Snowsport England

Posted December 2011

Snowsport England appointed rms sports consultants to provide advisory funding support to a targeted project. Following attendance at a funding workshop delivered by rms sports consultants in Staffordshire, Snowsport England decided that rms sports consultants could provide some added value in terms of advisory funding support and advice.

Burntwood Rugby Union Football Club

Posted November 2011

Strike three for rms sports consultants as they continue to secure further funding for Burntwood Rugby Club. The latest success includes £35,500 which has just been secured to support new floodlights at the club. This concludes a range of facility improvements including a changing room extension, pitch improvements and grounds maintenance equipment and new floodlights with approximately £235,000 grant aid support secured in total.

Trentham Rugby Union Football Club

Posted October 2011

It has only taken rms sports consultants just 8 months to help Trentham Rugby Club secure approximately £60,000 towards establishing a new rugby pitch, which will allow the club to expand their overall club membership.

'Without the level of service provided from rms sports consultants the project would have been dead in the water and we would not have raised anywhere near the monies required'.
Philip Millington, Chairperson

Burntwood Rugby Union Football Club

Posted September 2011

rms has continued to support Burntwood Rugby Club and Sports Association to develop their facilities by helping them to secure £60,000 from Sport England to help them improve and maintain their sports pitches.

'Thank you so much for your efforts – when I thought this was a dead duck, you encouraged me to continue!!! Well Done'.
Martyn Smith, Chairperson

University of Derby

Posted May 2011

rms sports consultants helped the University of Derby to secure £176,000 from the Sport England Active Universities funding programme to deliver a project based on increasing the sports participation rates of students and staff.

'Your support, advice and guidance when developing the bid proved invaluable'.
Oliver Shearer, Sports Development Manager

County Durham Sport

Posted April 2011

County Durham Sport won a free rms sports consultants sports funding workshop in January 2011. It was very well received by clubs and organisations in the area and as such a further workshop was booked by County Durham Sport, to provide continued support to sports clubs preparing grant applications.

'Rachel was very knowledgeable and provided up to date information, giving the attendees the confidence to search for funding and complete application forms'.
Catherine Watson, Development Officer

Sport Nottinghamshire

Posted February 2011

Sport Nottinghamshire appointed rms to deliver sports funding workshops in all local authority areas across the county. In 12 months, rms has delivered 8 workshops, to approximately 80 sports clubs and 120 participants.

'Your commitment to this project has been first class and you have worked hard to achieve the aims and ensured that the entire county has benefitted from your expertise and knowledge through the workshops that you have organised and presented'. He added 'it has been a pleasure working with you and your professionalism and dedication means that I will have no hesitation in recommending you to others'.
Simon Starr, Director

Burntwood Rugby Union Football Club

Posted January 2011

In just 6 months rms has helped Burntwood Rugby Club to secure £145,000 towards improving their club facilities, specifically the provision of additional changing rooms and improving disabled access.

'The level of service from rms sports consultants was of the highest standard, rising to the challenge of tight deadlines and unforeseen constraints'.
Martyn Smith, Chairperson

rms supporting the local sports community

Posted November 2010

rms believes in sport and the good it can achieve in promoting good health and well being, as well as bringing the community together. This is why we are proud to support a local recreational hockey group aimed at getting women back into sport.

The Derby Ducks are a women's recreational hockey team, who meet on a weekly basis to play hockey and develop their skills. They do not play in a league and cater for anyone of any ability. They welcome women over the age of 18 years to come along and join in as no experience is necessary. Sessions are all about fun and enjoyment in a team based environment. For further information see www.derbyduckshockey.co.uk

Launch of Club Development Planning Workshop

Posted October 2010

Mansfield District Council hosted a newly designed workshop based on Club Development Planning and helping sports clubs to produce high quality club development plans. Participants worked through various exercises, with one club describing the session as 'like opening a window'.

'The workshop was very thorough, providing clear and concise details about how to write club development plans, with hints and tips on structure and content'.
Martin Cook, Sports Facilitator

Launch of E-Learning Sports Funding Advisers Award

Posted September 2010

rms sports consultants in association with Fundraising Skills UK Ltd launched a second e-learning course in sports funding, but this time, it is aimed at Sports Development Professionals, who have a club development role as well as individuals studying for a career in sports development. It is accredited by NCFE and is an eight work course on how to advise clubs with funding applications for sports projects.

Trent Rowing Club

Posted August 2010

Trent Rowing Club wanted to secure funding to support new boats and coach education to help them accommodate a growing membership and junior programme. rms secured approximately £20,000 in grant aid support, to help the club purchase a number of new boats as well as support some volunteers to complete a coaching award in rowing. The boats are already being well used and the club's volunteers are also looking forward to completing their coaching awards.

'I would particularly like to thank you for your approachability, and for your drive that ensured that the applications were all compiled and submitted within the agreed timescales'. He added 'your handling of the juggling of paperwork throughout the process meant that we were able to submit multiple applications professionally and on time with excellent results for the club'.
Richard Gipson, Club Secretary

Newcastle (Staffs) Rugby Union Football Club

Posted June 2010

rms sports consultants has secured a further £96,000 on behalf of Newcastle (Staffs) Rugby Union Football Club to help them to provide new floodlights and carry out improvements to the main pitch. These projects will now complete the clubs facility improvements which began with the changing room project and rms helping the club to secure £158,000 towards this project.

'We would not have secured this level of funding without your support, direction and expertise in raising grant aid and we would have no hesitation in recommending your company to other local sports clubs and groups seeking to secure funding and assemble grant applications'.
Tony Marsh, Club President

Sports Funding Workshops

Posted May 2010

With a proven track record in sports funding, rms has developed a Sports Funding Workshop which aims to support Sports Clubs and Groups to assemble high quality funding applications. The workshop is proving to be extremely popular amongst Governing Bodies of Sport, Local Authorities and County Sport Partnerships as being beneficial to clubs and staff. rms has recently delivered its Sports Funding Workshop of behalf of the East Midlands RFU, Mansfield District Council, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent with further bookings received from Sport Nottinghamshire over the coming months.

'rms sports consultants delivered a bespoke Sports Funding Workshop for us providing advice and support to our sports clubs on investment support, funding streams and funding applications which the clubs found extremely informative and beneficial'. He added 'we will definitely be organising future workshops with them'.
Chris Turner, Club Development Manager

Derbyshire Sport

Posted April 2010

Rachel Scott, our senior funding specialist has recently completed a period of 15 months working with Derbyshire Sport, providing funding support. Whilst she was there, she was able to secure approximately £1.2m in just 15 months on behalf of a range of different groups and organisations in Derbyshire towards a variety of sports projects, which included one of only a few projects to be funded by Sport England in the first Sport England Themed Round - Rural Communities Fund and Youth Sector Development Fund.

'Securing funding for sport and active recreation is becoming more and more competitive. I was delighted with the support provided by Rachel in this area. Not only did she help us to secure over £1m in new income, but we were also able to improve the quality of the funding advice to partners on our web site and through a series of workshops. I was impressed by the quality of Rachel's work and delighted with the outcomes'.
David Joy, Director

Fundraising Skills UK Ltd

Posted September 2009

rms sports consultants produced training materials and case studies for a new Open College Network accredited e-learning course - The Certificate in Sports Funding on behalf of Fundraising Skills UK Ltd, an e-learning organisation specialising in fundraising training. It was launched by rms sports consultants and Fundraising Skills UK Ltd in May 2009 and is proving to be very popular. The course is designed to help sport clubs and sports development professionals and students to have a greater understanding of writing a high quality grant application to secure funding for sport. The certificate comprises of six modules which are easily completed over a six week period and cover many subjects including project planning, club development and evidencing need.

'The quality of the training materials is a real testament to the professionalism and eye for detail offered by rms sports consultants'.
Louise Germaney, Course Director

Notts County Football In the Community

Posted May 2009

rms has continued to support Notts County Football In the Community with further fundraising and has just helped them to secure a further £603,000 to expand the Active Schools project in Nottingham City schools.

'The project will help to engage lots more children from the inner city areas of Nottingham into sport and physical activity using football and indoor rowing'. He added 'we would not have secured this level of funding for this project without rms sports consultants'.
Steve Hill, Community Director

Derby Ducks Hockey Group

Posted April 2009

rms sports consultants has helped newly formed hockey group the Derby Ducks to secure £1,560 towards goalkeeping equipment and coaching support over a 12-month period.

'We can now play hockey safely with our new goalkeeping equipment and the coaching will also help us to improve our game and learn the rules whilst encouraging more local women back to recreational sport'. She added 'rms offered the Derby Ducks - a small recreational hockey group a professional and dedicated service and were a pleasure to do business with'.
Caroline Mason, Team Manager

Newcastle (Staffs) Rugby Union Football Club

Posted September 2008

rms sports consultants have recently secured £154,000 on behalf of Newcastle (Staffs) Rugby Union Football Club towards the refurbishment of the Club's changing rooms. It involved making bids to various funders over a 12 month period and the new changing rooms will be ready for this coming rugby season.

'There is no doubt that without your support and knowledge of the procedures in securing funding it is most likely that this project would not have taken place'. He added 'I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for assisting the club to achieve its major objective of refurbishment of the changing rooms'.
Tony Marsh, Club President

Notts County Football In the Community

Posted July 2008

rms sports consultants has recently secured £281,000 from various sources on behalf of Notts County Football In the Community which will be used to deliver a project which will aim to engage lots of children from the inner city areas of Nottingham into regular sport and physical activity using football and indoor rowing.

'I have no doubt that without the knowledge, expertise and professionalism of rms sports this project would not be in a position to progress into 3 years of valuable work combating child obesity'. He added 'Notts County FITC is involved in lots of different projects and if any projects arise in the future I will have no hesitation but to contact rms sports consultants'.
Steve Hill, Community Director

RFUW Midlands Conference

Posted July 2008

rms sports consultants recently delivered a sports funding workshop at the RFUW Midlands Conference held at Worcester Rugby Club in June. The Clubs in attendance found the workshop very interesting with some useful information on how to prepare a successful funding application.

'It really helped our fledgling clubs (and some of our more experienced ones) in having such a specific and yet simple workshop. All went away with a better understanding and some since have been in touch to say it has helped with their funding applications'.
Claire Antcliffe, RFUW Midlands Regional Development Manager

Sport England

Posted May 2008

rms was recently commissioned by Sport England West Midlands to carry out a self audit of grant management files to ensure that they complied with national Sport England standards. One hundred and fifty eight files from current and legacy programmes were assessed against a template through a self audit system to ensure that all records and documents were in place electronically and manually. This involved on a file by file basis and on the electronic grants management system a systematic search and recording of key items of paperwork, documents, records and returns.

'I would like to thank you and the rms team for the excellent work undertaken in reviewing our grant management files. I found rms to be both thorough in their approach yet flexible in your response to our needs. The timescales in particular were very tight and the rms team responded well to this challenge'.
Ian Silvera, Head of Investment

Nottingham Rowing Club

Posted February 2008

Following considerable club development planning over a number of months rms then helped Nottingham Rowing Club to secure a total of £174,000 over a 2-year period to support the delivery of a range of different projects including an indoor rowing project within the local School Sport Partnership, the establishment of a junior rowing academy, changing room refurbishment and work place rowing project.

'rms is easy to work with and keeps up to date with current trends, progresses work well keeping to deadlines and delivers outstanding paperwork'. He added 'I have just taken delivery of the closing files - they are extensive, clear and comprehensive. As a retired Head teacher I envy the skills that rms has bought to the projects - Ofsted would have been even more impressed!'.
Keith Atkinson, Club President

rms prides itself on producing high quality and detailed work which will help clients move forward and achieve results.