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‘National crisis’: Community sports clubs in battle for survival – Sydney Morning Herald
The head of the Australian Sports Foundation is warning that one in four community sport clubs are at risk of going under as the pandemic tightens its stranglehold.
The ASF survey reports that 70 percent of around 70,000 community clubs expect numbers to fall because of players losing interest or having health and hygiene concerns and 43 percent predict a decline in volunteers, the lifeblood of non-professional sport.
Most sources of revenue memberships, sponsorships, hospitality and fund-raising activities have dried up but the bills still have to be paid, for affiliation, rent, maintenance and utilities. Clubs either have had to draw down on meagre savin…
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