September 2009
*** Welcome to the CMSPORT Club BroadcastSeptember 2009***
- Last chance to register - Learn to use today's technology to your club's advantage
- Special Olympics Howick Pakuranga becomes our first club in the spotlight
- What's this KiwiSport the Government is talking about?
- Register now to be part of a major international event
- Online coaching magazine Winter issue available now
- Engage your youth and make your website more interesting
- In Brief
- Upcoming Events
*** LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER *** LEARN TO USE TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY TO YOUR CLUB’S ADVANTAGE
The fourth workshop in our ClubWorks series brings a Communications and IT expert FREE to your volunteers. Jonathan Alsop will focus on Websites (including website fundamentals, maintaining your website, free websites); eNewsletters (including eNewsletter fundamentals, anti-spam legislation, setting up an eNewsletter). He will also briefly look at how clubs can utilise other free tools including Facebook, Twitter, Wikisand Blogs.
This is a fantastic opportunity that your club should not miss. Your club is welcome to send as many delegates as you like to these FREE workshops. For more information and to register for the September workshop, see our website here.
Some comments from the same workshop that was held in Papatoetoe in August were…
- “great ideas to take back to the club”
- “these are extremely valuable workshops and really good for volunteers and club committees to learn and grow”
- “exactly the information we need to grow our association”
- “a good practical night – some good insights”
SPECIAL OLYMPICS HOWICK PAKURANGA BECOMES OUR FIRST CLUB IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Club Spotlight is an opportunity for sports clubs in the Counties Manukau region to promote themselves via the CMS website, with a month in the spotlight to help raise their public profile. In our first month, we are pleased to be highlighting Special Olympics Howick Pakuranga, a club which provides multiple sporting opportunities for young people and adults with an intellectual disability.
Special Olympics Howick Pakuranga in the Spotlight can be viewed on our website at www.cmsport.co.nz/clubspotlight
Clubs are invited to complete a brief Club Profile form outlining some basic information on their club and highlighting some of their successes and good stories. From those forms received, a club will be randomly selected to feature for a month in this section, and all previously featured clubs will be accessible too.Club Spotlight is sponsored by Needarub and each month, the lucky club will receive over $100 worth of goodies from our local sponsor. To see what products they can offer your sports clubs, see their website here http://www.needarub.co.nz/
If you would like to be featured in our Club Spotlight, then please see www.cmsport.co.nz/clubspotlightto download the application form.
WHAT’S THIS KIWISPORT THE GOVERNMENT IS TALKING ABOUT?
On 11 August the Prime Minister announced the introduction of Kiwisport, a new sport in schools initiative that aims to: -
- increase the numbers of school-age children participating in organised sport - during school, after school and by strengthening links with sports clubs;
- increase the availability and accessibility of sport opportunities for all school-aged children; and
- support children in developing skills that will enable them to participate effectively in sport at both primary and secondary level.
Kiwisport has two components:
- a direct fund that will be made available to all schools via the Ministry of Education’s operational funding;
- and a regional partnership fund that will be allocated to community projects via regional sports trusts (ie. Counties Manukau Sport).
Whilst the details of this initiative are still being finalised, the impact for clubs is that there will be a clear focus on connecting schools and young people into their communities, through sports clubs. More information will be available on the CMSPORT website (/) as it is available.
REGISTER NOW TO BE PART OF A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EVENT
Volunteers play a vital role in ensuring that any world class event runs smoothly and provides the best possible experience for competitors and spectators. The World Rowing Championship held in Karapiro 2010 will be no different. There will be a number of areas where Rowing NZ will require a significant volunteer presence and they have already begun to compile a database of volunteer organisations and individuals who are keen to get involved and help in some way.
If you, or your club members, would like to be involved, then they would like to hear from you, even at this early stage. They will also be developing a Volunteer Newsletter as the event draws near, so they can keep all up to date with the things they need to know about the event.
See the World Rowing Champs website here for more details - http://www.wrch2010.com/volunteers.php
ONLINE COACHING MAGAZINE WINTER ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW!
The latest issue of SPARC's coaching magazine "Coach Online" is now available at http://www.sparc.org.nz/sport/coaching/new-zealand-coach
Coach Online gives coaches access to information and interviews on coaching in a user friendly e-magazine format.
Articles include: -
- information on SPARC and the NZAS’s Coach Accelerator programme;
- an interview with SPARC’s General Manager Community Sport and Recreation – John Reid, about his views on grassroots sport, its influence on young people and the need for quality coaches at this level; and
- reflections on SPARC’s Winning on the World Stage event by world renowned Sports Psychologist, Ken Ravizza
ENGAGE YOUR YOUTH AND MAKE YOUR WEBSITE MORE INTERESTING
Do you want to make your website more interesting so that your members will return time and time again to it? Or highlight your club as youthful so that new members considering your sport and/or club will want to join? You could do this by including a youth blog on your website. I’m sure that within your youth membership there is one or two members who would be happy to write a couple of paragraphs once or twice a week. You may have to get an adult to check the content before the blog is published but if you use a new volunteer youth to write the blog and a new volunteer adult to check it (rather than using the same volunteers who are currently doing all the work!), then it won’t take up too much time.
You can easily add blogs to your website using the following tools
… and don’t worry if you don’t understand how – I’m sure the young people in your club will!
- Fundraising idea # 72: Utilise students who want to get some experience, to save you costs (eg. student physiotherapists, student photographers, student website developers, student journalists etc)
- Want to keep your athletes concentrating – here’s a great article on concentration for athletes
- Future of Bledisloe Park in Pukekohe is mapped out by Franklin District Council – see details here
UPCOMING EVENTS (for all events, see our online Events Calendar at www.cmsport.co.nz/calendar)
- Mon 14 Sep, 6.30-8.30pm: Generic Coaching Course Coach Smart(Avondale)
- Wed 16 Sep, 6.30-8.30pm: CMS ClubWorks Seminar – Promotion and Communication in Today’s World(Papakura)
- Fri 18 Sep, 7pm: Above and Beyond: Volunteer Recognition Awards(Pukekohe)
- Fri 25 Sep, 7pm: Above and Beyond: Volunteer Recognition Awards(Papakura)
- Mon 5 Oct, 6.30-8.30pm: Generic Coaching Course Sport Science(Waitakere)
- Mon 12 Oct, 6.30-8.30pm: CMS ClubWorks Seminar – Planning for your Future (Manukau)
- Mon 19 Oct, 6.30-8.30pm: Generic Coaching Course Planning & Programme Management(Papakura)
- Mon 9 Nov, 6.30-8.30pm: Generic Coaching Course Planning & Programme Management(Albany)
- Mon 16 Nov, 6.30-8.30pm: CMS ClubWorks Seminar – Planning for your Future (Pukekohe)
- Mon 23 Nov, 6.30-8.30pm: Generic Coaching Course Research & Technology(Greenlane)
Did you know? Volleyball was invented in 1895 in Massachusetts (USA) just 16kms from the city where basketball was invented four years earlier – it was originally called mintonette and took some of its characteristics from tennis and handball.
