2026 SGA Bursary - Certificate in Sports Governance

SGA Bursary 2026 - Certificate in Sports Governance
Before completing this application form, please ensure that you have read and understood the eligibility criteria and the criteria against which submissions are assessed. These are available on the Certificate in Sports Governance page on the SGA website.

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The following numbered questions will be marked against our application criteria. Please take a moment to review the relevant information for each question to support you with your answer.

Application Criteria
1) Briefly describe your current/intended role and governance responsibilities

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2) How will the Certificate benefit your organisation? Explain how the application of the key skills and knowledge you hope to develop will benefit your organisation's governance.

Please use clear examples to focus on how the course would benefit your organisation.0/400
3) In what ways will completion of the Certificate benefit your governance development as an individual? Please refer both to your current role and future career development

Please refer both to your current role and future career development and use clear examples of how it would benefit both. Please concentrate on your responsibilities, roles and future career development and refrain from mentioning the wider benefits that your improved governance knowledge will have on the organisation as these are covered in the previous question.0/400
4) Describe how the Certificate complements or fits around your other professional development. What other professional development (paid or unpaid) are you undertaking and where will the Certificate fit alongside this?

Professional development could be completing a rigorous training plan set out for you by your organisation, attendance at webinars, conferences, networking events and training that you have undertaken on your own initiative or even reading up on sports governance in your own time.0/250
5) Outline your plans for career progression or future volunteer roles within the sport and physical activity sector and explain how completion of the Certificate will help you add value within your sport or the wider sector.

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Are other sources of funding available to either you or your organisation that will allow you to complete this Certificate? If so, please provide brief details

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