Sporting Advantage

Check out our first newsletter for 2015 (yes, I know it's May!) with some great information about corporate team building events, sporting grants, club development and the awesome active superhero, Captain Active!

Corporate Health, Grants, Sport and Captain Active Wayne Bennett says that at some stage in life, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Who will be sitting at your business’ banquet table? Tired, negative and disgruntled employees or a motivated, energetic and productive team who have had an awesome time doing the Queensland Country Heal…

Woohooo, there's a new corporate team building event happening on Magnetic Island in October! It's an 'Amazing Race' style event, that everyone can be involved in and have a good laugh! Businesses will have a great weekend of socialising and fun activities and also have the chance to win $2000 of radio advertising and $2000 of marketing expertise! We're involved in the planning and implementation of the event, so you know it's going to be heaps of fun! Check out all the details at http://iatgames.com/

Looking like he means business - Captain Active in his new 'supercise suit'!!

The $100,000 Get Playing and $10,000 Get Going grants for sporting clubs close at the end of this month. Have you got your application sorted? If you need a hand, just give me a call or check out the free grant writing advice in the resource library on the Sporting Advantage website!

After Hughenden tonight, it's on to Richmond for a Grant Writing workshop. There are quite a few grants out at the moment for Queensland sporting clubs. Has your club got a volunteer who focusses solely on finding and writing grants? If not, then you need one! Grant writing is something people can do in their own time and don't have to commit to being at a certain place at a certain time each week (like being a coach, president or canteen coordinator), so it's the ideal role for shift workers our super busy people. Identify someone in your club that could write a good grant, provide some information that will help them understand grant writing (like the awesome stuff in the resource library of our website) and ask them to submit 2 or 3 each year for the club!

I'm just about to go to Hughenden to present an Athlete Recovery workshop. One thing we'll be discussing is having an Ice/Cold Water Bath after an intense training session or game. Have you ever had one? Yep, not pleasant! They seem to be pretty common practice in sport these days, however, there is still no conclusive evidence to show their benefit. The theory behind them makes sense and plenty of people swear by them, but the best studies can consistently conclude is that they aren't harmful to recovery....

Check out our latest newsletter, with heaps of information about grants that are currently available to sporting clubs in Queensland. Plus, see what Captain Active's been up to lately!

Grants to Apply for and Captain Active Fun Does your club need help to learn how to attract volunteers, get grants, source sponsorship, develop facilities, increase members and participants, up-skill coaches, run events, improve governance, enhance promotion or move into the 21st century? Sporting Advantage can do all this for you and has be…

Before the Club Committees workshop in Cooktown last night I was able to squeeze in a run up to this amazing lookout! Captain Active would have been proud!

Check out TheGo Townsvillej, an awesome sport and recreation website and page for all things active in and around Townsville! Great article about Captain Active!

Captain Active to the rescue! - TheGo - Townsville's Active Community Did you know Townsville has its very own superhero in our midsts? Clad in orange, blue and white, Captain Active has been sighted everywhere from local schools and parks to sporting events; single-handedly waging the war on his arch nemesis — unhealthy and unhappy families. “It’s about creating a he…

We're starting to receive more enquiries from businesses wanting to do team building activities with their staff. If you start me on the benefits of investing money into these types of activities, I'll still be writing tomorrow afternoon! Here's a great example of a morning we ran for Fastway Couriers last weekend!