A new modelling tool that helps local authorities show how sport benefits their economy has been launched by Sport England.
The ‘Economic value of sport – local model’ provides each local authority, county sport partnership (CSP) and local enterprise partnership area with estimates on sports’ contribution to the local economy in the form of business output and jobs as well as wider benefits like health. It also includes guidance on how to best use this evidence.
The newly-created model gives a “snapshot” of the overall value of sport in the local area, indicating the contribution made by businesses and services supporting people playing sport plus the wider interests in sport (e.g. sports broadcasting or spectating at sporting events)
