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The 2020 Australian Sailing Club Conferences

Published Thu 10 Sep 2020

Every year the Australian Sailing Club Conferences bring together clubs from across each state and are a great way to engage with other clubs and Australian Sailing. This year, due to COVID-19, the physical conferences were cancelled with a national agenda delivered online instead.  The 2020 Club Conference webinar series finished last week with an update from Australian Sailing CEO Ben Houston.

Over winter the nine-week series focused on participation and retention.  We were joined by industry experts including Dr Bridie O’Donnell, Director of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation and Joel Steendam from Network Steadfast, and club representatives Susette Evans, Commodore of Princess Royal Sailing Club and Brett Yardley from Brighton and Seacliff Yacht Club who shared their club success stories and best practice ideas. Together with Australian Sailing staff, the presentations were designed to help clubs develop skills, capacity and further improve their offerings to members.

Across the nine weeks the webinars had 786 live participants from 137 clubs and a further 1006 views online after the event. Thank you to all the club officials, volunteers and staff who attended.  We hope to see you all in person again next year.

Conference Feedback

If you attended any of the Club Conference webinars this year, we would love to hear your feedback through a short survey here.

Webinar Videos

The videos from each Club Conference webinar are available on Facebook in the links below or on our YouTube Channel here.

 

Topic

Presenter

Link

Innovation in Inclusion

Dr Bridie O'Donnell
Director
Office for Women in Sport and Recreation

View Webinar Video Here

Rule 46 and SailPass

Glen Stanaway
Head of Safety, Rules and Representation
Australian Sailing

View Webinar Video Here

Successful Club Marketing During COVID-19

Susette Evans

Princess Royal Sailing Club

View Webinar Video Here

Club Insurance

Joel Steendam
Network Steadfast

View Webinar Video Here

How Australian Sailing programs and resources can help with your club retention

Brett Yardley
Brighton & Seacliff Yacht Club

View Webinar Video Here

Growing your volunteers and training programs: how to attract, develop and retain Instructors, Coaches and Officials

Adam Gristwood & Olivia Newman
The Boatshed

View Webinar Video Here

Risks - Prepare and Respond to an On-Water Crisis

Glen Stanaway
Head of Safety, Rules and Representation
Australian Sailing

View Webinar Video Here

Regional Updates

Australian Sailing

Regional Managers

View Queensland Update here

View South Australia Update here

View Tasmania Update here

View Victoria Update here

View Western Australia Update here

Australian Sailing Update

Ben Houston
CEO
Australian Sailing

View Webinar Video Here

For further information please don’t hesitate to contact your Regional Manager.


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