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SPORTSwww.sportsmanagement.co.uk MANAGEMENT VOLUME 13 Q2 £7 GROWING THE CRYSTAL PALACE GRASSROOTS Reopens its doors to international events England Athletics looks towards 2012 and beyond CCPR’S TIM LAMB ON CHAMPIONING SPORT AND RECREATION THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF SAPCA ACTIVE PEOPLE How the Sport England and Lottery programme got more people to take up sport THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE READ SPORTS MANAGEMENT ONLINE OF SAPCA WWW.SPORTSMANAGEMENT.CO.UK/DIGITAL EDITOR’S LETTER SPORTSwww.sportsmanagement.co.uk MANAGEMENT Challenging times for sport VOLUME 13 Q2 £7 GROWING THE CRYSTAL PALACE GRASSROOTS Reopens its doors to international events England Athletics looks towards peaking at the recent CCPR national conference in London, chair, Brigid Simmonds, warned 2012 and beyond CCPR’S TIM LAMB delegates that the recession is hitting sports clubs hard and threatening to undermine the ON CHAMPIONING SPORT AND RECREATION THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF SAPCA S sector, with up to 6,000 clubs – 4 per cent of the UK total – threatened with closure. ACTIVE PEOPLE How the Sport England and Lottery programme got more The Deloitte Sports Business Group researched the state of the market by taking a snapshot of sports people to take up sport clubs in April this year. It found that half have been negatively affected by the recession, over 40 per cent had seen a reduction in renewals and 59 per cent expect membership fee income to fall again next year. Up to 60 per cent of clubs told Deloitte that they had already started cutting costs or were planning READ SPORTS MANAGEMENT ONLINE WWW.SPORTSMANAGEMENT.CO.UK/DIGITAL to do so soon – 50 per cent from their kit or facilities budgets, 23 per cent from coaching and 23 per Usain Bolt will compete at cent from ‘grassroots or community initiatives’. 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