Sports Strategies

Strategy, or planning for the long term, will help enable your organisation move forward and achieve success. We believe that successful leisure strategies are realistic, time limited, achievable and owned by the people who will be responsible for their delivery. Often strategies are "left on the shelf", but we can help you ensure that the necessary outcomes are actually delivered as well as recommending what they should be.

Our most recent assignments...

• We were retained by the London Borough of Croydon to help prepare an overall Sports Development Strategy and specific Action Plans for 14 target sports including Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Judo, Netball, Lacrosse, Lawn Tennis, Rugby, Swimming and Table Tennis.
  
  
• Middlesex University retained Bayer Consulting to assist in the preparation of a Sports Strategy
  
  
• We prepared and implemented a Youth and Coaching Development Strategy for the Amateur Football Alliance, an organisation that represents 350 football clubs in London, the South of England and the Midlands.
  
  
• As part of the preparation of a Cultural Strategy, Croydon Council retained Bayer Consulting to seek the views of a wide range of stakeholders inside and outside the borough, by using focus groups, telephone research and face to face interviews.
  
  
• Swale District Council in Kent retained us to prepare their Cultural Strategy.
  
  
• In addtion, prior to the preparation of a Cultural Strategy, Swale District Council in Kent engaged Bayer Consulting to undertake widespread public consultation. In partnership with Foster Brown Associates we arranged an innovative programme of events and interviewed over 3,000 residents and visitors and over 50 local community groups.
  
  
• As part of the Best Value review of their Library Service, Bayer Consulting were retained by Croydon Council to determine the views of users and non-users of libraries across the borough. Research techniques included focus groups, telephone interviews and face to face interviews at a representative selection of the Council's public libraries.