Your place to experience the wonders of community sport and physical activity
Presenting Buddle, here to provide free learning and support resources to inspire and strengthen clubs and community organisations offering sport and physical activity – and the professionals who work with them.
Find out more about the importance of planning, marketing and communications, and engaging with your local community to help your club or organisation develop and grow.
Whether you're an established organisation or just starting out, we've got some great advice for you. Maybe you need the perfect venue. Or more volunteers. Just dive in...
All growing groups need someone who's got their back. That's us. You can use our handy Health Check Tool or Disability Inclusion Hub to see where you're doing well and where there's room for improvement
Learn about the interactive and diagnostic tool designed to help you understand your strengths and identify any areas for development to ensure you're providing a safe environment, while meeting your legal requirements.
Find out about the importance of creating partnerships in your local community, including steps to help you to succeed, and find tips to make the most of sporting event opportunities.
Find out about volunteer motivations, different ways of engaging people, the importance of creating a meaningful experience and some top tips for retaining volunteers.
Policies and risk assessments are essential to running a sport and physical activity organisation - learn more about developing your own, and what you need to know should the worst happen and you find yourself needing to perform CPR or use a defibrillator.
Explore a wide range of workshops designed to help you get organised, be more inclusive, develop and grow, get help from people and deal with money matters.
Explore the best ways to communicate with different audiences to help ensure people are engaged and informed, including guidance on creating a communications plan.
Learn more about the key elements of an effective marketing strategy, which can help community sports organisations to guide and improve promotion efforts.
Understanding the best ways to communicate with different audiences helps community sports organisations to ensure their people are engaged and informed.
Identifying new volunteering opportunities, skills audit advice and guidance on breaking volunteer roles into tasks to develop task-based volunteering.
Exploring Open Minds Active and their work to improve mental health and wellbeing through inclusive, accessible swimming lessons and open water swimming.
It is important to provide development and training opportunities for their volunteers. Check out our guidance on how community sports organisations can do this.
