National sports turf guidance for immediate and long term facility survival

STRI正在为受英国COVID-19大流行影响的体育、公园和娱乐企业的所有部门提供全额资助的商业支持。STRI是可持续体育管理、研究、运营、规划/设计和行业解决方案提供商的全球领导者。2019冠状病毒病大流行给体育俱乐部的管理带来了明显和现实的风险，特别是对于管理足球、高尔夫球场、橄榄球、板球和保龄球等自然运动场地。这些运动在社会中发挥着重要作用，特别是在“草根”层面的体育和娱乐以及地方当局提供的绿色空间。除了环境和生态效益外，管理绿色空间对健康和心理健康的好处是巨大的，预计健康和福利效益超过340亿英镑，并且通过避免全科医生就诊，为NHS节省至少1.11亿英镑。这个机会由英国创新公司资助，为成功的申请者提供了一个“最佳实践”路线图，让体育设施恢复运营，以及如何最好地处理必要的变化，因为收入损失和计划外的中断需要紧急审查维护和预算资源。它还将处理在中期安全重新开放设施的可行性，并帮助创新未来的商业模式，以确保长期生存。申请人将能够使用STRI独特的TurfSync平台构建自己的交互式报告，并安排STRI集团顾问团队的远程咨询，他们将审查当前的做法，并针对设施的短期和长期健康状况提供公正的建议。除了我们对2019冠状病毒病大流行后的体育、生态、环境和商业管理进行审查外，申请人还可以寻求协助，进行调查搜索，以获得额外资金。项目扩展的附加信息建议继续进行“探路者”项目，但只专注于为英国体育设施内水资源可持续性和安全性的可行性提供建议，以改善长期财务稳定性，并为俱乐部和邻近社区带来更广泛的环境效益。STRI收到了许多关于水安全的询问，并最终提供了七个单独的定制设施水相关的“路线图”。这些路线图中的大多数都是进一步的“提供服务”（商业提案），发送给客户，以进行更详细的集水和储水方案设计工作。STRI没有预料到由于COVID-19，人们对这一主题的兴趣如此之高。然而，很明显，这场危机迫使体育设施重新评估他们的整个商业模式，以保持一个可行的业务。水在体育设施中发挥着巨大的作用，所有设施都需要水才能保持活力。水通常来自管道供应，这可能是昂贵的，并且有临时软管堵塞或长期断开的风险。其他设施从现场钻孔取水。这些都有可能导致环保局减少或取消开采许可证。近年来，这种情况发生的频率要高得多。因此，设施越来越多地寻找方法来保护他们的供水，从而保护他们的长期业务。该项目的最新成果是提供一项专门的服务，该服务将评估体育设施的长期水安全。这包括供水、水源、可持续排水，将水源解决方案与生态效益联系起来，并为周边地区提供可持续解决方案，即从邻近土地接收有问题的排水。

STRI is offering fully funded access to business support for all sectors of sportsturf, parks and recreation businesses who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. STRI is a global leader in sustainable sportsturf management, research, operation, planning/design, and a solutions provider for the industry.The COVID-19 pandemic presents a clear and present risk to the management of sports clubs, particularly for venues managing natural sportsturf surfaces such as football, golf courses, rugby, cricket and bowls. These sports provide an important role in society, especially at a 'grass roots' level of sports and recreation and local authority green space provision. The health and mental wellbeing in addition to the environmental and ecological benefit of managed green space is huge, with a predicted value of over £34 billion in health and wellbeing benefits as well as direct savings of at least £111 million to the NHS from prevented GP visits.This opportunity, funded by Innovation UK, offers successful applicants access to a 'best practice' roadmap for getting sports facilities back to business and how best to deal with necessary changes where maintenance and budget resources need urgent review due to lost income and the unplanned disruption. It will also deal with the practicalities of reopening facilities safely in the medium term and help with innovative future business models to ensure long term survival.Applicants will be able to build their own interactive report using STRI's unique TurfSync platform and schedule remote consultation from a team of STRI Group consultants who will review current practices and offer impartial advice bespoke to each situation for the short and long term health of facilities.In addition to our review of sportsturf, ecological,environmental and business management in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, applicants will be able to seek assistance with investigatory searches for additional funding.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PROJECT EXTENSIONIt is proposed to continue Project Pathfinder but focus solely on providing advice in relation to the feasibility of water sustainability and security within UK sports facilities, to improve long term financial stability and deliver wider environmental benefits to the club and adjacent communitiesDuring the delivery of Project Pathfinder, STRI received a number of enquiries regarding water security and ultimately ended up delivering seven separate bespoke facility water related ‘roadmaps’. The majority of these roadmaps resulted in further ‘offers of service’ (business proposals) sent to the clients for more detailed design work on water harvesting and storage options. STRI had not expected such a high level of interest in this subject as a result of COVID-19. However, it became apparent that the crisis had forced sports facilities to revaluate their whole business models in order to retain a viable business. Water plays a huge role for sports facilities and is required by all facilities in order to remain viable. Water is often sourced from mains supply which can be expensive, as well as carrying the risk of temporary hose pipe bans, or long-term disconnection. Other facilities source their water from on-site boreholes. These carry the risk of the Environment Agency reducing or removing abstraction licenses. This has occurred at much greater rate in recent years. Therefore, facilities are increasingly looking for ways to safeguard their water supply and thus their long-term business. The updated deliverables of the project are to offer a dedicated service which will look at the evaluating the long-term water security of sports facilities. This includes water supply, water sources, sustainable drainage, linking water source solutions to ecological benefits and sustainable solutions for surrounding areas i.e. receiving problematic drainage water from neighbouring land.