Advisory
Sporting Assets provides an extensive range of services to public, private, and charitable organisations across the sport, leisure, and physical activity sectors.
We help to deliver greater resilience and impact at scale through specialist advice and practical solutions, underpinned by our team’s unique, broad range of specialisms and in depth understanding of enterprise development, facility development, finance, and impact investing. We understand the challenges faced and provide insight and knowledge to help clients meet these.
How we work
Our aim is to build long term relationships with our clients - taking an idea or opportunity from concept to delivery.
Strategic Development
For sector bodies, we provide strategic guidance and support to develop tools, strategies, and resources to help them and their networks develop, diversify income, and improve sustainability.
Strategic developmentEnterprise and Facility Development
We provide a comprehensive package of enterprise and facility development services to support impactful projects and organisations, for both at scale programmes and individual projects.
Facility developmentOur experienced advisory team work closely with our investment team, enabling us to bring investment experience, knowledge, opportunities and insight to our clients and projects.
Strategic Development
We work in partnership with a range of sector bodies including Sport England, National Governing Bodies, Active Partnerships, Local Authorities (local and national government) and large infrastructure charities such as The Football Foundation and London Marathon Foundation.
Our support has included:
- Design and development of capacity building programmes to support a network of clubs and organisations.
- Developing tools and resources to support such programmes including:
- Sport specific club health check “diagnostic tools” and supporting toolkits to help review organisational capacity and capability and create focused development plans.
- Workshops and peer networking and learning events.
- One to one support and guidance for a cohort of clubs.
- Developing innovative facility model initiatives to help network clubs secure greater access to facilities, enhancing participation, financial sustainability, and impact.
- Working with a network of clubs to review joint needs, strategic opportunities, and ways of improving partnerships.
- Strategic facility reviews to assess need, operational and financial performance, income generation opportunities and how to enhance impact.
Enterprise and Facility Development
Our experienced and passionate team provide a range of services to clients to help them develop and unlock opportunities. We’ve helped organisations develop their capability and capacity, which enables them to develop new or existing facilities, deliver new activities or services, or improve what they currently do to be more resilient and impactful.
Services include:
- Market research and needs analysis.
- Community and Stakeholder engagement.
- Feasibility studies and business case review.
- Business planning and financial forecasting.
- Management and operational reviews.
- Governance support including guidance on legal and governance structures.
- Funding and investment readiness development.
- Funding applications and investment.
Our sports and enterprise advisory expertise is supplemented by unique insights and networks in funding, impact investment, community asset transfer and community asset development.
Facility development projects
Funding Opportunity - The Reach Fund
Sporting Assets, is an Access Point for the REACH fund, a grant programme for capacity building fund for charities and social enterprises seeking to secure social investment or crowdfunding.
Grants are available to eligible organisations close to raising repayable finance that have development or capacity building needs to address before they secure finance. The average grant is between £5,000 and £15,000. Support is available for a variety of needs such as business or investment planning, governance and market testing.
If you are interested in this grant funding contact Tom Hall via Contact us.
A very thorough piece of work, consulting with a wide range of stakeholders. Their recommendations gave us a clear plan of action, which we started to implement straight away
Phillipa
Bonny Downs Community Association
“We really enjoyed working with Sporting Assets and felt they brought insights from their work on other projects. It was particularly helpful to have them involved in the focused discussion with individual clubs, where they could ensure a common approach to them all and to the follow up actions.”
England Athletics
Sporting Assets played an instrumental role in helping prepare the plans and bidding process to take over the ground, as well as helping design a business plan and find major funding to carry out essential renovations. They’ve helped make something amazing happen!
Lambeth Tigers FC
Sporting Assets gave us energy, ideas and expertise, our game changing 3G pitch is a direct result of their support.
Lewes Community Football Club
Our work was informed by local analysis, and our own stakeholder and community engagement, providing BMDC with a robust model for a sustainable and impactful community sports hub and viable options for the operational management of the site.
Wyke Community Sports Village