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Grassroots Governance: The 7 Fs Framework

Join us for a discussion of governance in grassroots sports organisations, the challenges they face and how good governance practices are being embedded in clubs with limited resources and a reliance volunteers.

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Overview

Time: 11:00-12:00 (GMT)

Date: Wed 5 March 2025

Location: Online (sign up below)

Grassroots sports organisations are a bedrock of the country's sporting, social and cultural life. They are often our first point of contact with both the delivery and administration of sport. They are also subject to changing attitudes to governance and are uniquely vulnerable to a range of pressures: policy, societal, economic and environmental, to name a few.

In this webinar, we look some of the ways in which grassroots sport is responding to these challenges, the extent to which the improved governance practices that we are increasingly accustomed to seeing in larger bodies 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.

The session will look in detail at the 7 Fs Framework, an aid for practitioners of club governance which summarises key governance aims, purposes and practices within a memorisable model. 

The webinar accompanies the latest in our Essays in Sports Governance series, Organisational governance & grassroots sports clubs, written by the two guests. The essay can be downloaded:

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Speakers

Dr. Christopher Gunn - Lecturer at University of Central Lancashire

Geoff Walters - Professor at University of Liverpool

Craig Beeston - Programme Manager at the Sports Governance Academy

Our webinars provide accessible content on core topics and topical issues in sports governance, and the opportunity for live engagement with expert session leaders. 

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