1. FUNDING
JP2F4S is funded wholly by donations and by
volunteers giving generously of their time. ‘Fair
Share’ is the motto for our fundraising drive: we ask
for people to share whatever they can ‘fairly’ give up
to help our cause and get more young people off the
street and into sport.
STAY IN TOUCH
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FOLLOW US
Twitter @jp2f4s
VISIT
www.johnpaul2foundation4sport.org
EMAIL
info@jp2f4s.org
PHONE
020 8981 9697
07810 116508
WRITE
JP2F4S, Vaughan House
46 Francis Street,
London SW1P 1QN
EDUCATIONTHROUGHSPORT
Alex Sarama, who started the club, is currently
studying at Nottingham University, but runs the club
with a backbone of highly skilled coaches and a team
of volunteers, creating a truly supportive community
club. Alex states, “Fr Vlad’s support has been both
invaluable and inspirational. He has instilled in me the
need to give back to our local community and offer
a quality product. Those of us at Goldhawks feel a
tremendous sense of achievement when we see the
boys and girls playing basketball weekly and being
involved themselves in our club, through supporting
the younger team players and acting as role models.”
Goldhawks is now looking to develop a basketball
programme within a secondary school in association
with Basketball England.
Sport trains body and spirit for
perseverance, effort, courage,
balance, sacrifice, honesty,
friendship and collaboration.
CASE STUDY
Guildford Goldhawks was founded in September
2011 and grew rapidly, becoming Surrey Goldhawks
– now the largest basketball club in SE England. The
club, which joined JP2F4S in 2012, is founded on
strong principles and engages boys and girls from 8
to 18 years old, offering sponsorships as part of their
membership, enabling all to join in. The philosophy is
heavily based on the fundamentals and teaching the
basics thoroughly.
St. John Paul II
Registered Charity Number: 1144087

2. SETTING THE SCENE
The John Paul II Foundation for Sport, launched in the
UK by Pope Benedict XVI in September 2010, became
a registered charity the following year.
The Foundation – JP2F4S as it is also known - seeks to
honour the memory of St John Paul II by using sport at
its very best as a vehicle to enhance and complement
existing educational/sporting establishments.
Whilst Catholic in inspiration, it is – as Christ is – for all.
Whatever people’s race, ethnicity, economic situation,
background or belief, age or ability, they are God’s
beloved and are welcome in JP2F4S.
JP2F4S is akin to a trade association so that, rather
than raising funds for sports clubs, it inspires,
motivates and enables people to set up JP2F4S
standard clubs and then mentors their leaders and
monitors performance to ensure the clubs are worthy
of the the Foundation’s logo.
Our logo on a club is a guarantee of its probity.
STRATEGY
1. Dream vast. Start small. Grow fast
Starting with Sports Squared in West London – the
Foundation’s first Olympic Legacy Club – which opened
in September 2012, we aim to have every school in the
UK affiliated with JP2F4S; with an after-school club in
areas where there are inadequate sports facilities for
young people. By 2020 we aim to have 600 clubs.
2. Have a vision but adapt to changing
circumstances
Whilst working to a plan, we will learn from our
experiences and adapt to changing social and financial
conditions. “Good, better best, we never let them rest;
until our good is better and our better best”.
3. Seek partnerships
We seek to network with everyone in sport and
education, whatever their background and belief.
Templates for setting up clubs, developed from our
experiences, are available to all members, as are our
energies and educational resources. The number of
JP2F4S clubs around the world – currently in Africa
and Australia – is on the increase.
4. Recruit and train volunteers
We aim to identify, recruit and train the right type of
volunteer to contribute to the JP2F4S global family.
INTERNAL STRUCTURE
Every club has an Ambassador who looks after up to five
clubs. Each of these Ambassadors is accountable to a
Coordinator of Volunteers (COV) who manages up to 10
Ambassadors and reports in to the Chief Executive Officer.
An increase in the number of clubs will require additional
COVs. These will be accountable to a newly created
Director, Coordinator of Volunteers (DCOV) who, in turn,
will report to the CEO.
METHODOLOGY
1. Rather than set up clubs, we inspire, motivate
and enable people to establish clubs in their local
communities, enable existing clubs to bring their
standards up to those of JP2F4S and provide
them with the opportunity to use our educational
resources.
2. Every JP2F4S club is responsible for the
implementation of its own policies, checked by us,
and its own funding and insurance. This enables us
to stay administratively slim.
3. We work with four types of clubs:
i. School clubs
ii. After-school clubs
iii. Parish clubs
iv. Stand-alone clubs
4. Every club is assigned an Ambassador whose role
it is to:
a. Monitor standards and performance and
continually ensure all our clubs are worthy of the
JP2F4S logo
b. Identify problems/challenges should these arise
c. Encourage club publicity including photos and
reports for the JP2F4S website and quarterly
newsletter. Encourage discussion via social
media: Facebook and Twitter
d. Offer guidance about fundraising
e. Be a support to the JP2F4S clubs’ managers
Mgr. Vladimir Felzmann with sports club representatives from
St Mary’s Menston