Sustainability of a Club depends on the commitment and dedication of your management team. The Club needs to ensure it has skilled people in key governance, leadership, management and delivery positions. Engage people with diverse backgrounds to run club activities. Consider club members’ strengths and weaknesses, provide clear roles and responsibilities.

To ensure club sustainability, it is important to retain members. Create a sense of belonging for all team members and make sure they know and promote the mission of your Club. Make sure to acknowledge contributions of your management team and volunteers and thank them for their service.

Have a succession plan for your core leadership team. Another important part of sustainability is consistent operational (short-term) and strategic (long-term) planning. A good plan will identify how the club will work towards the club’s goals. If the club isn’t very clear on what it will do and who will be doing it, then there will always be a risk of the club not being successful. Planning should be done in close collaboration with the National/State Program team and engage all members of the Club management team.