Geoff Wilson

This book brings together all the essential knowledge needed to run, develop and grow a grassroots sports club, in one comprehensive volume. Offering a structured approach to club development and administration, and designed to support clubs, the book breaks down the complex task of running a grassroots sports club into manageable components. It enables sports clubs to select relevant modules according to their current capacity and ambition and introduces the essential day-to-day and strategic aspects of running a grassroots sports club. It covers key areas like strategic planning, financial planning, managing facilities, generating income, community engagement, volunteer recruitment, the importance of being a welcoming club and navigating governance requirements and provides a solid foundation for anybody involved in running or leading a grassroots sports club. Every chapter includes practical, step-by-step instructions, actionable strategies and templates that managers and volunteers can apply immediately, to help them organise, finance and grow their club, ensuring that even clubs with limited resources or experience can implement best practices efficiently, fostering growth, transparency, and long-term viability. Drawing on the author’s experiences managing and consulting with sports organisations across the globe, this book is essential reading for anybody involved in grassroots sports and is a useful supplementary text for any course on sport business or management.

This book brings together all the essential knowledge needed to run, develop and grow a grassroots sports club, in one comprehensive volume. Offering a structured approach to club development and administration, and designed to support clubs, the book breaks down the complex task of running a grassroots sports club into manageable components. It enables sports clubs to select relevant modules according to their current capacity and ambition and introduces the essential day-to-day and strategic aspects of running a grassroots sports club. It covers key areas like strategic planning, financial planning, managing facilities, generating income, community engagement, volunteer recruitment, the importance of being a welcoming club and navigating governance requirements and provides a solid foundation for anybody involved in running or leading a grassroots sports club. Every chapter includes practical, step-by-step instructions, actionable strategies and templates that managers and volunteers can apply immediately, to help them organise, finance and grow their club, ensuring that even clubs with limited resources or experience can implement best practices efficiently, fostering growth, transparency, and long-term viability. Drawing on the author’s experiences managing and consulting with sports organisations across the globe, this book is essential reading for anybody involved in grassroots sports and is a useful supplementary text for any course on sport business or management.

Become a part of the growing sports card trading community Sports Card Collecting & Investing For Dummies will teach you how to start or resume collecting, how to trade, sell, grade, and protect your cards. This is a comprehensive yet easy-to-read breakdown of the sports card hobby and its many nuances. You’ll learn the basics and get up to speed on the recent influx of new brands, companies, investors, influencers, and technologies that have completely reshaped the community. The popularity of sports cards as an alternative investment is at an all-time high, and this Dummies guide helps you budget and make smart trades. The anatomy of a sports card, spotting card damage, grading scales, buying safely, using trusted marketplaces, building your collection, pricing and selling your cards, avoiding scams—it’s all in here. Become a savvy card collector, the easy way. Learn the ins and outs of trading sports cards as a collector and an investorDetermine the value of your cards and discover where to find rare dealsStay safe while buying and selling from local dealers, with online marketplaces, and at in-person eventsBecome a part of the collector communityBeginners of all ages who want to start (or resume) collecting sports cards can find all the must-know info in the pages of Sports Card Collecting & Investing For Dummies.

`. . . those two mighty products of the land, the Canterbury lamb and the All Blacks, have made New Zealand what she is in spite of politicians' claims to the contrary', wrote Dick Brittenden in 1954. `For many in New Zealand, prowess at sport replaces the social graces; in the pubs, during the furious session between 5pm and closing time an hour later, the friend of a relative of a horse trainer is a veritable patriarch. No matador in Madrid, no tenor in Turin could be sure of such flattering attention.' As Brittenden suggested, sport has played a central part in the social and cultural history of Aotearoa New Zealand throughout its history. This book tells the story of sport in New Zealand for the first time, from the Maori world to today's professional athletes. Through rugby and netball, bodybuilding and surf lifesaving, the book introduces readers to the history of the codes, the organisations and the players. It takes us into the stands and on to the sidelines to examine the meaning of sport to its participants, its followers, and to the communities to which they belonged. Why did rugby become much more important than soccer in New Zealand? What role have Maori played in our sporting life? Do we really `punch above our weight' in international sport? Does sport still define our national identity? Viewing New Zealand sport as activity and as imagination, Sport and the New Zealanders is a major history of a central strand of New Zealand life.

This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of ‘resilience’ and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term survival. Using global examples, specific emphasis is placed on how learning processes, traditions, policies and politics affect the resilience of communities and what constraints and opportunities exist for communities to raise resilience levels.

This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of ‘resilience’ and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term survival. Using global examples, specific emphasis is placed on how learning processes, traditions, policies and politics affect the resilience of communities and what constraints and opportunities exist for communities to raise resilience levels.

In a time of great agricultural and rural change, the notion of 'multifunctionality' has remained under-theorized and poorly linked to wider debates in the social sciences. This book analyses the extent to which the proposed transition towards post-productivist agriculture holds up to scientific scrutiny, and proposes a modified productivist/non-productivist model that better encapsulates the complexity of agricultural and rural change. By combining existing notions and concepts, this book (re)conceptualizes agricultural change, creating a new transition theory, and a new way of looking at the future of agriculture.