What are the benefits of sports facilities?

Why purpose-built sports facilities are important in creating strong & healthy communities

Sport facilities, especially those found in schools, are extremely important – not only to the school children using them daily – but also to the communities surrounding them; providing purpose-built spaces and accessible sports equipment to local groups and clubs with a health, fitness and/or sports focus. So, what are the benefits of sports facilities in schools and why are sports facilities important, particularly in creating strong and healthy communities? 

What are the benefits of sports facilities? 

Family friendly: Sports facilities within schools – such as football pitches, sports halls and gym equipment – by their very nature, tend to be extremely family friendly; created to accommodate children & young adults, and designed with flexibility in mind – providing spaces for a multitude of outdoor and indoor sports. What this means for external sports & fitness clubs coming into these spaces is that you can cater for a range of ages and abilities; even able to offer family classes and sessions where appropriate. 

Ease of access: When we talk of ‘access’ and ‘ease of access’, we’re not only talking about accessibility, but we’re also talking about how easy it is for members of the local community to find and attend sports clubs and fitness groups offered from sports facilities within schools. Schools are typically extremely well-known within their local area – by families, businesses and individuals alike, often due to attendance or employment by family members, partnerships with local businesses, or reputation. Ease of access is especially valuable to sports & fitness clubs as confidence and familiarity of a venue leads to higher attendance rates. 

Easily accommodate large groups: Schools are designed to accommodate classes averaging 30 children and total numbers of 100 – 250+ children, depending on the communities they serve. This means that, by their design, schools and their sports facilities can easily accommodate large groups; whether large scale martial arts classes, football sessions or aerobics classes; enabling sports & fitness clubs hiring these spaces to book even more people onto your classes and sessions!

Versatile: Something we mentioned within an earlier point, school sports facilities are also designed to be versatile; a sports hall, for example, suitable for use as a gymnasium, indoor netball pitch, dodgeball pitch or other large scale sports. This means that sports clubs and fitness groups coming in are relatively free to offer a variety of different classes and activities, benefiting a wide range of people.

Developing core skills: It’s also important to note that children will develop and improve their core skills training and playing on better surfaces. What we mean by this is that if children were to train on a court, pitch or hall that is good quality they are likely to progress quicker, either in a PE lesson or external/extra curricular group that is hired out by the local community.

In short, the benefits of school sports facilities are vast, not only for the school children using them every day, but for the local communities surrounding them. 

Easy access to versatile, family friendly, large sports facilities provides members of local communities with affordable, accessible health & fitness opportunities; keeping the local communities schools, fitness groups and sports clubs serve healthy, active and energised. 

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