The Board Skills for Sport course is the only course designed specifically to help train board members in sport and recreation organisations. Find out more by visiting: http://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/programmes-initiatives/boardroom/board-skills-sport

1. Board Skills for Sport
Session 1

2. The structure of the sport
and recreation sector

3. Aims
• The sporting and funding landscape
• Public accountability
• International Federations

4. The Sporting Landscape: Who’s Who
National
Governing
Bodies
sports
coach UK
Sport England/
NI/Scotland/
Wales
Clubs
Commonwealth
Games
Associations
UK Sport Institutes of Sport
International
Federations
British
Olympic
Association
British
Paralympic
Association
Sport &
Recreation
Alliance
Youth Sport Trust
Sports
Leaders UK
Other
Organisations
Schools, Colleges,
Universities
County Sports
Partnerships
IOC/IPC

5. UK Sport
• Established by Royal Charter in 1997, UK Sport
is responsible for investing around £100
million of public funds each year – from both
the National Lottery and the Exchequer – in
high performance sport.
– Performance
– Major Events
– International
• www.uksport.gov.uk

6. Sport England
• Focused on helping people and communities
across the country create a sporting habit for
life
– Places People Play
– Sports clubs, voluntary or community
organisations, local authorities, schools, colleges
and universities
• www.sportengland.org

7. Other Home Nations
• Sport Northern Ireland
– To promote a culture of lifelong enjoyment and success in sport
which contributes to a healthy, fair and prosperous society
– www.sportni.net
• Sport Scotland
– We see a Scotland where sport is a way of life. In everything we
do we act in the best interests of Scottish sport - putting sport
first
– www.sportscotland.org.uk
• Sport Wales
– From grassroots sport to the Millennium Stadium, we want to
develop a nation of champions
– www.sportwales.org.uk

8. The relationship
• Evolution
• Accountable officer
• Shape the future

9. Domestic landscape
• Clubs
• Schools, Colleges, Universities
• Local authorities
• Government (departments/agencies)
• Commercial partners

10. International landscape
• International Federations:
– Worldwide development and increased
participation
– Uniformity of rules
– World Championships and events

11. International Hockey Federation
The FIH is the international governing body for the sport of hockey. Its mission
is to:
• Encourage, promote, develop and control hockey at all levels throughout
the world
• Support and maintain the ideals and objects of the Olympic movement
and in particular the fight against doping
• Exercise jurisdiction over and to determine disputes or disagreements
between Members, between Continental Federations, between Members
and Continental Federations, between Athletes and FIH and between
Athletes and a Continental Federation
• Establish and maintain an efficient administration
• Preserve the independence of the FIH in all matters directly or indirectly
concerning Hockey without the intervention of any outside authority; and
• Conduct itself and take such administrative, financial or other actions as
are necessary and in conformity with and in furtherance of its objects.

12. International influence
• Historical background
• UK Sport: International Leadership Programme
• The future
– Committee membership
– Key roles
– Events