The Board Development Fund is back for 2025! Applications are now open.
Watch the recording from our drop-in session to support you with your application and to find out how the fund will benefit your organisation.
Applications close 17 April 2025.
Zak Mohammed from Databloom Partners gives us an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI and AI Governance.
In the latest of their insight pieces from BDO, Sherv Cheung and others explore how Social Impact Bonds can be used to unlock finance to deliver sport and physical activity provision.
BDO Insights: The role of Social Impact Bonds in community sport and physical activity
Berks & Bucks FA talk us through the development and implementation of their League Governance Code, an initiative to improve governance at the local, grassroots level. The Code was the joint winner of the SGA Sports Governance Project of the Year in 2024.
Sean Yue, Psychology Research Assistant at InnerDrive, provides tips on building resilience in individuals and teams.
Catch up on our first webinar of the year looking at how grassroots governance is adapting to modern challenges. Recording available now!
The Sports Governance Academy is the governance support hub for the sports and physical activity sector across the UK. We help everyone leading, working and volunteering in sports organisations to develop good governance in order to achieve their goals.
The SGA provides a trusted set of free resources that support all areas of governance activity. Our guidance, templates, checklists, webinars and blogs are designed to help you get to grips with governance and drive success in your organisation.
Our practical training will build your governance skills and confidence.
Our community is an active network of like-minded people who are facing similar governance challenges and opportunities in the sport sector. Being part of it enables you to draw upon the support and experience of others and creates new opportunities for collaboration.
We see governance not as a burden, but as an enabler of your organisation's performance.
Done well, governance can help you to thrive and meet your goals, be open and accountable and build trust with your stakeholders. Done poorly, it leaves organisations, those who work in them and those they serve, vulnerable and at risk.
So, what does good sports governance look like?
In the first of a regular insights column, Gurpreet Dulay and Max Armstrong from BDO share their thoughts on risk and risk management in the sports sector, drawing on the work they routinely engage in with bodies, large and small.
This essay presents the findings of research which focused on three grassroots sports organisations and takes a fresh, in-depth look at the governance practices of voluntary sports clubs.
It looks at some of the ways in which grassroots sport is responding to the challenges it faces, the extent to which the improved governance practices are manifested further down the sector’s ecosystem, and what this looks like in practice for clubs with little resource and which rely so heavily on volunteers to function.
Bradley Busch, chartered psychologist and Director at InnerDrive, shares insights from his experience and upcoming book which can help all of us improve the decision making in our organisations.
One to Watch winner 2024, Jessica Melling, tells us about her career, route into the profession and her work at British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS).
In the second of their regular insights columns, Gurpreet Dulay and Max Armstrong from BDO share their thoughts on fraud: key areas of risk and simple safeguards organisations should have in place to mitigate against these.
Sean Yue, Psychology Research Assistant at InnerDrive, provides tips on building resilience in individuals and teams.
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