“Tri to Invest, South West” - a programme lead by the South West regional committee of Triathlon England to invest local funds and expertise in Triathlon at grass roots level, with the intention of expanding participation and enjoyment in the sport.

“Tri to Invest, South West” - a programme lead by the South West regional committee of Triathlon England to invest local funds and expertise in Triathlon at grass roots level, with the intention of expanding participation and enjoyment in the sport.

Your elected committee in South West region is launching a new initiative through affiliated clubs to help share funding and experience through the region to encourage participation in our sport. The initiative dubbed “Tri 2 Invest South West” works in a very simple manner. The regional committee controls a pot of public money, earned through various aspects of our sport such as coach education and other initiatives. We also hold a great deal of experience in event management, coaching and mentorship and club management. Our role as the committee is to re- invest these funds and this experience in the sport in a responsible and controlled manner.

We would like to introduce a simple painless application process for affiliated clubs in the region to apply for some financial or experience based support for specific initiatives that will fulfil some or all of the following criteria
• Increase participation in our sport within our region

• Increase the enjoyment of our sport by participants
• Improve access to qualified coaching for new entrants into the sport

At the same time as fulfilling some or all of the above we would have an expectation that our time or financial investment would make a significant difference over that the club could afford from its own funds. In short we only want to fund activities that would not be financially viable were it not for our time or investment.

So what sort of activities are we looking for:

In short anything that expands participation in our sport, or the enjoyment of the athletes taking part so here’s a couple of examples:

• Helping put on a local multi-sport event (where all profit will be re-invested into a club)

• Launching a new Triathlon club (that will be affiliated to British Triathlon from launch)

• Adding a youth section to an existing club

• Bringing in qualified professional coaching to a smaller club that relies on volunteers

• Supporting club members purchasing of club branded clothing where otherwise it would not be affordable

• Purchase of coaching equipment for club members use

  So whats next? Simple. Please send a brief of the activity and how you would like our help to our treasurer Ashley Hutchinson on ash.hutch@me.com. We will ask some questions, we may attend a club committee meeting and then proposed to the regions committee and get you a swift answer.