Protecting sport and recreation

Protecting sport and recreation

As a sector which is run largely on a voluntary basis – often from board level to club coach – it is sometimes easy to upset the way in which sport and recreation is delivered. Limiting factors like funds and the time of volunteers mean that even the smallest of changes to the sporting landscape can have serious implications for the community club infrastructure.

An important part of CCPR’s role is to protect sport and recreation from adverse and unnecessary change (caused, for example, by poorly drafted legislation) by monitoring political and regulatory developments and, where necessary, campaigning against them. These developments can come from all angles – from as far afield as Brussels and as close to home as the Treasury or the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. CCPR’s job is to ensure that, as far as possible, sport’s fabric is protected and its interests looked after. Recent successes have included achieving an exemption for sports stadia from the Private Security Industry Act, dissuading European politicians from including recreational water within the scope of the Bathing Water Directive and pressing for the inclusion of sport and recreation in the Government’s anti-obesity strategy.