Executive summary i
1 Introduction 1
1.1 The research 1
1.2 Methods 1
2 Sport volunteering – what we know 3
2.1 The scale of sport volunteering 3
2.2 The distribution of sport volunteering 4
2.3 Roles in sport volunteering 4
2.4 Volunteer characteristics 4
2.5 Volunteer motivations 5
2.6 Issues and barriers in sport volunteering 6
2.7 Volunteer management 9
2.8 The impacts of sport volunteering 12
3 The research process 17
3.1 The initial scoping of impacts 17
3.2 The production and distribution of questionnaires 18
3.3 The response 19
4 The results of the pilot 21
4.1 In the back of the net! the obvious impacts 21
4.2 At a trot or a gallop… less well-known impacts 27
4.3 To the sin-bin? questionable impacts 31
5 Conclusion 39
5.1 Headline impacts 39
5.2 Issues and implications 40
5.3 Assessment of the piloting 48
5.4 The value of assessing impacts 49
5.5 Recommendations 51
References 53
Appendix The case studies 57