New Funding for South East Clubs
IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOUR CLUB
As you may have seen from recent news, the RYA has been successful in gaining new funding for the next four years from Sport England. With the 2012 Olympics just around the corner, we have funding to help us develop sailing at all levels. However, the government is focusing on getting 1 million more adults active before the games; this gives us a great opportunity to help you get more adults sailing between now and then whilst continuing to support and grow our youth programmes.
Our youth programmes are flourishing; OnBoard, Team15 and Volvo Champion Club are initiatives that are aimed at getting new kids into the sport and keeping them through racing in sailing and windsurfing. If you are not yet involved in these, I would be happy to speak to you about how you can get involved.
For adult participation we would like to get new adults coming in through our Youth programmes and help all clubs get their current members sailing more often. On my travels around the region and at conferences I have been surveying the clubs and the majority of clubs have around 15% of their membership sailing regularly. This is something we believe clubs would like to increase. How many boats do you have in your boat parks that sail infrequently?
If your club would like help in getting more people sailing then please get in contact to see how we can help.
Andy Hooper
RYA South & South East Regional Development Officer
Tel: 07748 806733
Email: andy.hooper@rya.org.uk
Contact UsArticle Published: November 08, 2011 15:36