Sported’s Volunteer Consultants lend their professional expertise or lived experience to help make grassroots sports organisations more resilient, impactful and effective.
We deploy a team of over 200 consultants in all parts of the UK, offering their expertise free of charge to our network and supporting our staff on the ground.
Each of them brings unique skills from their careers or previous work. From knowledge of strategy and project development, human resources, fundraising, marketing or financial planning, they unlock the long-term stability and growth of local sports clubs and groups by working closely with their staff and volunteers.
Volunteer Consultants work closely with club leaders, trustees or staff on specific projects or mentoring pathways. Sometimes, they’ll even support Sported’s own work.
“We’d never run a sports project before, but with the consultant’s help I learnt to write funding bids that were sports specific; budgeting for revenue and expenditure for sporting activities was not something I’d attempted before. The support Sported gave us was invaluable. The financial support gave us a kick start but it was the mentoring that really prepared us for running a sport project successfully.”
