Like many community sports clubs, especially those with charitable status, Vale of York Athletic Community relies heavily on the dedicated efforts of our volunteers. Running a thriving and safe athletics club takes a lot of behind-the-scenes work. Handling memberships, organising training sessions and events, keeping our website updated and planning for our own permanent track and field facilities takes a lot of time and effort. All this work has to be done while keeping costs down so that we can be as accessible as possible to everyone in the Vale of York.
On a recent club visit, in his role as England Athletics Regional chair for Yorkshire and Humberside, our founder, Ian Martin, recently had a discussion with a fellow Club Chair about the range of free software and services to which UK charities are entitled. We wanted to share details of some of this software, and what it can be used for, specifically from the perspective of an athletics club like ours.
