Sports Volunteering

The most common volunteering activity for many people is helping a local sporting club. This can take many forms including:

Coaching
Managing
Refereeing
Working bees
Committee membership
Recruitment
Judging
Linesperson
Score keeping
Social activities
Financial management
Professional services i.e. medical, engineering, legal
Canteen assistance
Transport
Fields set up and clean-up
Registration
Sponsor liaison

Many people become involved in volunteering for sports for the first time when their children are young. This is often a time of life when the parent or guardian has many other responsibilities outside of their child’s sporting interests. This means sporting clubs and associations always need more volunteers.

If you are interested in a particular sport, there are many websites that you can visit to discover which club or association would best fit your desired level of involvement. Local, regional and state associations are all looking for people with a passion in their sport to continue the traditions and benefits that sporting activities bring to communities.

All major sports have independent governing bodies that supply information and contacts to assist volunteers. Same of the major sports include the following:

If you are interested in volunteering for one of these major sporting bodies go to their website and do a search using key words such as ‘join’, ‘clubs’, ‘associations’, ‘competition’ or ‘play’.

The Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation has a number of practical on-line resources in the sport and recreation sector that may assist you in running your club. These materials have a strong focus on corporate governance, risk management and volunteer management.

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