This guidance note provides clear, concise, comprehensive and up-to-date information on the planning, management and programming of sports facilities in the UK. A programme is the main way of ensuring that the objectives of sports clubs, organizations and facilities are achieved. The publication...

The UK Sports Council's Corporate Plan for the period 1992-95 sets out in detail its key objectives and targets over that period. This document describes the progress made in 1992-93 towards the more significant of these objectives. The order in which the activities are presented broadly follows...

Several indoor cricket schools have been built in recent years in the UK. All were constructed principally to provide for indoor net practice out of season. Such specialist halls are expensive to build and, without alternative use during off-peak periods, expensive to maintain. Indoor cricket...

A multi-use games area (MUGA) can cover a wide range of facilities, from an area the size of a tennis court in a remote village or inner city area to a full-size hockey or football pitch subdivided into a multi-court centre for large netball or five-a-side football competitions. In establishing the ...

Badminton is one of the most popular racket sports in the UK and often the singly most popular sport in multi-sports halls. The publication provides information on the planning, design and management of badminton facilities in the UK. The different sections cover space and layout, floor and court...

The UK Sports Council's Training of Young Athletes (TOYA) is a long term survey designed to look at the effects of intensive training on a sample of highly trained young athletes. The aim of the study is to establish the positive and negative effects of intensive training within four sports:...

The UK Sports Council commissioned the TOYA study to increase understanding of the physical and psychological pressures faced by the elite young athlete. The study is equally concerned with the positive as with the negative outcomes from a lifestyle committed to sporting performance. In recent...

The report emphasizes that without a detailed consideration of the up-to-date details of the social, economic and demographic characteristics of the area immediately surrounding a proposed facility, and without knowledge of the current levels of sporting participation within such an area, any...

The first of three sections in this report details the policy aim and objectives of the UK Sports Council towards the development of sporting opportunities for women. The aim is to increase the involvement of women in sport at all levels and in all roles and to recognize that sport needs women just ...