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England Athletics is the latest National Governing Body to be using TeamKinetic cloud-based Volunteer Management Software.England Athletics has placed volunteers at the heart of their most recent strategic plan with \u2018Strategic Priority One\u2019 \u00a0being:<\/p>\n
\u201cTo expand the capacity of the sport by supporting and developing its volunteers and other workforce\u201d.<\/p>\n
The recognition that volunteers are at the heart of England Athletics’ strategy has resulted in the demand for an effective volunteer management system.<\/p>\n
England Athletics have initially focused on using TeamKinetic to support the 4,500 licensed officials, just one segment of volunteers that support the 149,000 registered athletes at events, competition and clubs.<\/p>\n
Nicola English, Officials Development Officer, explains how TeamKinetic arrived on the scene:<\/p>\n
“Starting my role in April last year, one of the key priorities was to improve the experience of our current officials and official secretaries. As part of the improvement, we wanted to make it easier for Officials to find competitions in their local area and to reduce the amount of time it takes for officials Secretaries to appoint and manage Officials prior to an event or competition.”<\/p>\n
We searched several systems before selecting TeamKinetic for its simplicity and ease of use. Using TeamKinetic will make it simpler for Officials to find and join opportunities as well as reducing the time it takes Officials Secretaries to appoint Officials to competitions and events. We really like how responsive and easy to communicate it is with one of the team, especially if we have any technical queries”<\/p>\n
England Athletics is the first National Governing Body to use TeamKinetic to such an extent for the management of Officials at competition and this has posed some interesting challenges for the development team at TeamKinetic. \u00a0It has provided a fantastic opportunities to test the application in this new context and we look forward to the spring and summer of 2018 where we will get to see these in action for the first time.<\/p>\n
Chris Martin, Co-Founder at\u00a0TeamKinetic comments:<\/p>\n
“TeamKinetic began by helping sports organisations to recruit volunteers, but as we have progressed our software now caters for all volunteer-orientated organisation. We are delighted that TeamKinetic continues to attract leading National Governing Bodies and we look forward to working with England Athletics.”<\/p>\n