BASIS Consultation

The role of Sport in Building Back Better

Rockvolt are proud to be involved with BASIS, with Peter Watts an active Board Member. As part of the organisation’s contribution to the Build Back Better movement a consultation document will be presented, which needs your input…

BASIS Consultation: The Role of Sport in Building Back Better – be part of the conversation.

The British Association for Sustainable Sport is seeking your views on the role of sport in building back better from COVID-19.

To fill out the survey, please follow the link to our website and click on ‘Take The Survey’ – https://basis.org.uk/build-back-better

Hear our Chief Executive, Russell Seymour, launch the consultation on BBC Sportsday here: https://basis.org.uk/media

COVID-19 continues to be a huge challenge, but our webinars and discussions with members throughout lockdown have unearthed a strong desire for sport to do things differently and become more sustainable.

Underpinning this is a recognition that climate change, biodiversity loss, water shortages and extreme weather are even broader, harsher challenges than COVID-19.  They are challenges from which we cannot self-isolate.  They are looming risks and sport needs to address them – sport is exposed to these problems and contributes to them.

We also recognise the power of sport to make a difference.  Sport contributes £39bn to the UK economy. This gives sport a meaningful stake in the UK economy.  And the cultural power of sport – exemplified by the likes of Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling in the last days and weeks – can be a real force in helping to shape what comes next.

The BASIS consultation seeks views from across the UK sports community about what contribution sport can make to a resilient, environmentally sustainable recovery from COVID-19, and what sport needs from the government, and other agencies, to enable the sector’s best contribution.

Responses to the questions will inform a White Paper, to be developed by BASIS and published in the summer of 2020. The White Paper will outline an ambitious pathway for sport in the UK to become a world leader in sustainability, and underpin the assistance BASIS will offer across the sporting landscape to help facilitate a clean, green, secure and prosperous future.

We would really value your input – and please feel free to share it with anyone you think will be interested.   To fill out the survey, please follow the link  – https://basis.org.uk/build-back-better