Sports Governance Academy (SGA): Board Development Fund
Overview
Organisations must operate in the sport and physical activity sector in the United Kingdom.
The fund provides the flexibility to meet the needs of organisations with different requirements for personnel development and to provide training support in specific areas of governance.
The fund is limited and applications will be assessed against specified criteria, which will include the specific need answered, the benefit to the organisation and the organisation’s access to paid-for training. Priority will be given to organisations that would otherwise be unable to obtain the requested training due to financial constraints.
Available courses
- Building an inclusive environment
- Creating your values and defining culture
- Board effectiveness
- Strategy and the decision-making process
- Boardroom dynamics
- Succession planning
- In-house delivery of Essential Sports Governance
- Conflicts of interest
- Preparing for a board evaluation
- Risk management
- Finance for non-finance managers
- Navigating AI
Within these areas, they will work with the organisations who apply successfully to understand their specific requirements and tailor the course content to their needs.
Decisions on requests for training are made on the basis of responses to the questions contained in the online application form. Applications are scored according to the following criteria which has been agreed with their partner Sports Councils:
- Benefit of training to the board and organisation
- Specific training needs addressed by the training
- Other board development activity
- Measuring impact
- Financial need/limited funding
In return for training being delivered to them, successful organisations are expected to:
- acknowledge the provision of training through the Board development fund through their website, social media channels or other communications
- agree to contribute to SGA output in consultation with the SGA Team. This may include but is not limited to blog posts, testimonials and/or case studies, etc.