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In the second of their regular insights columns, Gurpreet Dulay and Max Armstrong from BDO share their thoughts on fraud: key areas of risk and simple safeguards organisations should have in place to mitigate against these.

Berks & Bucks FA talk us through the development and implementation of their League Governance Code, an initiative to improve governance at the local, grassroots level. The Code was the joint winner of the SGA Sports Governance Project of the Year in 2024.

In the latest insight piece from BDO, Sherv Cheung, Gurpreet Dulay, Max Armstrong, Edward Sell and Arshdip Singh explore how Social Impact Bonds can be used to unlock finance to deliver sport and physical activity provision.

Zak Mohammed from Databloom Partners gives us an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI and AI Governance

Sam Little, from workplace relationship specialists, CMP, provides some helpful approaches to establishing an effective mechanism for voicing concerns about behaviours, conduct or practices within an organisation.

This series of essays aims to provide a deeper dive into topics of interest and relevance to the Sports Governance Academy community. Authored by experts in particular disciplines and by practitioners in sports governance and management, they will give the reader a closer look at current themes, best practice and initiatives in the sector.

By inviting authors to present their topics in essay form, we want to give them the scope and freedom to explore more deeply areas of governance affecting sports organisations, predominantly in the UK but drawing on comparative international examples where appropriate. The approach taken will vary from essay to essay. Some will provide a case study to help the community get to grips with developments in the sports governance landscape. Others will present the results of original ongoing research. Others still will offer intriguing perspectives on governance debates, approaching familiar topics from a different angle.

We hope that you find plenty in the series to get you thinking and to help you and your organisations in your approach to governance and in facing the challenges ahead of us.

Sports organisations face an increasingly complex range of challenges, adversities, and changes which manifest themselves at a pace which can leave those dealing with them reeling. How individuals and teams working within sports organisations can equip themselves to deal with these rapidly shifting environments is a question that can be addressed by the study of organisational resilience.

Organisational resilience seeks to understand and explain how and why organisations adapt and thrive in environments which are complex and uncertain.

In this essay, the first in the series, Dr Alan Watkins shares his thoughts on decision making drawn from his experience both as a physician and neuroscientist and as a leadership development consultant.

In this essay, Chris Pringle from The Football Association provides an in-depth account of the implementation of the Code of Governance for County Football Associations. This presents to the SGA community an example of how a major NGB is addressing the principle of ‘cascading’ good governance which became a requirement under the revised Code for Sports Governance.

This essay presents the findings of research which focused on three grassroots sports organisations and takes a fresh, in-depth look at the governance practices of voluntary sports clubs.

It looks at some of the ways in which grassroots sport is responding to the challenges it faces, the extent to which the improved governance practices are manifested further down the sector’s ecosystem, and what this looks like in practice for clubs with little resource and which rely so heavily on volunteers to function.