Business of Curling
According to the mission statement of the Strait Area Community Curling Club in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, the club is “committed to promoting our sport in a friendly atmosphere while providing affordable, quality programs for curlers of all ages and abilities.”
Curling Quebec Announces the Team Captains of the First Caledonia Cup
Our sport keeps chugging along, gaining momentum every week it seems. All the neat stories in the news
In the past couple of weeks (co-incidentally with the start of the curling season!) we have received numerous requests about waivers of liability and assumption of risk agreement. After consulting with Steven Indig from Sport Law & Strategy Group we have developed a few tips and options for you, as well as new updated templates you can use to create your own custom version.
Matt Hames has created a list of 10 tips to get your club’s social media presence up and running. This powerful ‘awareness’ option is a valuable one and it should be leveraged to help build the business at the community level. Good luck with it and we will watch for your presence in this ‘social’ world!!
True Sport, ParticiPaction and the CBC are staging the second Sports Day across Canada on September 17th. The event’s intention is to showcase Canadian sports and to celebrate those sports at the community level.
We have been recently challenged by a couple of curling club managers to consider creating an online forum for club managers and/or Board members where they could share ideas and best practices.
Another off-season is fast coming to a close and the next curling season is right around the corner.
Resby Coutts is from Manitoba and a promoter of our great sport in almost every area of our business imaginable. He wrote this short piece on his web site and it set the bells ringing at my end.
A partnership between Rocks & Rings, Curl BC and the Canadian Curling Association has produced dramatic results in Northern BC.
Audrey Frey is the manager of the Rideau Curling Club in Ottawa, played lead for Anne Merklinger at a number of Tournament of Hearts, AND is about to graduate as a sommelier!!
Remember last February when curling took the world by storm?
Earlier this year, Warren Hansen (CCA Director, Event Operations) wrote an article in the Extra End magazine (delivered to all the buildings in our country). The article focused on the “frugality”
More often than not, many curling facilities ‘react’ to need rather than preparing simple, medium-range plans to guide their future.
Curl BC and the CCA held a Business of Curling Symposium in Vernon, BC the weekend of October 15-17 and some interesting ideas emerged that bear sharing.
True Sport Movement
