Hi, my name is Kieran Matthews and I am applying for the role of Vice President of Sport. I am currently in my 4th year of an Events Management degree which has offered me many opportunities within sport that I can use to keep RGU Sport moving forward.
Experience
- I created one of the biggest student tennis events in Britain called ‘The British Social Challenge’. This was made up of 60 students from across Britain with teams coming from as far away as Bath and Cardiff to take part over a weekend last April. This event raised £700 for RGU Sport and this year it looks like it could make over £1000.
- This helped the Tennis club raise £400 over their expect target.
- I have been on the Tennis committee for 3 years and over those years I have been men’s team captain, Ambassador, Vice President and I am now President this year so I know exactly how much work goes in to making a club successful. Throughout those years I feel I have been influential in helping the club get most improved club 2 years ago and I was in the men’s team last year when we were promoted.
- Since joining the committee I have been influential in increasing club membership from only 40 members in 2016 to over 60 members now in 2018. In addition we now have 2 men’s teams and a development team too due to the size of our squad now.
- Through being an Ambassador last year I was picked to be one of 25 students in Britain to be on a Student Network programme which involved me meeting and working alongside other Ambassadors from the different Universities in Britain. I learned a lot through listening to how other universities run their sports clubs and I would like the opportunity to offer these ideas to the various clubs at RGU in order to help them keep developing.
Why vote for Kieran
- Vote for supporting clubs who are struggling with fundraising targets. For too long we have cut trainings and talked about how poor it is that a club has failed to meet a target. It is time to change this and I will do this by contacting each club to ask how they are getting on with fundraising. If they are struggling I will personally help the club put on an event if needed. (Organising a joint bag back for these clubs would be easy and quick money).
- Vote for more recognition for sports club committees. I understand how stressful it can be to juggle coursework and run a club! I will look into what benefits we can offer committee members as soon as the post starts if I was to be voted in.
- Vote for more support with training courses for student coaches and other members of the committee. Not all coaches are aware of the support already offered by RGU financially for these courses so I would make all club coaches aware of these opportunities.
- Vote for making sure all events are planned well in advance so that all clubs have time to advertise these events effectively to their clubs. I will do this by supporting both SPAT and Gavin throughout the year with the running of the events. Through studying Events Management I know how much time and planning needs to go in to making an event as enjoyable as possible.
- Vote for an approachable Vice president who will always try to help clubs in any way I can throughout the year.
Thank you for reading and make sure you vote Kieran when voting opens on the 12th of November