Club Development Scotland, through SD Scotland, is pleased to confirm it will be delivering consultancy and support to AM Soccer Club on a one-day-a-week basis. The Fife club (with charitable status), established by Heart’s Assistant Manager Austin MacPhee, have grown to a notable size and provides football coaching to over 500 players. The organisation has had national…
Community Asset Transfers – Scottish FA Guide for Community Clubs
The Scottish FA have published a guide detailing how clubs could potentially benefit from Community Asset Transfers. As the document states: ‘With the advent of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015, the opportunities for clubs and community organisations to undertake long-term leases and acquire facilities through ‘Community Asset Transfer’ will continue to increase over the coming…
FUNDING: Jewson’s Building Better Communities
Jewson’s have put £250,000 up for grabs to help transform local communities. In 2016 they gave away £250,000 to buildings that really make a difference in communities and you can nominate a project for this year’s fund before Friday 5th May. The prize fund is open to applications to help with renovations large or small. Sport…
You Can’t Improve What You Don’t Measure – Social Return on Investment
‘It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.’ – John Maynard Keynes Last year, I attended a two day training course on ‘Social Return on Investment’ (SROI). SROI is a process through which you can determine an approximate (this is important to note) financial value of the social and community work delivered relative to…
BLOG: Create Fans, Not Customers
My girlfriend’s Mum bought me a bottle of Brewdog’s 5AM Saint as a stocking filler for Christmas. I’d never really fancied myself as much as a craft beer drinker, often preferring my more ‘safe’ (or bland if you like) larger, however I soon realised I’d been missing out. A couple of days after losing my…
FUNDING: Comic Relief – Levelling the Field
This is a £1 million initiative funded by Comic Relief and the Treasury to support projects in the UK. Applications are welcome for a minimum of £30,000 and a maximum of £250,000, over a period of between 12 and 36 months. Comic Relief are encouraging a variety of different types of projects. This could be a…
Club Development Scotland Assist Annan Athletic With Ownership Restructure
We’re delighted to be supporting Annan Athletic via our Club Development service in their proposed ownership restructure. We’ve been advising and working with the club for the past year and are looking forward to attending their Open Meeting on the 19th of January where we will be on hand to answer any questions regarding the proposed…
Fairtrade: A Game Changer for Football
By Andrew Jenkin, November 2015. If the revelations being squeezed out of the FIFA scandal have taught me anything, it is that some people cannot be trusted to maintain a level of integrity within football. Some of the people who ought to be protecting and raising the standards, expectations and levels of trust within the game have been…
Funding: Big Lottery Community Assets
Through Community Assets grants, The Big Lottery aim to “empower people to create strong and resilient communities by helping them to acquire, manage or develop assets such as buildings or land.” As our mission at Club Development Scotland is to; “Enable the development of sustainable clubs based on community involvement and ownership” this fund sits very comfortably…
FUNDING: Community capacity & resilience fund
This fund could apply to sport clubs that use sport as a vehicle to make concerted efforts to engage with their communities most vulnerable and offer greater social benefits. The details below are from Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisation’s website, where you can apply for funding. Third sector organisations can develop their community organisation’s capacity to tackle…
BLOG: Barcelona city and a Culture of Exercise?
My girlfriend and I recently took a week’s annual leave and headed for Barcelona for a short getaway. It’s a city I’d never visited but after our first evening there, I was soon pleased with our decision. The city itself is incredibly well designed and we were able to walk to all our points of interest…
FUNDING: The Aviva Community Fund
About The Aviva Community Fund is offering up to £25,000 to local community projects across the UK. It’s a competition rather than a straightforward grant application and relies on you winning a public vote. There’s a total pot of £1.5m. The Aviva Community Fund offers you the chance to get funding for an important cause in…
