SPORTS DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

A Sports Development Plan is a document, which looks at the future

development of sports clubs step by step. It enables the club to look at:
1 - Where it is now?
2 – Where it would like to be?
3 – How it will get there?

Sports Development Plans are crucial to attract funding and essential in

developing, improving, growing, changing direction and setting new goals for
your club.

WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

Gather information to build a detailed picture of your organisation as it is
today. If your planning is to be successful, you need a clear starting point
based on factual information and providing firm foundations on which to build.
Probably the best way to answer this question is to imagine you are carrying
out a very thorough audit of your organisation.

Membership

How many members do you have?

How many boys/men/girls/women?
Their ages?
Where do they come from?
What are their levels of ability?
How much do they pay?
Did membership increase, decrease or remain the same last year?
If decreased, why?
How do you attract new members?

Activities

What do you offer members?

What is the main purpose of your organisation?
How many training sessions do you run each week?
Do you offer only sporting activities, or do people have the opportunity to
socialise?
Do you have links with schools/other clubs?
How do your activities dovetail with other community sports?

Coaches/Officials

How many coaches/officials do you have?

Are they fully qualified?
What coach education courses have they attended this year?
Are they child protection trained?

Buildings/Equipment
Do you own your own building/lease a building/rent a room? Where?
Is it accessible to ALL?
What equipment do you own? What condition?
Do you have an assets register?
Do you have a sinking fund for maintenance and replacement of equipment?

Committee

How many members do you have?

Who does what?
Do you have a constitution?
Do you have aims and objectives?
Do you have an equal opportunities policy?
Do you have sub-groups?

SWOT Analysis

Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE?

What would you like to see in place at your club in three or four years’ time?
Agree a vision of the future and a time-scale within which to work.
Look at the last section. Do you need more, better or different of anything?
Break the vision down into bite-sized objectives and prioritise them.

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET THERE?

List the main tasks and identify the resources you need to achieve each goal.

Create an action plan and allocate responsibility for each task to individuals or
working groups.

Stick to the plan and use it to monitor progress as you carry out each task and
bring the vision to life.

Examples of sports development/action plans can be seen on the next

few pages. These plans are real and active plans produced by various
Barrow sports clubs.
 Objective How Where With Whom When Cost
Recruit and train - But into next Approved FA - FA staff July 2004 - Level 1 - £75 per
more coaches training courses venues - Community reps person
- Invitation to local - Over 16’s - Level 2 - ?
football clubs - Parents
Develop indoor - Forge partnerships Identified indoor - Qualified coaches October 2004 Fee per sessions
youth football with schools and facilities for a 5-a- - PE Staff
Connexions side league, ie. - Young people
- After school clubs Dalton sports hall
- Establish 5-a-side
- Attend Junior
Managers Course
Establish indoor - Taster sessions Dalton Sports Hall - Coaches September 2005 A fee per session
girls football - Come and try - PE staff
sessions after - Schools
school and in - Connexions
school
Develop indoor - Advertising Dalton Sports Hall - Club coaches October 2005 Advertising costs
adult football through local press
- Create links with
local clubs
Establish winter - Form 5-a-side Dalton Sports Hall - Club committee September 2005 Fee for hire of
league teams from indoor sports hall
youth, girls and
adult teams

Junior Football Club

Sports Development Plan 2002 – 2005

Sailing Club
Sports Development Plan 2000 – 2005

Objective How Timescale Who

Develop youth policy
Improve dinghy section
Recruit and train more
coaches
- Establish links with schools, Begin April 2003 - Boat club commi
Ocean Youth Club, Voyager, - Junior coaches
Youth Clubs, Connexions - Sailing clubs
and Sea Cadets - Schools
- Attend Develop a Junior - Connexions
Section and Child Protection - Probation service
workshops
- Taste sessions, outreach
work and beginners classes
- Invest in more dinghies Begin June 2003 - Dinghy section co
- Outreach recruitment - Boat club commi
- Launch point
- Improve storage
- Recruit local community, Begin September 2003 - Boat club commi
parents, school teachers - Local community

Establish windsurfing section
Develop educational
programme
Improve facilities
- Bu into next regional - Over 16’s
training courses
- Provide access to a wealth
boating qualification
- Recruit casual windsurfers May 2004 - Boat club commi
- Adapt facilities - Casual windsurfe
- Recruit and train more
specialised coaches
- Host competitions
- Provide a learning September 2004 - Local schools
environment - Boat club commi
- Outreach work in schools
and youth clubs
- Attract funding to improve May 2005 - Boat club commi
the boat clubs facilities and - Council for Volun
cater developments in the Service
plan - BBC and CCC

Volleyball
Sports Development Plan 2000 – 2005
Pathway Objectives People Support
Organisations
Getting Started - Increase number of - Teachers at Dowdales - EVA End of 2
coaches through School - Ulverston and Barrow
training courses - User groups Volleyball Clubs
- Involve target group - Parents
Basic Skills - Taught in schools - Teachers at Dowdales - Barrow & Ulverston Summe
- User groups coaching School Volleyball Clubs
small groups - Pupils
- User groups
- Young people
Keeping Going - 4x4 competitions to - Local people - Barrow & Ulverston End of 2
promote volleyball - Interested players Volleyball Clubs
- Triangular - User groups
tournaments
- Foundation of Dalton
Volleyball Club

Getting Better - Entry into regional and - Members and - EVA By 2003
national comps. interested players - North of England VA
- Entry into the - Lancashire league
Lancashire league
Disabled Groups - Establish wheelchair - Disabled /able bodied - EVA Commissioner By end
league members - Local disabled groups
- Sitting volleyball - User groups
- Integrated volleyball
Recreational/Health - Older targets groups - Over 45’s - Local sports clubs By 2005
- Recreational outlets

Athletics
Sports Development Plan 2001 – 2005
Objective How When Who
Recruit and train 1 – Recruit 10 people 1 – August 2001 - PE Staff To have
more coaches 2 – Buy into the next regional 2 – June 2002 - Parents coaches
coaching course 3 – On going - Ex-athletes 2002
3 – Hold workshops for local groups - Disabled sport reps.
on sport and benefits - Youth Service
Increase 1 – Taster sessions in schools 1 – Every 4 weeks - PE Staff To doub
membership 2 – Come and try days 2 – School - Coaches membe
3 – Hold a sports festival holidays - Centre committee 2002
4 – Publicity in local media 3 - Summer - Volunteers
5 – Concessions in membership 4 – As and when
fees appropriate
6 – Links with schools, youth clubs
and sports clubs
Establish a cross 1 – Publicise cross country track at 1 – November - PE Staff To esta
country league Park Vale 2002 - Centre committee January
2 – Generate interest through local
fun runs and fell races
3 – Inter school competitions
4 – After school cross country clubs
Provide a 1 – Liase with disability sport group, 1 – January 2002 - Centre committee Implem
comprehensive to agree programme 2 – August 2002 - Coaches by June
programme for 2 – Generate interest through taster 3 – June 2003 - Disability sport group
people with days 4 – May 2004
disabilities 3 – Implement programme
4 – Look at integrated programme
Establish a sports 1 – Sessions in individual primary 1 – Weekly, during - Coaches To esta
hall athletic schools Sept. & Oct. 2001 - PE Staff January
league 2 – Inter-schools competition 2 – November - Volunteers
3 – Generate enough interest to 2001 - Disability sport reps.
start league 3 – January 2004 - Youth Service

Junior Football Club

Sports Development Plan
Objective How Where With Whom When
Establish girls Apply for funding George Romney GR and DT 2003/04 season
football from Awards For All School Achieved
Build changing Fundraising Dowdales All coaches 2003/04 season
rooms Achieved
Standardise football Fundraising and Local events All coaches 2004/05 season
kit sponsorship Achieved
Obtain crash mats Apply for funding Training grounds Goalkeeper coach Within 3 months
for goalkeeping from Furness
practice Community Chest
Access minibus for Apply for funding Local car dealers Chairperson and Within 6 months
away matches from BBSC relevant coaches
Hire local swimming Contact pool Dalton Leisure All teams Within 3 months
pool once a week manager Centre
for fitness training
Train coaches to Attend next course Furness College All available As and when
next level when available. coaches and necessary
Access funding assistants
Partake in more Look at tournament Where tournaments Tournament Yearly
tournaments websites or are, or use local organisers and local
organise one locally football grounds coaches to organise
events
Up date worn and Apply for funding All teams, as and All coaches When applicable
old equipment from FCN when necessary
Club to have own Gain assistance Within Dalton Chairperson and Within 10years
ground from Football coaches
Foundation