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Guidance and support

There are lots of ways we can help support you and your organisation. Whether you’re looking advice on facilities or support developing a safeguarding strategy, we've outlined how you can access our services.

Overview

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We offer a variety of services to support you and your organisation.

Here we’ll explain the ways we can help you to encourage more people to take part in and enjoy sport and physical activity.

Topics

If you're looking for guidance about a specific topic, we've collated everything we have about facilities and planning, safeguarding and the ongoing recovery from coronavirus.

Facilities and planning

It’s vital people have access to high-quality facilities and the area they live is designed in a way that encourages people to get active. We offer advice and support to help those involved in facility management and the planning system to achieve this.

Facilities and planning

Safeguarding

We’re committed to ensuring that children and adults can enjoy sport and physical activity safe from harm, abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect. We have a range guidance to help support everyone in the sport sector to safeguard those at risk.

Safeguarding

Coronavirus

Our coronavirus hub has information on our funding packages to help you through this crisis, the flexibility we've introduced on our existing support, and more.

Coronavirus: information and support

Roles

If you're in a specific role, or want to find out more about what we have to help those in specific roles in our sector, we've collated information for volunteers, grassroots organisers, schools and teachers, national governing bodies and evaluators.

National governing bodies

Across England there are many different national governing bodies (NGBs) who have responsibility for managing their specific sport. Here we outline how our expertise helps NGBs across a range of issues, and give information on the sports and governing bodies we recognise.

National governing bodies guidance

Volunteers

From knowing the law to providing the best support, we’ve compiled answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about volunteering, to help your organisation or project flourish while giving volunteers the best experience possible.

Volunteering Q&A

Grassroots organiser

We know sports clubs and activity groups provide a brilliant structure to get people playing active but that running an organisation can be quite a difficult, and a sometimes thankless, task. Our Buddle website has free guidance, support and learning on all aspects of running a club.

Organisation support

Teachers and schools

Many people’s first memories of taking part in sport are at school, and the experience they have can have a lasting impact on their attitude to physical activity for the rest of their lives. That’s why we offer free training to teachers to help foster a more positive attitude to PE in schools.

Secondary teacher training

Evaluators

Findings from our evaluations and guidance for anyone involved in evaluating projects as part of Uniting the Movement.

Evaluation and learning

Resources

Whether you want resources to learn how to marker you physical activity opportunity, free images to help your marketing, or tools to assess the impact of your project, we're here to help.

Image library

Whether it's for a brochure, banner, leaflet or report, we've got a wide selection of high quality sport and physical activity images that are free for you to use.

Image library

Digital Marketing Hub

We’ve worked with The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity to provide a hub of information aimed at improving the digital marketing skills of our sector as they look to re-engage people with sport and activity.

Digital Marketing Hub

Measuring impact

We want organisations to consider not just how they contribute to the nation’s health or wellbeing, but to the national and local economy as well. Our MOVES and Economic Value of Sport: Local Model tools help you do this.

Measure impact

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