AO4 - Objectives and funding

Analyse the key differences and similarities between the objectives and funding of public, private and voluntary sector sport organisations.

Pro formas

Bellow are the three pro formas that i used to create my final essay:
Volunteer Pro-Forma http://www.scribd.com/doc/89962636/A04-Pro-Forma-Volunteer
Private Pro forma http://www.scribd.com/doc/89962716/A04-Pro-Forma-Private
Public Pro forma http://www.scribd.com/doc/89962866/A04-Pro-Forma-Public

What are the key differences and similarities between the objectives and funding of public, private and voluntary sector sport organisations?

I have been studying public, voluntary and private sports organisations, looking at their funding methods and there organisation objectives. I will be looking at both of these two areas in detail over the three sports organisations looking at there similarities and differences from there I will write two essays disusing them and how they receive or do not reeve particular funding’s depending on there objectives.

Objectives

The three sports that i have chosen are the Football Association (FA), Walcott RFC and Sport England. Walcott and the FA are associated with individual sports this shows a certain similarities because of there exclusivity, however sport England work with a range of sports showing its diversity.

Walcott RFC aims are to work with local children and men to create successful rugby teams their main aims are to create a good standard of rugby and to win matches, although they do not openly advertise participation because it has a large squads and therefore there is no need for more players on the other hand a similarity would be Both of these organisations work with grass routes sports to increased participation. The FA and sport England looks to encourage football participation and promote the national teams and sport England also look to encourage participation across lots of sports, this shows how these sports work in the same way.

The target groups of the three organisation’s are all similar, there all aimed at fairly young children sport women and men. Also they look to people who are new to certain sports this shows how similar they are because there age range is the same. The small differences between the three organisations would be things such as Walcott RFC don’t target there rugby at women because they do now have a women’s rugby team. Also sport England work with a wider range of sports compared the FA and Walcott. There target groups are much wider because of this.

Both sport England and the FA are similar in their pricing structure in the way they they both offer money to grassroots football along with other sport(only sport England) in order to create for opportunity’s for people to play football thus creating better players.  Sport England invested 22 million into grassroots sports with the “just give” scheme while the FA invests 20 million into just football along perhaps showing the importance of football at grassroots level. The FA is although different to sport England by accepting sponsorships, they do this by advertising the products within international games on with adverts in the breaks of the match and on boards pitch side.

The similarities in the standards of facilities are as such. Sport England offer money to sports who are looking to renovate ad better there facility’s they so they would be seen to have good quality facilities an example of this would be there “people places play” scheme that is set up to invest 135 million the infrastructure for the Olympics creating long lasting quality’s facility’s. this would be similar to the FA due to the fact that they are they are a wealthy organisation because of large amounts of money that are recognised within professional football with all this money at their disposal they could afford top class facility’s an example of this would be Wembley stadium costing 789 million and to be used by the England national squad.  These two organisation are different to Walcott RFC where they down own top class facility’s this would be down to the successfulness of the club. With the players being armature and having to pay subscriptions for the club it does not make enough money you to build professional facilities.

Walcott’s RFC works with other partners like sport England for funding to be able to build more facility’s and helps them increase participation for example sport England invest £4.1m per year into club rugby. This link is similar to the FA who also work with amateur football clubs to improve grassroots by such events like the ‘Grassroots football show 2012’ a difference with sport England and the other two organization’s would be that they work with 46 governing bodies as well as grassroots sports.

Funding

The first similarity would be government grants, they are available and are issued to public and volunteer sport organisations, this is because government grants are amounts of money that are given out from the government to non-profit and educational organisations, for example Walcott RFU And sport England are a non-profit organisations and in sport England’s case they offer  some funding for educational purposes, so these funds are made available to them, Walcott rfc could attain a grant from the government by going through an organisation like sport England, similarly sport England are given money from the national lottery for them to non-profit organisation and projects that they see fit to. Unlike where other private company like fitness first would not receive government grants the FA do, they only receive their grant because in a way they work like sport England and put their money back into grass routes football.

Another similarity that I found would be that public and volunteer sports organisations would be eligible for non-government grants, these grants would most likely would like come from a lottery funding, this money from the lottery go’s into such other organisations like sport England then they distribute their money to rugby sports clubs like Walcott RFC for pitch development , improved changing rooms and referees, also public organisations like sport England offers money to grass roots sports to sustain the participation, because they do this and don’t look for a profit , they likely to gain a non-government grants. The reason that a private sports organisation would not be likely to get a non-government grants would be because that the organisations earns its money from other sources, being independent for themselves they would not be offered or accept non-government grants.

Member subscriptions are mainly used in private and volunteer sport organisations, this is because in a private sports organisation’s the FA  don’t have direct member subscription but when they host home international football games they take a profit from the  tickets the money from this pays for such thing like pitch management and maintance , and also players of Walcott RFC will be paying for their season, they pay a one off fee where that pays for the pitch maintenance, referees, insurance and club both of these sectors of organisation are similar  because there members/users are paying for the thing that the organisations can offer, the reason why public organisation’s such as sport England cannot get membership subscriptions would be down to the fact that they don’t have any members, and that there organisation’s is mainly funded by the government and they don’t offer facility’s or services to the public.

Private investments are more likely to happen to private and volunteer organisations, this is because that in a volunteer organisation’s if a company were to sponsor them then for the money that they got they would offer them publicity in return, for example Walcott RFC are sponsored my several companies, there’s companies have been put up on the website, and or the back of their shirts offering publicity when they are worn , also they are provided in the tour book.  private organisation’s would be a very successful target for sponsorship deals and other private investment, if a private investor were to invest into a very successful private organisation like the FA then there matches are aired on TV and are watch by large audiences, where they will see the advertisement causing them to be successfully linked the FA and getting good publicity. But on the other hand public organisations like sports England don’t need sponsorships because they get most of their money from lottery funding and give it all back to the public.

Lottery funding is available for mainly volunteer sports organisations they can get lottery funding because lottery funding is aim at good cause that are non-profitable, Walcott RFC do not currently get lottery funding but they could receive it if they wanted to from such organisation like sport England who get their own lottery funding but not for only rugby but for all grass roots sports. This money would go towards things like new changing rooms and equipment. Sport England is mainly funded from the lottery who then gives their money to grass root sports, this is a similarity between these two organisations. And this example shows how they both work together to benefit each other. Private organisations would not be able to get lottery funding, because they are making a profit and this would not make them eligible for it.

Member loans are mainly used by private organisations, the reason for this would be that because they are a private organisation that they make a profit, a profit meaning that if there members were to loan the company money to sustain their current situation or improve it that they would get it back, so if an company was to loan the FA  a large amount of money than they could and if the FA defaulted on the repayments then the company would be within their right to seize the FA’s capital because they have a large amount of capital then they would guarantee their money back, this situation would not work with public or volunteer organization due to the fact they don’t create any profit  and would be unable to repay the loan.

Financial instruction loans are mainly aimed at private sports organisations, and these reasons are similar to member loans, in the way that for example if the bank was to loan the FA money on the basis that they got that money back to them, although the FA could agree with the bank to advertise them when home international matches on the TV, doing this would compensate for the loan. Once again public and volunteer organisation would not be able to gain financial instruction loans because they would not be able to repay them. A volunteer organisation would not try and offer a sponsorship trade because the chances are that the team are not going to very big and well known making it not a good deal for the bank.

Donations are mainly for volunteer sports organisations because they are non-profit and they offer a services which people are likely to pay for e.g. coaching, Facility’s, people in sport organisations may give several types of donations, for example Walcott RFC have an old member of the club that cuts the grass once a month for free and every season they host such nights like a curry and quiz and disco, where all proceeds go to the club, sporting organisations such as sport England don’t get donation because they get there funding from the national lottery funding and FA  don’t get donations because they already create enough revenue.