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Sporting Assets supported Leeds City Council, British Cycling, Sport England and Cycle Pathways, with their ambitious plans to develop Leeds Urban Bike Park, a mountain bike centre in the heart of Leeds.

The objective of this project is to deliver high quality, progressive trails and a community space, offering something for everyone, from beginners to elite athletes.

Sporting Assets supported Cycle Pathway with the following:

• A detailed financial model to support the required investment, and to shows how the different business streams will ramp up over the next few years;
• The development of forecast usage of the park;
• Conducted an assessment of customer needs;
• Assessed the operational structure and skills on the board;
• Executed a financial management review;
• Developed an operational business plan.

Our work gave investors confidence in the viability of the project, enabling the commitment of £1.2m investment. For Cycle Pathway, our support helped them to plan how they will manage the construction phase and ramp up of operations over the next few years.

StreetGames launched in 2007 to change lives, change communities and change sport. Today, StreetGames helps over 900 community organisations across the UK to take sport to the doorstep in disadvantaged communities.

Sporting Assets worked with the team at StreetGames to look at their potential to deliver more training to the commercial sector, and what it would take to do that. This involved working closely with the StreetGames team on a project basis and in turn, talking to their customers and partners on future market potential as well as desk based research on market trends.

Sporting Assets wrote a business plan and financial model and then refined it with the StreetGames team so that everyone felt it set out the best option for the future, including on staffing and geographic focus for the project. Sporting Assets supported the executive team at the Finance Committee and Board discussions.

Lewes Community Football Club is an English football club based in Lewes, East Sussex, who play at The Dripping Pan stadium. The men’s first team are members of the Isthmian League Premier Division, and the ladies first team are members of the FA Women’s Championship.

Sporting Assets worked with Lewes CFC between 2013 and 2015 to help the club develop a business plan and secure finance for a £630,000 3G multi use sports pitch.

The full amount was raised by a blend of financing methods, including £220,000 raised by a community share offer with the subscribers receiving 30% tax relief.

Key partners who were engaged in the overall scheme were Lewes District Council, Lewes Town Council, Sussex Football Association and East Sussex County Council plus several local schools.

The 3G pitch is now operational, providing a high quality facility for the Lewes CFC teams and local sports and community groups to utilise.