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Our sports governance training courses will build the knowledge, skills and confidence to understand your governance responsibilities.

Courses are provided to help support boards, employees and volunteers working in the sport and physical activity sector in the UK.

Directors and trustees in sport take on significant legal, ethical and strategic responsibilities. Understanding Directors’ and Trustees’ Duties in Sport is designed to help current and aspiring board members clearly understand what those duties are, why they exist, and how they apply in practice within the unique context of sport.

These workshops will help sports bodies explore the benefits of board performance and governance reviews, and understand the various ways they can be carried out. The sessions will invite participants to reflect on their organisation’s experiences of board reviews and also offer opportunities for them to share their observations and ideas with peers.

Led by expert trainers, this session brings together experienced chairs and facilitates topical and in-depth discussion, encourages experience-sharing and provides a networking opportunity.

Taking minutes can be hard. Vague agendas. Ambiguous agreements. An unskilled chair. All these can make the taking of an accurate record a daunting task.

This practical and interactive one-day online course provides a toolkit of skills which will boost your confidence in the writing and presenting of accurate minutes.

This introductory course is perfect for governance leads and board members alike. Essential Sports Governance provides a detailed overview of the principles and practice of sports governance and how to get to compliance and beyond.

This intermediate course focuses on the key role of the sports governance lead in delivering and supporting effective governance.

This one-day course is for those with 3+ years of experience of taking minutes and/or for minute takers whose minutes will be published who want to improve the quality and value of their minutes and to ensure they can be understood through a retrospective lens.  You will learn tools and techniques to take high-quality, technical minutes in pressurised environments in which sensitivity, accuracy, speed, and ethics all add to the complexity, the role technology could play in supporting your approach and how to work together with key stakeholders to support the minute taking process.

Watch the recording from our Board Development Fund Information Session with Emma Argall & Terri Le Couteur to find out more about 2026's Board Development Fund.