The Provision of Sport. Sport in the UK is structured in the three following ways; The Voluntary sector, the Public Sector and the Private sector.

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The Provision of Sport in the UK today.

In modern times sport is a global phenomenon. Everyone can have some form of access to it and sport provides many with jobs and also provides jobs and hobbies for people worldwide.

 In Britain today the scale of the sports industry is massive. Everyone can have some impact on it at some level whether this is playing for a local team, paying to go and watch your favourite club or even by simply watching sports at home. According to the following source () the sports industry provides 621,000 people with jobs at the moment and these jobs range from coaching and physiotherapists to teachers and the media. The sports industry employs 2% of all UK workers. In the UK, sport generates £12000 million a year; 2% of the National Economy. Many people often play sports regularly; a survey by “Sports England” revealed that 6.82 million play sport at least three times a week. These stats show how important sport is to the UK public and also the scale of it in Great Britain.

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  Sport in the UK is structured in the three following ways; The Voluntary sector, the Public Sector and the Private sector. The voluntary sector includes people who play for a local club team or anyone who plays their chosen sport voluntarily without getting paid. Other examples of this are youth groups as often at such groups sports may be played and the people who have volunteered their time to organise these groups are part of the voluntary sector, as well as those who turn up to these groups and participate in these sports. The public sector involves agencies who ...

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