Explain the value of sport in the UK. How does sport build a safer, stronger community?

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Dermot mc veigh

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How does sport build a safer, stronger community?

Sport helps to build a safer and stronger community by trying to get the children and teenagers off the streets by organising sporting events such as midnight soccer leagues throughout the week and weekends. Young people will enter a team into this league and compete against teams from their own community and other communities throughout the week and weekends. In my own community the midnight soccer league is a cross-community venture. This helps to build a stronger safer community because members of the Catholic and Protestant communities are getting along and enjoying themselves. My community also has a lot of GAA clubs which also take young people off the streets and gives them a chance to make a name for themselves in the GAA. It also gives them something to focus on and something to look forward to. The GAA is a voluntary organisation, so the men and women that are coaching and managing the young people are all doing so out of sheer enjoyment and love of the sport. The GAA and the midnight soccer scheme helps to take young people of the streets were they are likely to end up involved in anti-social behaviour. As a keen sportsman myself I know that achieving success in sport is a huge morale boost and you thrive on that success and want to keep winning, I personally think that the will to improve and win has kept me from engaging in anti-social behaviour. Most of the friends I have in sport are not involved in anti-social behaviour because they too have the will to improve and succeed. When you see yourself or your team in the media for all the right reasons such as winning you gain respect from other people and I think that this encourages young people in your community or school to want too achieve the same success if not more. This helps to build a stronger and safer community, but these young people are watching and learning how you and your team conduct themselves outside of sport as well as in sport.

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Strengthens the economy

Sport can have a major effect on the economy of any country if it holds a major sporting event. London has been chosen to host the 2012 Olympic Games and the economy will gain major benefits from these games. The money that the economy will be receiving is that of the tourists that will be attending the games and spending money on transport, food, souvenirs and the entrance fees into the games. The economy will also be boosted by the amount of jobs created before and during the games. Sport in the UK also helps ...

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