About us

Mission statement:

Sport Guildford shall be a proactive sports and leisure forum, providing opportunities for Sports Development within local sports, recreation and leisure clubs together with strategic leisure planning for the benefit of the local community.

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Sport Guildford is best described as the functioning cooperation of main sports clubs based in Guildford. IT is a completely independent organisation, although the operation and function is heavily supported by Guildford Borough Council in a number of key ways. These include some Officer administrative and functional support, as well as meeting rooms etc. A major part of the Guildford sporting landscape is the annual allocation of a considerable sum of money by GBC that is administered and distributed by Sport Guildford for the direct benefit of individuals and clubs.

Sport Guildford provide a regular forum whereby local clubs can pool and share best practice, learn more about the wider – and constantly changing - statutory position and operational legal requirements and share the success of clubs and individuals in a number of ways. This includes the Annual Awards Evening.

Current Sport Guildford Officers:

Chair – Mike Clark
Vice-Chair – Stuart Brown/ Tony Gorham
Secretary – Colin Deans
Treasurer – Jeff Bayton

Other Committee Members – Gavin Baker, Madi Benson, Matt Chilcott, Heather Dean, Amy Fawcett, Tony Gorham, Vicki Hansford, Barry Hitchcock, Cllr Nigel Manning, Richard McVittie, Cllr Marsha Moseley,

Sponsors

Sponsorship opportunities abound. There are (add a figure?) daily hits on the website by people from across the entire spectrum of age, interest, ability and background. We run some high profile events and activities and some that are really focussed on aiding and supporting the grass roots development of sport. Much of what we do is facilitating other worthwhile agendas. The Surrey Youth Games is a good example. We do not run the Games but we actively provide some expertise, time and service to it that is invaluable to its’ continued and growing success.

As of today, there are no sponsors for Sport Guildford – at least as such. Guildford Borough Council recognise Sport Guildford to deliver some key benefits to local sport – including funding distribution. Many of our individual activities are sponsored to enable them to function. These include the support of the annual Sport for All Day given by Spectrum Leisure Centre and many sponsors of the various awards distributed to deserving sportspeople. The Sport for All Day is a day deliberately aimed at some of our local young people who have not always been included (or sometimes even considered) in main-stream sport.

If you would like to find out more about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Stuart Brown at SR.Brown@stuartbrownpartnership.com  or Tony Gorham at anthony.gorham@surreycc.gov.uk