Presented by:

September, 2020

Impacts of COVID-19 on Local Sport Organizations

Presented to:

Newfoundland and Labrador

Richard Way CEO, Sport for Life

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Local Sports Organizations

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Return to Play

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Economic Sustainability

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Key COVID Challenges

• Risk Mitigation - Insurance

• Club Member Fear - PPE

• Differences in perception of risk

• Numbers in spaces

• Cost of play

• Travel restrictions

• Playing abroad

• Organization sustainability

Challenges and Opportunities

Key COVID Opportunities

• Re-inventing Community Sport (e.g. sports scheduling together)

• Competition Restructuring

• Innovations – open to change

• Out of the van and onto the field

• More Zoom, less gas

• Competition - re-formatting individual sport (Zoom archery?)

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Key Jurisdictional Differences

Newfoundland and Labrador

• 2x as many organizations say this is an opportunity for sport to change/adapt

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THANK YOU!