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Every year: check, plan and report
Once a year, check where your club is, choose what to focus on next, and share your progress.
The ten steps aren't a one-off. Committees change, people move on, services change and new members join. What worked last year may need refreshing this year.
A simple yearly routine keeps things going: check where your club is, agree a few priorities for the year ahead, and report on progress. It fits naturally around your club's year, especially the AGM. It means supporting good mental health becomes part of how your club runs, rather than something that depends on one person.
Jump to the game planWhat good looks like
The club takes the Club Check once a year.
The committee agrees two or three priorities for the year ahead, each with someone responsible.
Progress is reported to the committee during the year and at the AGM.
Support roles, the response plan, the support list and training records are kept up to date.
When people in key roles change, there's a handover.
Take the Club Check
The Florio Club Check is a short set of questions covering the five areas of the Florio Framework: Lead, Communicate, Support, Care and Connect. It shows what your club is already doing well and where there's room to improve.
It isn't a test, and there's no pass or fail. It works best when the Mental Health Lead and senior sponsor complete it together, ideally with input from staff and volunteers.
Choose your priorities
You don't need to work on everything at once. Using your Club Check results, choose two or three priorities for the year ahead. They might be steps you haven't started yet, or ways to build on what you already do. For each priority, agree:
What you'll do
Who's responsible
When it will be done by
Share your progress
Reporting keeps the committee involved and shows members what the club is doing.
To the committee: a short update at committee meetings, as often as suits your club.
At the AGM: a paragraph in the annual report or a short update from the Mental Health Lead or senior sponsor, covering what you've done, what's changed and what's next.
To members: a short message about what the club has done this year. Step 8 covers how.
Report on what the club has done, like training completed, events held or the support list updated. Never include information about individuals, or numbers small enough that someone could be identified.
Keeping things up to date
Once a year, it helps to check:
Are your support roles still filled, including after the AGM?
Does your response plan have the right names and contacts?
Is your support list still accurate?
Has everyone in a club role had training, including new people?
Is your policy due for review?
When someone in a key role steps down, ask them to hand over to whoever takes over, including where documents are kept and anything in progress.
Start with
Take the Florio Club Check.
Going further
Make it a standing agenda item
On the committee agenda.
Include a paragraph
In your AGM annual report.
Set reminders
For your yearly check and for reviewing your support list.
Create a handover note
For people in key roles.
Resources for this step
These ten steps are what clubs commit to when they make the free Florio Club Commitment.
Commit to working through them at your own pace, and join a growing movement across the golf community to improve mental health in the game.
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- If life's at risk When there's immediate danger to life. Call 999
- Samaritans Free to call, any time, for anyone struggling. Call 116 123
- Prefer to text? Free and confidential, any time. Text SHOUT to 85258
- NHS 111 in England and Wales Choose option 2 for mental health. Free, 24 hours a day. Call 111
- NHS 24 in Scotland Choose the mental health option. Free, 24 hours a day. Call 111