Sport

Planning for and promoting the development of local sport is one of our core activites. We are regularly advising local authorities on the benefits of sport and active recreation for health, community well-being, social inclusion, crime reduction, local prestige……..as well as for its own sake!

Our advice and support to local authorities has been in many forms including:

• Strategy and policy development ‘Best Value’ Service Reviews
• Facility reviews
• Detailed and specialist research, (such as playing pitch, and water sport studies)
• Local consultation exercises with both ‘users’ and ‘non-users’

We also work regularly with the commercial, private and voluntary sectors, such as:

• Advising on the contribution sport can make as part of wider development packages in both urban and rural areas.
• Promoting specific sports projects with local authorities and others on behalf of private/commercial clients.
• Helping and advising the voluntary sector in ‘putting their case’ in a wide variety of ways, including preparing funding bids, and advising and acting as advocates for planning proposals.