Volunteers are central to providing opportunities to play sport,
whether helping to run sports clubs, helping in school sport or at
sports events. This volume focuses on the volunteers who support
clubs. Approximately 150,000 sports clubs in the UK are supported
by volunteers in roles such as coaches, treasurers, membership
secretaries and other formal roles, as well as a myriad of other
volunteers who help on a more informal basis. This structure of
clubs run by volunteers is common to other countries; such as
Germany, Canada, Finland and Australia. It is a valuable community
resource; not only for the opportunities it provides for sports
participation but also the more general contribution to the quality
of communities. This club structure has been central to government
policy to increase sports participation and has developed from the
second half of the 19th century. Yet its maintenance relies on a
nucleus of core volunteers in each club who take the major roles.
Recruiting new volunteers - especially for these core roles - is
always difficult. Despite central government in the UK having a
commitment to developing volunteering, clubs are having to adjust
to new relationships with local government as funding and subsidy
of facility use is reduced. Trends in sports participation are away
from the traditional team sports and towards more individual
participation. Club members may demand an experience benchmarked
against private or local government providers; regarding the club
as providing a service as much as an organisation they contribute
to. The chapters in this book contribute an international
perspective to understanding these issues. It will be of great
value to community sport leaders and scholars of sport sociology
and leisure studies. This book was published as a special issue of
the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.
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