/club successfully and develop a unique 'brand'?

This four hour interactive course introduces the concept of successful marketing for sports coaches and clubs - defining and building a brand, developing and implementing an effective and practical marketing plan, how to monitor and evaluate the results, and great examples of good practice.

The course includes advice and guidance on the following:

• BRANDING What is a brand and how to build one that will professionalise your services and increase your income

• PLANNING How to put together a business/marketing plan that is simple to use and update, including examples of the key essentials all good sports marketing plans should contain

• MARKET RESEARCH The key elements you need when researching your brand and competitors with practical ideas and examples

• FIRST IMPRESSIONS Why first impressions count - appearance, punctuality, facilities, your team - and we review best practice for customer care

• SOCIAL MEDIA How to use Facebook and Twitter to bring your services into the 21 st century and increase your profile and income

• GOOD PRACTICE Case studies showing some of the best ideas we have come across in sport for you to implement in your programme

£45 per person (please check all charges though GB Sport as Active Gloucestershire can not guarentee charges are up to date) - to make a booking please go to GB Sport, click here.

• Friday 23rd March 2012, 10am - 2pm. University of Gloucestershire's Oxstalls Campus, GL2 9HW.

For more details and to book a place click here. Please note bookings are not being made by Active Gloucestershire for this course.

MARKETING BASICS FOR SPORTS CLUBS

This two hour interactive workshop provides an essential guide to the marketing and branding of a sports club, including:

• Making a good first impression
• What the customer wants and expects
• Planning and pricing your services
• Branding
• Details of real-life examples of successful schemes in sport

What are the essential elements you must put in place to market yourprogramme successfully and develop a unique 'brand'? This section of the course introduces the concept of successful marketing - why appearance/behaviour matters, how to price your sessions and services, and how to develop an effective and cost efficient marketing campaign.

We outline best practice examples from sports coaching programmes throughout Britain on schemes and practices designed to attract more customers into your programme and we provide you with a unique resource pack with all you need to immediately implement the ideas on the course.

£40 per person

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