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