DORSET & WILTS. RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION Ltd
CLUB CONFERENCE 2008
Staying Ahead of the Game
At Dauntsey’s School, West Lavington ,Sunday, 21st September
Notes on the Sessions and Useful Links:
Pathfinder Groups for Play On
Simon Culley, Rugby Development Officer for Wiltshire, explained how to support the key figures who will help you keep your young players returning to the club and getting their friends involved.
Click Here for How to register as a Pathfinder on Rugby First
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Vrugby : A Volunteer Recruitment Workshop
How to recruit and retain the volunteers your club needs to thrive and develop.
Simon Culley co-presented with RFU’s Volunteer Executive for the South West, Laura Fear.
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Critical Injuries
Dave Phillips is the RFU’s new Full Time Sports Injury Administrator. He demonstrated the need for all clubs to have contingency plans to cater for seriously injured players and outlined the support available from RFU.
Click Here for Virtual Adviser and Critical Injuries
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Writing Risk Assessments
Geoff Hodder , Chief Health&Safety Officer for Christchurch Borough Council, guided participants through the key considerations in making their club and members less vulnerable to accidents and litigation.
Click for Risk Assessment Procedures ; for Aide Memoire ; for Beach Tag Rugby example .
See also http://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/principlespoints.htm
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The Planner’s View
How can you ease your planning submissions through the approval process ?
Giles Moir, Development Control Manager at Christchurch Borough Council , gave some tips in an informal workshop.
Click Here for Material Considerations and The Planner's View
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Welfare Officers..What we do now and what lies ahead
A workshop with lots of interaction - and even a quizz- demonstrated the range of concerns facing a Welfare Officer from day to day and looked forward to important developments over the coming year.
Nic Scott , RFU Equity,Welfare & Medical Officer and Joy Pentney, Welfare Officer, Blandford RFC co-presented .
Click Here for Millionaire Child Welfare Click Here for CB Safeguarding Session
Click Here for Vetting and Barring Scheme Click Here for Role Descriptor for CB Welfare Officer
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Whole Club Development Workshops
Hamish Morton, Rugby Development Officer for Dorset and Weymouth’s Hon. Secretary, Chris Davis,
drew on successful local experience to suggest ways of making these workshops productive for your club.
Click Here for Introduction ; Here for Workshops; Here for Weymouth Workshop
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The Benefits of Incorporation
In an increasingly litigious age clubs need to consider whether their officers and members are adequately protected.
Nick Dark ,Hon Gen Sec of Dorset &Wilts RFU Ltd, referred to the CB’s recent experience and discussed other factors to consider with Dave Stubley, RFU Funding & Facilities Executive, South West.
The workshop also looked at CASCs and specific issues raised by Clubs in their Health Check.
Click Here for Incorporation
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Strengthening Leadership
RFU’s CB Volunteer Manager, Carole Thelwall Jones, gave an update on the RFU’s Leadership Academy whilst Chris Davis and Glyn Arnold from Weymouth reported on their own experience of undergoing the programme last year.
Click Here for Leadership Academy
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Rugby First Trouble-Shooting
This forum offered practical solutions to some of the problems that have arisen in Membership and Player Registration and to showed how to weed out duplicate entries. Some guidance on web page creation was offered.
Chris Ashmore, Rugby First’s Technical Support Officer, was supported on the panel by John Lloyd, Registrar at Weymouth RFC, and Dorset&Wilts Administrator, Chris Joslin.
Click Here for Notes on Removing Duplicate Membership Entries ; Here for Rugby First Roles
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Maintaining Old Grounds and Developing New Ones….A guided tour
Clive Bee, Head Groundsman at Dauntsey’s, answered questions on the problems of preparing pitches for all seasons and all sports as well as pointing out some impressive features of the new sports grounds being developed at the school..
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Using the National Facilities Strategy
Dave Stubley outlined the priority areas in the strategy, the kind of support the RFU can offer to clubs planning improvements and how they can access it. Follow the links
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Get Your Coaches “Referee-Qualified”
Dorset&Wilts Society of RFU Referees' Training Officer, David Masters, showed how clubs and their teams will benefit if their coaches go through the training required for referees.
and What the new ELVs mean for our Game?
Chairman of Dorset&Wilts Society of Referees , Stephen Dowse, illustrated this discussion on the recent rule changes with some action packed video footage.
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