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Sport
and Recreation is an industry
that incorporates the day to day
running of amateur and professional
sports clubs, and the promotion
of an active and healthy lifestyle
through the provision of sporting
activities across a variety of
environments. The sub-sector covers
a variety of career paths including
coaching, officiating, sports
development, administration, and
sports or leisure facility management.
With a workforce of 621,000 people
in paid employment throughout
the UK, working in 40,000 businesses
and organisations, and spread
across the public, private and
voluntary sectors, a career in
sport and recreation can be both
diverse and rewarding. The industry
has growth forecasts and the potential
to expand to a workforce of 483,000
in paid employment by 2008. As
a result of an increasingly inactive
population, obesity related diseases
are becoming more and more frequent
throughout the population. One
of the key Government objectives
is to improve the health of the
nation, and they see one means
of achieving this aim as investing
in sport and physical activity
programmes and environments.
There are many ways to get involved
in the delivery of sport and activities
and most of the Home Country Sports
Councils have various initiatives
designed to get people involved
in sport, keep them engaged with
sport, and achieve success on
the national and international
sporting stage by winning medals,
World Cups and major sporting
events. Many young people only
consider working in sport in a
playing or performance capacity,
and do not realize that many of
the highest profile athletes require
the daily support of a large number
of supporting professions including
physiotherapists, nutritional
experts, psychologists and coaches
to be able to reach the heights
of high level performance.
Sport has been acknowledged as
a great vehicle for community
development and cohesion, a tool
for engaging with disillusioned
adults and those young people
not in education or training,
and for engaging the general public
during rugby or football World
Cups and the Olympic and Paralympic
Games. The news that the Olympic
and Paralympic Games will be held
in London in 2012 was enthusiastically
celebrated by the majority of
the population across the UK.
There will be many opportunities
leading up to the hosting of the
Games and during the delivery
of the event for the general public
to get involved through the delivery
of coaching activities, officiating
at matches and tournaments, international
guest liaison, special performances
and promotional work. For more
information about the build up
to the Olympics and Paralympics
please visit the website at www.london2012.co.uk.
There are also a huge number of
related professions for which
there is limited detail within
this site but there are some relevant
links which you might find useful
– these include teaching,
sports marketing and agency, manufacturing,
events management, youth and community
work, public relations, hospitality,
journalism and media, sports law,
and retail.
For more information about working
in the area of grounds maintenance
and green keeping please contact
LANTRA the Sector Skills Council
for Environmental and Land-Based
Sector at www.lantra.co.uk or
The Institute of Groundsmanship
at www.iog.org.
For more information about working
in the Audio Visual Industries
please contact the relevant Sector
Skills Council at www.skillset.org.
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