The challenges of sports governance
Sports organisations face unique hurdles alongside the usual governance challenges of admin overload, wasted time, and scattered documents. These include:
Volunteer-led boards: In New Zealand, around 75% of sports organisations are governed by volunteers (closer to 90% at the community level). In Australia over 90% of all organisations are volunteer-led. Many first-time volunteers who are parents or caregivers have little governance experience, which can make stepping into a board role daunting.
Sustainability and continuity: When board members rotate frequently, institutional knowledge is often lost unless it's captured and shared.
Ad-hoc onboarding: New board members can struggle to get up to speed when agendas, minutes, and policies are scattered across emails, drives, and paper files.
Risk and compliance pressure: From codes of conduct and incident reporting to funding obligations and new legislation such as the Incorporated Societies Act, governance responsibilities bring heavy admin.
High turnover: Seasonal changeovers create risk if records and decisions aren't stored centrally.
Your organisation needs a simple, reliable solution that works for every board member—regardless of governance experience.
How BoardPro simplifies sports governance
Imagine board meetings with everything in one place, and everyone on the same page!
BoardPro takes the stress out of governance. What once relied on emails, shared drives, and paper files becomes a streamlined process, saving hours every month. Leaders feel more confident, volunteers are supported, and your organisation can demonstrate accountability to funders and stakeholders.
Seamless onboarding for new sports board members
BoardPro makes onboarding seamless. New members can instantly access past agendas, minutes, policies, and decisions in one secure platform, so they quickly understand how the organisation works. This continuity reduces the learning curve and boosts volunteer confidence from day one.
BoardPro’s 5-star customer success team offers:
- real people (not chatbots) around the clock
- average response times under five minutes
- after-hours and weekend support
- a resource centre packed with templates, webinars, and governance best-practice guides
Cost-effective board management for sports boards
BoardPro offers all non-profit and professional sports organisations, from grassroots clubs through to global associations, a cost-effective board management solution.
Non-profit sports organisations benefit from special rates—so you can focus on growing your organisations and supporting your athletes, not your admin.
BoardPro delivers time back to our organisation, so we can spend more time saving lives.
Steven Pearce
Chief Executive Officer - Surf Life Saving NSW
Build agendas effortlessly
With BoardPro's Meeting Agenda Builder you can:
- build an agenda using best practice templates to ensure good governance
- clone a previous agenda to save time
- automate the regular tasks of confirming the minutes, and reviewing the interest register and action lists
Take minutes in real time
Use BoardPro's Minutes to:
- save time by taking minutes against each agenda item in real time
- record minutes as notes, decisions, and actions
- automatically send a formatted, professional document to the board after a meeting
- sign minutes in two clicks at the time of confirming them, to align with the board management workflow
Build board packs in minutes
BoardPro's Board Pack Builder saves you time with stress-free board pack production and distribution. You can:
- create a single board pack of supporting files
- add late papers and changes with ease
- distribute to the board with one click
- annotate your board papers online
