starting a sports club

quebec

hey, so I've been toying with the idead of stating a sports club in trinity, but haven a clue how i might go about the formalities.

Anyone else ever started a club thats been successful or failed. Any help is greatly appreciated

Much better chance if you can spin it off as a society.

DUCAC are much harder to deal with

quebec

are there other sports that are listedas societies?

Epic Tissue

What is it?

quebec

its a wakeboarding club.

t0mm

Cycling is Trinity's newest club, we received club status this year. Firstly, you need to let DUCAC know that you want to be a Sports club. You must then exist as an unofficial club for two full college years. If in that time you have enough members, interest and potential for expansion and medals, then you MIGHT be given club status. I say might as DUCAC have a limit of 50 sports clubs that they are willing to fund, and at the moment there are 50 clubs. Triathlon are trying to become an official club but can't unless another club is removed. Clubs come and go, windsurfing is on the way out as they no longer function, so it might be a good idea to take over windsurfing and turn that into and windsurfing and wakeboarding club (act fast though, it will most likely be gone next year). You are going to need numbers, and be organised, get a committee together, do it all properly. There is a lot of work involved, this isn't something to be taken lightly. Good luck!

quebec

quebec wrote: »

its a wakeboarding club.

Paintball are (or at least were) a soc.

There is a surf club though, and its very big, popular and sucessful. In the eyes of the college, you may be deemed to similar to them.

quebec

so what, they might say link in with the surf club or something?

Cantab.

t0mm wrote: »

Cycling is Trinity's newest club, we received club status this year. Firstly, you need to let DUCAC know that you want to be a Sports club. You must then exist as an unofficial club for two full college years. If in that time you have enough members, interest and potential for expansion and medals, then you MIGHT be given club status. I say might as DUCAC have a limit of 50 sports clubs that they are willing to fund, and at the moment there are 50 clubs. Triathlon are trying to become an official club but can't unless another club is removed. Clubs come and go, windsurfing is on the way out as they no longer function, so it might be a good idea to take over windsurfing and turn that into and windsurfing and wakeboarding club (act fast though, it will most likely be gone next year). You are going to need numbers, and be organised, get a committee together, do it all properly. There is a lot of work involved, this isn't something to be taken lightly. Good luck!

Please tell me you're affiliated as the Dublin University Bicycle Club and not the Trinity Cycling Club? The DUBiC has a great history and it would be an awful shame to go against the grain of historical precedence by going off on a modernist tangent of your own.

t0mm

Cantab wrote:

Please tell me you're affiliated as the Dublin University Bicycle Club and not the Trinity Cycling Club? The DUBiC has a great history and it would be an awful shame to go against the grain of historical precedence by going off on a modernist tangent of your own.

I'm afraid we're Dublin University Cycling Club. However there are a lot of DUCCs around, so we were talking about changing it, though to something along the lines of a mountain biking club, as that is all we cater for atm. Have you got any information of our past forms, I would love to hear any information you have.

Cantab.

t0mm wrote: »

I'm afraid we're Dublin University Cycling Club. However there are a lot of DUCCs around, so we were talking about changing it, though to something along the lines of a mountain biking club, as that is all we cater for atm. Have you got any information of our past forms, I would love to hear any information you have.

Peter Henry (the guy who writes the "Old Trinity" column in Trinity News) has loads of information and old photographs of the DUBiC.

Can anyone guess what the DUM&LCC stands for? A wonderful club from a bye-gone era!

BlueCam

t0mm wrote: »

Cycling is Trinity's newest club, we received club status this year. Firstly, you need to let DUCAC know that you want to be a Sports club. You must then exist as an unofficial club for two full college years. If in that time you have enough members, interest and potential for expansion and medals, then you MIGHT be given club status. I say might as DUCAC have a limit of 50 sports clubs that they are willing to fund, and at the moment there are 50 clubs. Triathlon are trying to become an official club but can't unless another club is removed. Clubs come and go, windsurfing is on the way out as they no longer function, so it might be a good idea to take over windsurfing and turn that into and windsurfing and wakeboarding club (act fast though, it will most likely be gone next year). You are going to need numbers, and be organised, get a committee together, do it all properly. There is a lot of work involved, this isn't something to be taken lightly. Good luck!

The American football club will also be due full recognition next year, and in terms of numbers both registered and active I believe they're far larger than the triathlon club.

europerson

Cantab. wrote: »

Can anyone guess what the DUM&LCC stands for? A wonderful club from a bye-gone era!

That would be the rather quaint Dublin University Motorcycle and Light Car Club.

t0mm

BlueCam wrote:

The American football club will also be due full recognition next year, and in terms of numbers both registered and active I believe they're far larger than the triathlon club.

AFAIK it is not done on who is larger/more active, but who has been waiting longest, and from our dealings with DUCAC it will be the smaller, cheaper club that will gain preference.

All this is speculation, I do not know 100%, ask DUCAC for more/better information. It could be a case of neither being recognised and both having to wait until another club folds.

M450

I believe the pool club, (as in billiards), is classed as a society rather than a sports club too.

AlexD

Ducac should concentrate on improving and expanding involvement in the clubs we have already. There's already a surfing and bodyboarding club, and other watersport clubs, surely wakeboarding, if such an activity is demanded or needed in college, could come under one of these club's remit. I've nothing against wakeboarding, but there has to be some limit on the number of clubs.

t0mm

AlexD wrote: »

but there has to be some limit on the number of clubs.

There is. It's fifty.