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Informationen zum Autor Geoff Nichols is a senior lecturer at Sheffield University Management School. His main research interests are volunteers in sports clubs and events; management of sports clubs run by volunteers and the volunteering legacy of sports events. Recent research has included the volunteering legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games! a national survey of sports clubs in the UK (for the Sport and Recreation Alliance)! and research into how sports clubs recruit new volunteers (for Sport England). He has worked on two previous national surveys of sports clubs (both also conducted for Sport England). Since 2009 he has chaired the Sports Volunteering Research Network. Klappentext Volunteers are central to providing opportunities to play sport! whether helping to run sports clubs! helping in school sport or at sports events. This volume focuses on the volunteers who support clubs. Zusammenfassung Volunteers are central to providing opportunities to play sport, whether helping to run sports clubs, helping in school sport or at sports events. This volume focuses on the volunteers who support clubs. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Sports volunteering 2. An examination of the importance and satisfaction sports participants attach to volunteering support contextualized within a broader measure of satisfaction with the quality of the sporting experience 3. Consequences of the decrease in volunteers among German sports clubs: is there a substitute for voluntary work? 4. The relationship between types of sports club and English government policy to grow participation 5. Determinants of sports volunteering and sports volunteer time in England 6. Increasing sports participation in Scotland: are voluntary sports clubs the answer? 7. Connecting the community through sport club partnerships 8. Finnish sports club as a mirror of society 9. Development of the sporting nation: sport as a strategic area of national policy in Japan ...
