The 2019 Island Games
The Island Games is a biennial international multi-sports event organised by the International Island Games Association. It provides an opportunity…
Browsing: General Sport
Confidence and Momentum – Sport’s Great Intangibles
It’s difficult to put a percentage on it, but so much of sport – elite or grassroots – is played…
The Transformation of Women’s Sport
If revolution is too strong a word, then transformation might be the best way to describe what is happening in…
Golf Dress Code – Time to Modernise
There are too many barriers to playing sport, to getting active. Most governing bodies recognise this, and bit by bit…
Mental Health Awareness Week
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, which seems as good a time as any to remind ourselves of the proven difference…
Coaching Week 2019 – Get Involved with the New Breed
The ability to make a difference to people’s lives through sport, and the knowledge that you are part of creating…
Club in Focus: Solent Thrashers
American football in the UK is on the rise. After the much-vaunted 80s boom, the sport’s popularity in this country…
Grassroots Drive to Support Young Referees
Abuse of referees has long been a major stain on grassroots football – and indeed other sports – but from…
Opening Up School Sporting Facilities in the Summer
We’ve always believed in a kind of collectivism in grassroots sport – clubbing together, sharing facilities and the like -…
Sued for Being Subbed
At any junior grassroots sports club, the relationship between player, parent and coach – or the coach-parent-child triumvirate – is…