Australia has 70,000 plus not for profit sporting clubs and an estimated 12.7M adults (15+ years) and 3.5M children involved in sporting clubs (Clearing House of Sport).
At this point in history, nearly a quarter of these clubs are in serious jeopardy or at threat of closure (The Age) after two years of disrupted operations, fixtures and activity.
Clubs play a critical role in our society, where people of all ages congregate, compete and celebrate.
If local sporting clubs fail, an important community and social structure that encourages and cultivates healthy relationships, decision making, life skills and life choices will be compromised. The result will be young people that are disengaged, disconnected and potentially at risk.
The prospect of increasing club failure demands change. Learn more about becoming a Club with Heart.
Sporting clubs are an ideal environment to teach people:
Unfortunately, many clubs have blind spots. It could be about respecting diversity, misuse of alcohol, hyper-masculinity, cliques that perpetuate negative behaviours, lack of care of volunteers and much more, including poor leadership. This can lead people to make poor decisions with significant and long-lasting consequences.
What if there was another way?
Never before have we needed positive sporting environments more than we do NOW.
Great sporting clubs:
Clubs hold enormous potential to support the positive development of young people. They equip our young people with an incredible array of skills and competencies including:
A place to build self-esteem and confidence, along with important sport and life skills.
Clubs with Heart, by SALT, exists to assist sporting clubs to evolve into clubs that help young people to gather many competencies that contribute towards competitive greatness – not only in their sport of choice, but for life.
Clubs with Heart hold their club members responsible and accountable to address:
Changing Lives, Empowering Clubs, Strengthening Communities.
"The SALT team have the knowledge, expertise and support to achieve their vision of transforming the Australian culture through sport. I am proud to be a member of the team and to be reaching into the lives of people and making a difference."
"I could not more highly recommend the work that SALT is doing. This is a wonderful organisation that is driven by a sincere and determined objective to equip sporting clubs to be healthier and better equipped to play a vital role in the protection of their communities."
Every Community,
Every Club,
Everyone.
Become a Club with Heart over the course of 8 Webinars, where key people in your club will learn a new blueprint for the future of your club.