For further information on the support available across Club Matters, visit our Get Started with Club Matters section.
Keep it up
If your club wants to maintain what it has, or check you’re doing the best you can, we recommend exploring our main topic areas in more detail.
Sign-up to workshops which cover key topic areas such as business planning, marketing, club structures, finances and tax.
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Click on these boxes to access toolkits, online modules and interactive content. Have a look around to see which areas your club could benefit from.
For further information on the support available across Club Matters, visit our Get Started with Club Matters section.
Get back on track
My club is struggling on one or more areas and is looking for specific guidance.
We need help growing or maintaining our membership levels We need to manage our finances better We are looking for guidance on applying for funding We need more volunteers to help run our club We are unsure what good governance really means or how we can improve We don’t know if our club’s legal structure is right for us We need support with our facilities or lack of facilities We want to better understand our members and what they want from the club
Top Tips
1. Think about the best way to market your club to reach potential new members
2. Make sure your club is welcoming and inclusive to appeal to new members
3. Make your club experience extraordinary, so that your current members want to stay
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Check out the following pages for specific guidance:
If your club is keen to develop and you want to improve your current offer, we recommend using our Club Improvement Tool.
The tool prompts you to think about how your club is performing now and where you would like it to be in the future. Based on your responses, the tool directs you to specific resources to help you reach your goals.
Leatherhead bowling Club is no stranger to achieving Clubmark accreditation. The club was first accredited 4 years ago, via the Clubmark paper based system. The club then successfully achieved their re-accreditation through theClubmark online portal. In fact, Leatherhead Bowls were the first Club in Surrey to achieve Clubmark. Their Assessor James Lovell, from Active Surry comments “Leatherhead Bowls was the first club we helped through the online process - so it was a learning curve for both of us.”
The biggest difference between the paper based system and the new Clubmark online portal was the structure provided by the club improvement tool. According to Club Secretary David Lokkerbol, the online portal helped with many aspects of club improvement, ranging from “a framework for modernising club management practices” to “helping persuade the local Council to grant a favourable and extended lease for our Clubhouse.”
For many clubs, taking on so much at once would seem a daunting task. However using the Clubmark online portal, theclub development plan, tools and resources available on the Club Matters website, Leatherhead Bowls have achieved it all!
David comments “As a result of Clubmark, our processes are now in very good shape and have proven robust. Our recruitment now runs at about 10% per year, we have a good lease for 25 years, we have achieved additional funding from 2 providers to date and are hopeful of a third to complete the funding of a new clubhouse.”
Leatherhead Bowling have subsequently become an exemplary role model to other clubs, and have offered to support other clubs going through the online accreditation process.
Watch the video below to find out more about Leatherhead Bowls success with achieving their Clubmark accreditation:
Are you in the process of getting your Clubmark accreditation? Have your questions answered and the support you need by reaching out to other clubs via the Clubmark Assessor meeting place!
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