Community Development Work

LCSN is building a sound reputation across London’s third sector for our specialist knowledge and our experience of supporting communities that are developing and managing sport based social inclusion programmes.

Community groups are offered the opportunity to take up individual support sessions with an LCSN Development Officer through face-to-face meetings. The support sessions aim to build the skills of individuals in each of the groups, develop action plans for community sport projects, support fundraising and deliver general organisational development.

The support available to each group will be determined through the course of the meetings, however we look to achieve outputs including:

• business plans with a sports development delivery plans,
  
• fundraising strategies,
  
• funding applications,
  
• monitoring and evaluation frameworks,
  
• Child protection policies, Equal Opportunities policies and Health and Safety polices.

For further information click Policies & Procedures Templates or contact Melanie Bindel

Events & Workshops

The overall aim of the learning workshops is to deliver responsive training in an informal, interactive and peer support environment. The workshops are bespoke and will be appropriate for the management committees and volunteers of community groups. It is recommended that each workshop (2-3hrs) has between 10-14 participants attended in order to generate good discussion, sharing, learning and peer support.

The specific aims of the workshop programme are to:

• improve the skills and capacity of community sports deliverers
• improve the delivery of community sport
• increase knowledge and understanding within community sports deliverers
• increase peer support, networking and sharing of good practice between community sports deliverers

For further information click Workshops

Consultancy

Our reputation has been enhanced by our close relationships with larger voluntary, public and strategic bodies. In particular the network has:

• Carried out consultancy for public agencies
• Organized networking events, and
• Developed policy for funders and strategic bodies.

Sprint

The Sprint Project is a bespoke training programme which aims to up skill the youth and community sport workforce who work with young people that are at risk of exclusion. This unique new Olympic inspired project provides continual professional development to the community sports and recreation workforce across the 33 London boroughs with a special focus on those working in the five Olympic host boroughs.

For further information click Sprint

Information & Publications

The Networker is a newsletter produced by London Community Sports Network on a quarterly basis for voluntary and community organisations in the sub-regions of London.

To view our publications click Networker & Publications

LCSN also advertises job vacancies free of charge to voluntary and community groups in the London region

To view current job vacancies click Job Listings or if you have any job vacancies to advertise, click Contact Us

LCSN has researched available funding opportunities for voluntary and community groups wishing to deliver a sport related project.

To view click Funding News