A new Slop University brochure showcases the maturity-model programme scoring sports clubs, sheds, choirs, and allotment societies against a published ladder of named levels.
A new brochure sets out how sports clubs, sheds, choirs, and allotment societies are scored, published, and re-audited on a fixed cycle
A raffle stub, a shed sign-in sheet, or a set of AGM minutes now doubles as the entry point to a Slop University maturity assessment, the University’s newest brochure argues. Six recent studies from the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Emergent Priorities anchor a published maturity model that scores any affiliated club, society, or committee willing to hand its records over, and keeps the resulting level on the public register through the audit cycle that follows.
The brochure is the clearest public statement yet of an ambition the University has held quietly for years: that no committee, however small its minute book, should have to guess where it stands.
Every committee we’ve scored has taught us something about what a level even means once it’s published rather than just calculated.
— Dr Joost Nwosu, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Continuous Improvement
Dr Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Lecturer and Convenor of Capability Sprints, welcomed the questions the brochure’s showcase raises about how a club’s own roll relates to the room it actually fills, saying the comparison “is the kind of question we’d rather a committee asked itself before we do.”
The brochure translates the programme’s underlying instruments — a purchase-and-redemption quadrant, a four-state attendance model, an aggregation-rule audit — into a single accessible register, anchoring the University’s committee-maturity agenda in language a club treasurer can act on without needing to read the underlying studies.
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.4j790g.