FACILITIES

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FACILITIES

• 1. Outdoor facilities
• 2. Indoor facilities
• 3. Providers of facilities

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OUTDOOR FACILITIES

• Write down as many types of outdoor sports
  facilities you can think of.
• Think of as many different types as you can!

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OUTDOOR FACILITIES

• Sports pitches
• E.g. Athletics tracks
• cross country courses
• football pitches
• hockey pitches
• netball courts
• rounders pitches
• rugby pitches
• tennis courts
• Etc etc etc !!!!!

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• Water sports areas e.g Holme Pierrepoint in
  Nottinghamshire

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• Ski centres artificial or real!

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OUTDOOR FACILITIES

• Outdoor Adventure centres
• These use natural features already there i.e.
  Plas y Brenin

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OUTDOOR FACILITIES

• Equestrian Centres

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OUTDOOR FACILITIES

• Golf courses

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OUTDOOR FACILITIES

• As we have seen these might need to be situated
  in certain places if they need natural features
  sea, lakes, rivers, mountains etc. This means
  that people have to travel to use the facility.
• Man can alter nature and in the past few years we
  have been filling in gravel pits to make lakes
  for example in South Cerney Gloucestershire and
  even building from scratch like Holme Pierrepoint
  especially for water sports.
• Sports pitches need areas of land (preferably
  flat!) for a pitch to be laid down or even built
  in the case of artificial pitches.
• Land is expensive especially in towns and cities
  so many outdoor facilities are located outside
  the towns - outdoor facilities need to be big!!!
  But there is still pressure to use the land for
  other things such as building houses and farming
  so it is still expensive!

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OUTDOOR FACILITIES

• Outdoor adventure centres ( canoeing, climbing,
  mountaineering, orienteering, sailing and skiing)
  are usually well in the country side which means
  that factors such as risk assessment, public
  access and possible damage to the environment all
  have to be considered.
• It is not always easy for members of the public
  to reach outdoor facilities by public transport
  so this can cut down the number of participants
  and spectators.
• Another major problem, well in the UK certainly!,
  is the possibility of bad weather this can put
  off people and may even result in events being
  postponed or cancelled.

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INDOOR FACILITIES

• Main difference between indoor and outdoor
  facilities is that you have some choice as to
  where they can go! However the following must be
  considered
• Population and expected use There is no point
  building a facility if there is no one around to
  use it! You need a lot of people to use the
  facility just to make enough money to run it
  therefore most indoor facilities are built in
  areas of high population.

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INDOOR FACILITIES

• Access People need to be able to reach the
  facility -they may travel by road, rail or even
  by plane ( this would be important if you were
  hoping to hold international comps there)
  therefore transport links need to be good. E.g.
  the badminton championships at the NIA
• Parking This is essential but takes up more land
  and is therefore expensive.

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INDOOR FACILITIES

• Cost This isnt just the cost of the building but
  the cost of the land to build on. The cost of the
  building will be the same more or less anywhere
  but the cost of land varies considerably! It is a
  very important factor in building any new
  facility.
• Natural Features Natural things such as good
  drainage or climate may be very important when
  deciding where to build a sportshall
• Demand There has to be demand for the particular
  type of facility in the area or it will not be
  built, or if it is, it will soon be closed.

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INDOOR FACILITIES

• Competition and rival facilities It is pointless
  to build two facilities close to each other
  unless there is massive demand that one cannot
  handle. You may be able to build several sports
  halls close together but if each had a swimming
  pool and ice rink it would not be worthwhile.
• Flexibility and versatility if the facility can
  offer many different sports they will ultimately
  be more successful as we have already seen that
  sports wax and wane in popularity but they would
  always have something to offer.
• Dual use Many schools have dual use facilities
  both for the school and the community so
  sometimes it is better financially to upgrade
  these than build new.

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Providers of facilities

• The Private Sector
• These are run by individuals, firms or companies
  and they have to be run as businesses and make
  money for their bosses.
• These are usually health clubs
• hotels with
  sports facilities
• holiday camps
• outward bound
  centres
• riding
  schools

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Providers of facilities

• There are also many clubs who are run privately
  and re either owned by the members or by
  companies.
• Some are major facilities in the country
• football stadiums and
  grounds
• rugby grounds
• centres of excellence
• golf clubs
• tennis clubs
• squash clubs
• sports stadiums (such
  as crystal palace)
• large venues such as
  Wembley, The Albert
• Hall, Millennium
  stadium, Twickenham.

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Providers of facilities

• The thing that all these types of facilities have
  in common is that they have to make money or at
  least break even. Clubs owned by members are
  usually happy just to break even as they just
  want to provide the facilities for the members,
  Many jobs are done by the members therefore they
  do not need many staff.
• The larger companies however want to make large
  profits e.g. Man Utd, Tottenham are public
  limited companies which means they have
  shareholders who want dividends (shares of the
  profits).

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Providers of facilities

• Public sector
• These are owned and run by local authorities or
  councils people have to pay to use them but
  anyone can do so.
• These include places such as leisure centres
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  sports halls
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  swimming pools
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  sports pitches
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  schools
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  town halls
• These are financed from the taxes of the people
  living in the borough and are meant to provide
  facilities in the area.

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Providers of facilities

• The cost of these facilities are very high for
  example a swimming pool costs several million to
  build and hundreds of pounds a year to run
  heating, cleaning, maintaining, staffing etc
  there is not one public swimming pool in the
  country which makes a profit.
• They are built in the first place by the local
  authority and then kept going even though they
  are losing money as they continue to be
  subsidised by the tax payer. This does mean that
  the cost of swimming is kept down.
• A problem arises if you live in a rural area as
  there might not be any facilities near to you and
  you may have to travel quite a distance because
  the authority does not have the same money as
  urban areas less people. Local authorities in
  urban areas often have large budgets and are
  therefore able to spend much more on facilities
  bigger and better ones!!