Session 7. Draft Strategic Plan & Forum Wrap Up

Alison Newton presents a draft strategic plan to encapsulate everything that has been discussed over the forum, the group provides feedback, and we draw to a conclusion.

Session 6. Professional Project Proposals (Workshop)

Eleonora discusses how to make your event look more professional to external organisations with project proposals.

Session 5.3. Player Retention (Workshop)

Having discussed Branding and Recruitment, Ajantha leads discussion on what makes people stay in the sport and what makes people leave, in order to interrogate how best to improve retention in the sport.

Session 5.2. Player Recruitment (Workshop)

Ajantha discusses how to take your club's brand and advertise it to recruit new members. The group does some brainstorming about recruitment at different levels and various challenges that teams face.

Session 5.1. Building a Brand (Workshop)

Ajantha discusses ideas around branding, how to brand quidditch, how to brand a club, and looks at examples from existing clubs around the world. We also look at some social-media do's and don'ts from Tegan Diep.

Session 2.5. Referee Support (Open Space)

For the final Open Space Discussion, Maria leads discussion around refereeing, how to bring in more new referees, and how to improve the standard and experience of referees.

Session 2.4. Volunteer Recruitment & Upskilling (Open Space)

For Open Space Discussion 4, Courtney brings the focus to creating resources to help develop skills in volunteers like coaches, and the group has a broader discussion around volunteer recruitment and upskilling in general.

Session 2.3. Youth Leagues and Recruitment (Open Space)

For Open Space Discussion 3, Kelsey brings the focus to developing youth leagues as a source of long term recruitment, and the group discusses recruitment and outreach activities generally.

Session 2.2. Money & Fundraising (Open Space)

For Open Space Discussion 2, Logan brings the focus to money, grants, and fundraising for quidditch.

Session 2.1. Open Space Introduction & Change the Name

Jamie introduces Open Space Technology, the group comes up with five major strategic focuses for QA over the next five years, and we have a focused discussion around the first - changing the name of quidditch.

Session 1.3. Creating a Vision Statement

Having discussed values and our vision, the group tries to come up with a single ‘tag-line’ type statement to encapsulate these ideas, that might serve as Quidditch Australia’s vision statement. Listen to our discussion and see what we came up with.

Session 1.2. Values & Vision

In this session, we take the ideas raised in our introductions and try to brainstorm values we associate with quidditch, and all things that are good and important in the sport that we want to make sure stays a part of it in the future. We also look to the values of the IQA as an example, and use this as a lead in to start discussing where we would like to see the sport in 5 years.