Guides and insights on facility management, reducing admin burden, and building sustainable clubs.
Football Australia's Club Changer program provides grassroots clubs with structured guidance, resources, and recognition to help them build sustainable volunteer programs and stronger club culture.
Read more →Every soccer club has experienced it. That dedicated volunteer — the one who seemed to run everything effortlessly — suddenly announces they're stepping back. The truth is, they weren't doing it effortlessly. They were drowning.
Read more →When a key volunteer leaves your club, the immediate impact is obvious. But the true cost extends far beyond filling an empty role — it ripples through your club in ways that can take years to recover from.
Read more →Volunteer burnout rarely announces itself with a dramatic resignation. More often, it's a gradual withdrawal that goes unnoticed until it's too late. Learn to spot the early warning signs before losing valuable committee members.
Read more →When Sarah took over as facilities coordinator, she inherited a system held together by spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, and wishful thinking. Within three months, she'd cut her weekly admin time from 20 hours to under 2.
Read more →There's a particular kind of dread that comes with opening a club scheduling spreadsheet. The colour-coded cells, the hidden formulas, the creeping suspicion that the whole thing is one accidental deletion away from disaster.
Read more →"We just need more volunteers." But adding more volunteers to a broken system just creates more people to burn out. Before you can distribute the load, you need to reduce it.
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