How To – Set up a new sports club

Setting up a sports club is really easy!

*  You need enough people who are interested in joining your sports club.
*  You will need to work out where you will train and compete.  Most of our sports clubs currently compete in BUCS.  It is worth noting that if you set up and join half way through a season, fixtures will already be set and so you may need to wait to be entered into a competition.  If this is the case, we may be able to set up some friendlies.
*  You will need some students to volunteer to run the sports club and who are ideally approved by the members.  If there are many students who want to do this, it may be worth running elections.
*  When your sports club has been registered and set up on the website, you need to ask all members to register and join the sports club.

You then have a sports club!

How sports clubs are structured and operate is written comprehensively in the constitution.  However, generally speaking, sports clubs are:

*  Run by students for students
*  Democratically run with annual elections at an Annual General Meeting (AGM)
*  Bound by the rules outlined in the constitution
*  Ratified (agreed) by the Sports Council

Sports Clubs are run by democratically elected Student Executive Members (President, Captain, Secretary etc) for their members.

Sports Clubs will liaise with Julia Longhurst regarding their weekly fixtures who will provide you with the necessary training.  If you have any additional questions, please email [email protected]

As well as these pages, there are also lots of useful documents to assist you with running your sports club listed below.

There is a general Sports Club Handbook (see under Downloads) which also has the key points of how to run a society.

There is a blank risk assessment form below for all clubs to submit a risk assessment for their general sporting activities.  All completed risk assessments should be forwarded to Julia at [email protected].

There is a trip registration form below which students must use if they want to plan a trip away - this can be a championship event or tournament which involves an overnight stay.