Sport Clubs in Sweden

Fahlén, Josef

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17635-2_19

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“…It has also been suggested that informal opportunities can provide a valuable opportunity to expand participation to groups traditionally marginalised within mainstream sporting settings, including people of low socio-economic status, culturally diverse communities and women Church 2015, 2017). However, other studies have proposed that non-structured spaces can simply reproduce the hierarchies and masculine hegemony evident in mainstream sport (Fahlén 2015), and that participation in informal sport needs to be acknowledged as having its own inequities. For example, access to many informal sport opportunities requires particular socio-economic, social and cultural resources.…”

Section: Research Insights Into Informal Sport Participationmentioning

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Managing informal sport participation: tensions and opportunities

Jeanes

Spaaij

Penney

et al. 2018

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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This article critically examines the role of informal sport within attempts to increase sport participation. Informal sport is a contested concept that government and non-government agencies are grappling with. In this article, the focus is on participation that is self-organised and not club based. The research reported reflects that at present, policy makers and practitioners have not seriously considered how informal sport may be positioned as a central facet in efforts to respond to participation objectives and associated health and social policy agendas. Drawing on semistructured interviews with stakeholders responsible for promoting community sport participation in Victoria, Australia, the authors explore some of the tensions and challenges that stakeholders experience in supporting and managing informal sport. The findings indicate that current practices limit the potential of informal sport. Drawing on concepts from collaborative governance, the article concludes that changes to both culture and practices within sport development systems are required in order for stakeholders to harness the potential of informal participation.

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Section: Research Insights Into Informal Sport Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing informal sport participation: tensions and opportunities

Jeanes

Spaaij

Penney

et al. 2018

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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“…There could be a conflict between results-oriented, competitive values and healthy, sports-for-all, democratic values (Peterson, 2008;Skille, 2010;Stenling and Fahlén, 2009). The Swedish sports movement is described by (Fahlén, 2015) as combining professional sports with the popular mass movement tradition in clubs and organizations that arrange various activities along a continuum from popular and amateur to elite and professional. A goal of sports clubs can be to attract more participants, which may be part of a marketing strategy, for example when schools try to attract students by having successful sports teams (Haycock and Smith, 2011).…”

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How sports clubs include children and adolescents with disabilities in their activities. A systematic search of peer-reviewed articles

Geidne¹,

Jerlinder²

2016

Sport Science Review

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Y oung people with disabilities participate in sports to a lesser extent than other adolescents. That physical activity has positive effects on young people are understood. Sports clubs are identified as potential environments for physical activity. The reasons why young people with disabilities participate to a lower extent in organized sport is complex and barriers can be deriving from many different levels. However, barriers have been studied more than what can facilitate participation in organized sport. Therefor the aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how sports clubs include children and adolescents with disabilities in their activities. The results of this systematic search are presented using the three research questions: What are the characteristics of the sports clubs that include young people with disabilities?; How are the young people with disabilities included in sports clubs' activities?; and finally Why are young people with disabilities included in the sports activities?. A vision must be to go from adapting physical activity for disabled persons to adapting physical activity for all people, because the diversity of people's reasons for doing sports, their differing backgrounds and their uniqueness all demand it. This will result in more people doing sports for longer in life.

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“…Consequently, VSCs in several countries, e.g. Flanders (Vos et al, 2011), Norway (Skille, 2015), and Sweden (Fahlén, 2015), receive government subsidies.…”

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Public subsidies for sports clubs in Germany: funding regulations vs. empirical evidence

Feiler

Wicker

Breuer

2018

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Research question: The purpose of this study is to examine if the funding principles set by sport policies at different governmental levels in Germany are associated with the actual receipt of subsidies by voluntary sports clubs. Put differently, this study analyses whether the engagement of sports clubs in different areas promoted by the government is financially rewarded. Research methods: This paper is based on a three-wave balanced panel dataset obtained from an online sports club survey in Germany (n = 1275). Three Heckman selection models were applied to identify if fulfilling different funding principles affected the receipt of subsidies from sports organisations, states, and communities. Results and Findings: The results show that the fulfilment of funding conditions is rewarded in different ways: while some policy regulations are reflected in the receipt of subsidies, others are not. Specifically, competitive sport and youth promotion activities, which are traditional focuses of clubs and public funding, are financially supported, while health sport, a newer funding area, is not, despite governmental policies proposing support for health-enhancing sport offers. Implications: This study adds to existing knowledge on financing voluntary sports clubs by empirically testing whether and to what extent funding conditions based on sport policies translate into clubs actually receiving subsidies. From a managerial perspective, developing programmes for youth seems promising since such programmes are financially supported at different governmental levels. Moreover, clubs should apply for subsidies to cover any costs related to core sport needs (equipment and travel) and for basic funds.

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Sport Clubs in Sweden

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Managing informal sport participation: tensions and opportunities

Managing informal sport participation: tensions and opportunities

How sports clubs include children and adolescents with disabilities in their activities. A systematic search of peer-reviewed articles

Public subsidies for sports clubs in Germany: funding regulations vs. empirical evidence

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