Client Badminton England
Project: Badminton National Facilities Strategy 2020
Strategy development was based upon an extensive audit of badminton facilities drawing upon current indoor and built facility needs assessments (IBFs )for a wide cross-section of local authorities. In keeping with ANOG, sports hall of 3+ courts in size were assessed to gauge number, quality and current accessibility.
Quality court supply is matched against known local club/league demand plus Active Lives Survey current and latent participation levels to create a court-hours demand based critical court index – applied to every local authority in England. This ‘badminton FPM’ (the agreed needs assessment model with Sport England) enables Badminton England to make a much stronger case for the sport by identifying and addressing:
- Demand for new prescribed quality court development where current provision is of low quality, at risk or there is an option for improvement.
- Retention of current at-risk provision.
- Upgrading/improvement of schools-based facilities with actual/potentially good quality courts in return for establishment of cast iron access arrangements.
- Partnerships between clubs/leagues and schools whereby badminton becomes the sports hall operating partner, guaranteeing a level of financial return but overseeing the programme to ensure that badminton gets its full access share.
KKP delivered the strategy, subsequent training for Badminton England staff and is advocating/implementing this process in all its IBF work.