CHAR 4 SPORTS!
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CHAR 4 SPORTS
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ABOUT ME:

• Sports Officer 2019-20
• Ladies Hockey President 2018-19
• Ladies Hockey 2XI Captain 2017-18
• English Schools Cross Country competitor (nationals)
• Final Year History Student

RESHAPING SPORT:

• Increase the funding so we can support the campaign – get it solidified as an SU priority through sabb budget.  
• Expanding the portfolio: ‘sporting community leading the way on tackling issues on our campus.’
• Taking advantage of the solidarity Team Warwick showsto lobby the university for social change.
• Working with the PTOs to increase access to sports for those with protected characteristics.
  • Listening to communities on their specific issues within sport and working together to tackle these.
    • E.g. a buddy system where people can register their interest in a sport and ask for a member of their community to attend with them, or if there is someone already in the club to be an ally. 
  • Continue lobbying NGBs around trans policies and continue being a voice holding BUCS to account.  
  • Expand the trans-only sport sessions which started this year. 
  • Women’s gym hour – building on women’s only swimming. 
  • Women and non-binary self defenceclasses. 
  • Raising awareness about language accessibility for international students when joining sports clubs.
    • E.g. tactics sessions / verbal training sessions to learn sport terminology.

HARDSHIP FUND:

• Hardship fund for individual sports memberships, fund would contain a minimum £3000 per year. 
  • Building on the club hardship fund that I introduced this year.
  • Finance should not be an obstacle to participation. 

BUCS FUNDING:

• Lobby university for increased BUCS grant. 
  • Currently overspend every year.
  • 2019/20 have had to concede the most walkovers in our history due to transport funding. 
  • Clubs can’t grow teams, new BUCS sports can’t enter leagues. 
  • Embarrassing that our facilities are world class but the rest of sport can’t keep up. 
  • University supports the #TeamWarwick campaign, now they need to invest in it. 

MEMBERSHIPS:

• Membership restructure with input from Warwick clubs.
  • Gym membership needs an option of termly payments rather than £299 upfront.
• Alongside DDO and SU President lobby areas of the university higher up than Warwick Sport to try and enact change.
  • Building on relationships from this year.

FOR CLUB EXECS:

• Restructure Sports Forum – current format is not productive, especially for off-campus clubs. 
  • Make T2 Forum ‘drop in’ with facilities and operational staff from Warwick Sport.
  • Feedback portal for holding Warwick Sport to account for operational issues. 
• Go out to tender for a kit provider – contract with Akuma is up. 
• Sustainable sports fair using QR codes instead of flyers - building on Varsity and Akuma sustainability. 
  • Sustainability as element of Sportmark.
• Sportmark - not just one application form at the end of the year, execs can upload achievements throughout the year.
  • E.g. Worcester Uni and Wufoo forms. 
• Pre-seaso npage for freshers on the Warwick Sport website. Currently hard to find info on individual clubs pre-seasons because they are so club-website specific. 
  • Will help with recruitment. 

MARKETING:

• All clubs included. 
  • Non-BUCS clubs – create a form where they can send in their results so we can shout about them as much as BUCS scores. 
  • Tried this year to promote them on Instagram but we need an easy system where we can get access to their results, like BUCS provides.

ADDRESSING CLUB CULTURES:

• Address stereotypes surrounding uni culture e.g. alcoholism, peer pressure, sexual violence.
  • Warwick Values Moodle – 4000 first years completed it in 2019/20. Work with the team at the unito get sports specific scenarios included. E.g. locker room banter, sport socials.
• BUCS Conference in July – Warwick to lead a sexual violence in sport workshop at National Conference.
• Raising awareness for Report and Support.
  • Instances of sexual violence remain anecdotal. 
  • Anonymous reporting contributes to trends and data so we can highlight where specific clubs need training, workshops or action taken.
• Expand the remit of Report and Support to address hate crime, harassment and discrimination. 
• Linking Report and Support to the new BUCS reporting tool so our systems are aligned. 

TEAM WARWICK COMMUNITY: 

• A way to measure how much Team Warwick clubs raise collectively for charity throughout the year.
• Contactless payments in the Copper Rooms.
• ‘Talk Sport’ Series – workshops on careers in sport, how to balance sport and degree. 
• Wheelchair basketball - as a mechanism for injury rehab, staying active but off feet.
  • Feasible because of the 4 new wheelchairs purchased this year. 
• Physio – Got videos on Warwick Sport website. Get injury-specific group drop in sessions.
  • E.g. 4-5pm is a session for people with knee injuries.

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