Grappenhall Youth and Community Association.
Five year plan 2009 - 2014.
To all members,
This is your club and below is the clubs five year plan. Please feel free to contact the committee members and discuss this further. If you have any ideas or can offer any assistance please do so, your contribution will be welcome.
Yours sincerely,
Stuart Woodcock
Chairman.
Aim
'To make the community centre a viable concern, providing facilities and functions which will serve the needs of members and the local community'
Objectives
- Establish a professional policy in relation to staff management and performance.
- Improve communication and information about club matters.
- Encourage more use of the club by all sections of the community.
- Increase the use of facilities.
- Increase membership.
- Reduce the current financial loss aiming to cover costs.
Underlying Principles.
- Professionalism
- Transparency
- Integrity
- Accountability
Objectives in more detail.
Establish a professional policy in relation to staff management and performance.
This will involve writing a policy in relation to staff roles and responsibilities including how staff issues are dealt with in future. It will include clarity on how and where good performance is recorded and warnings in relation to poor performance. It will include guidance as to how staff issues are dealt with between management and the individual.
Improve communication and information about club matters.
A review of communication methods will take place. This is to assist members and non members to be aware of what is going on in their community centre. Any new and existing methods will be examined to see how these can be developed further.
Encourage more use of the club by all sections of the community.
An overall review of all functions and those who use the centre will take place; this will show current use so increase can be measured. This will allow us to target sections of the community who are not using the community centre to formulate plans how these individuals can be targeted and encouraged to use the centre.
Increase the use of facilities.
A review of the use of facilities to identify gaps in use, for example certain times, days weeks or part of the year. Once again this will enable us to measure increase in use. This will allow targeting of other users, groups, and clubs etc, to encourage consistent use of the facilities..
Increase membership.
Initiatives will be examined and developed aimed at increasing membership.
Reduce the current financial loss aiming to cover costs.
Targeting events and increasing the use of facilities will go some way to increasing financial profit. However other initiatives to reduce overall running costs are essential. This will include such initiatives as reducing heating costs, exploring grant possibilities and private sector links to assist in income generation and reducing costs.