Sports Field Demand
Sports Club Questionnaire
Name of Club: ______
Q1. How many members does your club have? (If the age categories don’t exactly match your records use the nearest category and note which ages are included in your figures)
Juniors – boys and girls aged about 5 to 10 ______
Youth Boys (11 to 17) ______
Senior Men ______
Girls (11 to 17) ______
Women ______
Non Playing Members ______
TOTAL MEMBERSHIP ______
Q2. Over the next five years what changes, if any, do you expect in playing member numbers?
Please answer for each grade of members – see the example provided in italics
Example / þ1 / o2 / o3 / By 5%
Your Club
Junior (boys and girls aged about 5 to 10) / o1 / o2 / o3
Youth boys (11 to 17) / o1 / o2 / o3
Senior Men / o1 / o2 / o3
Girls (11 to 17) / o1 / o2 / o3
Women / o1 / o2 / o3
Q3. Where do the majority of your members live? The map below breaks XXX City / District into xx areas. We need to know what percentage of your members come from each area. Note we are aware that some senior players travel across the city / district to play for a particular club. Please consider just those areas where your draw most of your members from.
In the example shown the example club draws 80% of its members from Area 1 and 20% from Area 2
Area / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18Example / 80% / 20%
Your Club
Insert map of area and adjust the number of columns above to match the number of analysis areas
Q4. Training Days
Please complete the table below to show how many teams in each grade are training on any given weekday.
Team numbers have been provided by <insert RSO name> – please amend if incorrect.
Note the number of teams in each grade / category which train on the different days. If a team trains more than once a week please ‘double count’ it, ie include it on each day it trains.
If some teams do not train at all, or train in indoor venues or on hard surfaces please note that under the applicable column.
We have provided an example in italics
Grade / No of teams / Number of teams training on each dayIf a team trains more than once a week include it on both days
Mon / Tues / Wed / Thurs / Fri / train indoors or on hard surfaces – not fields / Do not train at all
Example / 7 / 1 / 2 / 0 / 2 / 0 / 1 / 1
Your Club
Insert grades as appropriate for code Insert team numbers as provided by RSO
Q5. Field Space and Time Requirements
Please complete the table below to show how much field space teams in each ‘grade’ require for training, and how long they require it for.
Whilst some teams might like to always have a full field for training please provide information on what is actually needed for effective training.
The example (in italics) shows that teams in that particular grade usually need half a full sized field for 31 to 45 minutes for training.
Please work on full sized field equivalents, ie teams using all a mini field would be shown as using half a full sized equivalent field.
Grade / Amount of field space needed (full sized field equivalent)Please tick one box only marking the average needed for that grade / Length of time teams train for, on average, each training session
¼ full sized field or less / ½ Full sized field / ¾ full sized field / All full sized field / 30 minutes or less / 45 minutes / 60 minutes / 1½ hours / 2 hours / Over 2 hours
Example / o1 / þ2 / o3 / o4 / o1 / þ2 / o3 / o4 / o5 / o6
Your Club
o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o5 / o6
/ o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o5 / o6
o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o5 / o6
/ o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o5 / o6
/ o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o5 / o6
/ o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o5 / o6
/ o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o1 / o2 / o3 / o4 / o5 / o6
Insert grades as appropriate for code
Q6. Please list all the fields that your club regularly uses for training. Include Council fields and fields owned by other providers such as schools
2 / 5 / 8
3 / 6 / 9
Q7 If you use non Council owned fields please tell us what use arrangements you have for those fields. Use the example in italics as a guide to the information to provide
Name of field
/Hired / leased / Owned
/ If hired or leased – from whom? / If hired or leased – what type of agreement– eg informal; or written agreement on monthly, by term, annual, 3 year etc; or formal lease; or ?? – tell us what
Millbrook School / Hired / Millbrook School / Formal 3 year lease
Q8 Does your club enter teams in any winter code competition / league other than that run by <RSO>?
No --- ¨1 Yes --- ¨1 è Please name the code and competition and provide contact details for the organiser.
Code / Competition / Organiser Name / Address / PhoneQ9 Does your club run any ‘in house’ leagues eg for grades 5 to 9?
‘In house’ mean your club teams just play each other and do not take part in a league with other clubs’ teams
No --- ¨1 Yes --- ¨1 è Please provide contact details for the organiser. ______
Q10. Which of these issues is currently a concern for your club? Tick or write in all that apply
Lack of funding ------¨01
Lack of volunteers to stand for committee positions ------¨02
Lack of coaches ------¨03
Lack of team managers ------¨04
Membership recruitment / retention ------¨05
Access difficulties for members (cost, transport etc) ------¨06
Lack of fields to support the number of teams ------¨07
High maintenance liabilities for clubrooms ------¨08
Other please tell us what ______
Q11. Are you ‘stacking’ more players into each team that you would have done several years ago?
No --- ¨1 Yes --- ¨2 è Which grades is this happening in? ______
What is the main reason for this? ______
Q12. Have you turned prospective players away this season?
No --- ¨1 Yes --- ¨2 è What age groups have you turned away? ______
What was the main reason for this? ______
Q13. If you have any further comments or views concerning playing field provision in your area, please write them here
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Thank you for your help