Networks and partnerships in sports development

Lyndsey, I and Brown, Phil (2025) Networks and partnerships in sports development. In: Management of Sport Development. Routledge. (In Press)

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Abstract

This chapter explores the continued centrality of partnerships and networks across the sport and physical activity sector, locally, nationally and internationally. Using case studies from England, it illustrates the ways in which partnerships have evolved as both a core pillar to achieve visions expressed through public policy, the processes involved in interagency collaboration, and how partnerships operate to deliver sport development and sport-for-development objectives. We consider how partnerships remain a central organising feature in the management of sport development and how partnerships evolve in response to changing political, economic and cultural forces. Sports partnerships are increasingly collaborating with a range of wider organisations from health, education and community development in the shared pursuit of addressing wider social issues, and the external funding which is required to achieve this in the context of squeezed core budgets. Finally, the chapter encourages a degree of criticality of partnerships and points towards areas of continued research.

Item Type:	Book Section
Depositing User:	Ms Raisa Burton
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2025 14:40
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2025 14:40
URI:	https://marjon.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17936

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