Your first meeting

It’s a good idea to arrange an initial meeting to get your club up and running. Meetings are the most simple and effective method of reaching agreed decisions about the sports club.

If your meetings involve the necessary people and run smoothly, you’ll be able to achieve good results.

Here’s a checklist to make sure your first meeting runs well.

• Make sure that everyone involved understands the reason for the meeting.
• Make sure everyone knows about it well in advance – it’s sensible to remind people the day before.
• Check that the time and venue fit in with people’s prior commitments (work, children etc).
• Make sure the agenda has gone to everyone invited to the meeting beforehand.
• Make sure any tasks that have been undertaken for the meeting have been assigned and completed in time for the meeting.

A sports club first meeting is a great time to get people enthused. There are many other types of meetings that your club will need to have as it grows and develops - these can be both formal and informal.

The committees, roles and running meetings section of Club Kit has more information on types of meetings and meeting templates that your club can use.