similarities

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Government grants pub / vol why? Member loan - private why? Non government grant - pub / vol - why? Financial instruction loan private ? Member subscription priv/ vol why? Private investment vol/private Lottery funding vol yes , private no , public maybe. Donations - vol

Funding We are focussing on the similarities and differences between three sporting organisation types, these three types are public, private and volunteer organisations. Within these organisations come eight sub-categories. Government grants Non- government grant Member subscriptions Private investment Lottery funding Member loan Financial institution Donations

These eight sub categories are the differences and similarities I will be focussing on in the essay. The first similarity that I have found are that government grants are offered to public and volunteer organisations, although these organisations do not always choose to accept them, the reason these two will be offered them is because the government will focus on trying to offer sporting development and sport growth in grass roots organisations, the government will also wish to improve youth development. Both public and volunteer are non profit organisations so therefore they will find it hard to contribute to their own organisation with their own money, the only money they could use that they have already is money the owner of the organisation has worked to earn themselves before the organisation has started. The reason private organisations do not receive funds from the government is simply because the government know that private organisations can make their own money and get hold of their own funds. Ive looked into Sport England which is a public organisation that would be offered a government grant; an example of a volunteer club that would receive or be offered funds is combe down RFc.

The second similarity that I have found within the three organisations is to do with non government grants, a non government grant is where an organisation gets money but isnt expected to pay it back, the main, prime example of this would be the health lottery who give money to public and volunteer organisations. Again with this example, volunteer and public organisations do not have to take up the offer of the non government organisations money, so they can decline if they want to, the reason these two are offered money from the non government organisation is because they apply to put it into their own non profit organisations. The reason private organisations do not receive money from the lottery or apply to the lottery is because their organisations make profits, so they would be declined money unless they are expected to pay it back, which would work the same way as a loan. The reason people apply for the money from the Health lottery is so they can put it into improvements of facilities, increase participation, and progress further with grass roots projects and organisations. My first example of a public organisation in this circumstance is sport England and the example of a volunteer organisation in this circumstance would be lark hall fc.

Membership subscriptions are for private and volunteer organisations only, the reason for this being some volunteer clubs or organisations will make you pay a deposit or a fee to play sport for their club or team, where as within the industry of private organisations you always have to pay a fee to play or be a part of the organisation because thats how they make half of their money, although in fairness the quality and standard of a private investment is supposed to be that of a superb calibre. Public organisations would not receive membership subscriptions because you quite often dont have to become a paying member of a public club or team because you should always get a free membership. The reason membership subscriptions are within volunteer organisations is so that they can make some money to put back into the club and spend on new facility structures to be built or organised, they also would be put into player participation efforts, so the money they make from subscriptions would pretty much always go back into the organisation. where as when membership subscriptions are being paid within a private company the money will always go to people within the club who are at the top of the ladder or who have a job their, so for example the money paid by the people subscribing to become part of the club would become somebody elses wages. one particular example of this would be royal Worcester golf club, youd quite often find that golf clubs are privately subscribed to.

Private investment is another one of the eight sub categories we were working on within the three organisations, the two organisations that have the similarity in this category are both public and volunteer, as you mightve guessed seeing as the clue is within their names, they do not consist of private investments. Where as private organisations are the ones who have private investments again stated quite obviously within their name, the sort of private investment i am referring to is that of perhaps a rugby or football club that has a single investor, for example Leeds FC have Ken Bates as their private investor. Who bought the club for 1 pound and 13 pence off of himself, and cleared all the debts within the club of over 30 million, with mostly his own money. What a private investment means is when somebody who is playing or working in a club puts their own money into the club; this would only work with private organisations.

Lottery funding, lottery funding is given to both public and volunteer organisations because they are both non profit organisations which means that the national lottery dont mind giving them money as long as it is put into projects within a volunteer or public organisation so building a new youth centre or building new facilities or even improving old ones for that matter, so as long as its used by the organisation in a non profitable circumstance then they are more than welcome to apply to the lottery,. Although they cant continuously apply week after week because thatd be abusing their rights and abusing the etiquette, or in simpler terms the unwritten rule, if people applied every week then they would not receive funds every week and probably be frowned upon by the lottery funding committee. Private organisations can not apply for lottery funding simply because they could make a profit off of the money thatd be given to them, so therefore they have to raise their own money if they want to make improvements within their organisations. a particular organisation thatd get lottery funding would be Sport England.

Member loan, a member loan is where a member of an organisation puts money into their organisation but expects it back somewhere along the line, hence it being a loan; it only really happens within private organisations because they are the only organisation who make their own money and keep it all, where as public and volunteer are both non profit organisations so therefore cannot have a member loan because there are no members who are as rich as the ones in a private organisation. A prime example of a sports club which would deal in member loans would be a yacht club.

Financial institution loan is also known as a bank loan. These would only go to the private sector of the three organisations because private are the only part of the sector who can pay the money or the loan back to the bank, so the banks are not allowed to give money to volunteer or public organisations cause they would have absolutely no way to pay it back to the financial institution. Manchester united would be a fine example of borrowing money from a bank, because the glazer family have run them into the ground, so therefore last week they had to borrow money from the bank.

Donations are made by charities the majority of the time, although they can be made by the public sector or small groups or trustee foundations of people and chairmen and men/women of importance, they are usually offered by charities to volunteer organisations as they have the least money and cannot offer as many resources so the more help they get the better it is for the organisation, a prime example of the charity would be Oxfam. Private organisations do not receive donations, again because they are a profitable organisation and they dont need donations.

The second half of my essay is laid out in a similar structure, this time there are seven sub categories: Sporting organisations Sports each organisation is associated with Organisational aims Target groups Standards of facilities and services Pricing structure Extent of partnership with other sectors

So I begin again with the similarities that i have noticed within the organisations, but this time similarities i have noticed within the organisations themselves. so for example, public organisations are run by people who are experienced in a

field that they choose to work in, and it is the same within volunteer organisations, because they are both quite similar organisations when you get right down to the bone of it all, and both sets of organisations do thing for the public and do it for kids to either have fun or do something whilst their parents are working or for kids to have good leisure and recreational time, and i would assume it offers a certain level of education, although this is more so volunteer than public organisations. One of the highlights of the two organisations is that un-like private organisations, these two are non profit and very rarely ask for money from its members, and when they do ask for money they usually pump it back into the system anyway. yet another similarity between the two is that they both receive funds either from the government and from the national lottery and the health lottery and all sorts of different industries within the sporting world, these are all given to public and volunteer organisations because they wont make any profit out of them, hence them not being given to private organisations. With private organisations if they want money they either have to use the money of the chairmen or board of the club/committee or the other option would be to take out an institution loan, which is also known as a bank loan. The sports that are associated with public organisations are pretty much any; you can literally play any sport as long as you have the rules, the equipment, the officials and the teams /enough people to play it, this is the same with volunteer because you can use the same sports and everything as public, some public organisations may even donate used equipment to the volunteer organisations, as for private well they can do any sport too, but they pay for their equipment and things with their own money, usually the sport that is associated most with private organisations I would say is golf. Organisational aims: Organisational aims for a public organisation would be to offer as much support as they can, set up local clubs that people can join, linked with things like perhaps Olympic values, or sporting values. Public organisations can also link it into education, they could try and do educational themed sports within their organisations, they can offer facilities to younger people or the younger generation, and set up things like ball courts or badminton courts, or perhaps an inside arena for all types of sport. Volunteer organisations aims would be to give people, mostly kids and teens, as much of a sporting opportunity as they can ,because if there are people from a rough area or a rough background, sport would perhaps keep some people from doing crime and keep them off of the streets, and because everything would be free, maybe they could get some sort of payment by getting the participants there to do the best they can in school, so they could link grades to sport, meaning they have to get maybe a C or above in school to be allowed to play the

sport or something like that. Organisational aims for private organisations would be to offer as much quality as they can to their members, although this would probably cost quite a lot of money, especially compared to the other two organisations who dont ask for a penny unless its a refundable deposit. private organisations would be expected to offer the best quality simply because they are the ones with the most money and disposable income available, and the best bit about it for them, is that they can pull out all the stops by spending a lot of money and they make more money back than they have spent, thats where the money comes in and they receive profit within the industry. Target groups: Target groups for all three of the organisations could be young, middle aged, and senior people. For public organisations the target groups would again be any of the three age categories above, but they would also look for people of the lower class, because they do not have as much money as people within private organisations. Public organisations may also look for people who are un-employed or who have spare time on their hands so it gives them something to do, keeps them fit and helps them keep a healthy mental state and good frame of mind, as much as anything it could create social opportunities. Volunteer organisations would be more or less the same, but would perhaps aim it more at people who are aged under 20 because if they are not in school or have spare time after school where there parents are at work, then playing sport is a very good way to keep yourself occupied, particularly if you go with friends because then you will feel better about joining, and then once you have joined and gotten used to the system you could encourage others to join, another promising outcome of a volunteer organisations aims would be that you can enter competitions that private organisations enter, so for example if you did football, you may enter a competition against a private organisation and although you have spent less money, you may come out much better than them. For private organisations, again the target groups would be similar, but it probably wouldnt be as many adolescents, simply because they dont have much money when youre aged 16 or under, where as when you are middle agedsenior, you may have more money, and if you are retired you may want to keep fit and you probably have spare time on your hands. I would say private organisations are more for the upper class than the middle class because it is targeting people with more money. Standards of facilities and services: in a public organisation the standards of facilities and services would be expected to be relatively good, because public organisations are committees like Sport England, who would usually set up

opportunities and facilities for people who dont have much money but arent too poor to pay a re-fundable deposit, so you would expect relatively high quality standards because they get money from the health lottery and national lottery towards helping areas without any sporting facilities, the services provided would be good, because it is under government influence, they would expected to be medium-high standard services, and there would always be staff there willing to help with a smile on their face. You would expect changing rooms amongst the facilities and perhaps an inside and an outside sporting facility on the same base. Volunteer organisations you would expect lesser quality of the facilities and services, but Im sure they wouldnt be grim, theyd most likely be bog standard facilities, so for instance if were talking about a ball court itd probably be like something along the lines of : walls to cover the area, perhaps a roof depending on whether it is in or outside, one or two people officiating and looking after the people there, lighting of some sort, and refreshments would/should be offered. Again they receive help from the lottery, so this would come to good use within this organisation. Within private organisations the facilities you get would probably be the best around, because again they have more money and are making a profit from it, so they would rent out their facilities for a much higher price than public organisations, but by the same token they would expect people with a much higher income, so it fits the description of the organisation perfectly. The facilities would also be much bigger than others, theyd have more changing rooms, toilets, playing facilities etc. than anywhere else. services offered would expected to better best, bit that doesnt necessarily mean they would be, because they are being paid a lot of money to do what they do, so they should be the best but that isnt always the case, sometimes people who are worse off are the nicer because the people they are helping are experiencing the same situation, although saying this private organisations will have private members so theyd be treated the same , its more of a stereotype that private clubs are snobby . Pricing structure: the pricing structure for public organisations would be well, usually wouldnt be too much if anything because they are backed up by the lottery, but they are also government influenced so they would want some money from somewhere, most likely the renting out of facilities. The pricing structure of Volunteer organisations would be extremely low, because they wouldnt actually charge for anything, theyd maybe ask for a refundable deposit for something but because they are also backed by the lottery

and are a non-profit organisation, the key word being non-profit, theyd make no income that they wouldnt return to their customers. The pricing structure of private organisations would probably be high, seeing as they are the ones who charge for anything and everything within the three organisations, but they are also the only ones who dont get help from the lottery or government, so they have to make their money in one way or another.

Extent or partnership with other organisations: For public organisations the extent of the partnership between the voluntary sector of the industry will be more than that of the private part of the industry, but even then wont be that high. The main use of the affiliation they have will be too say that they perhaps have helped a particular voluntary organisation, and perhaps made them look good, and helped them out in a facilitated way or something. There will be no link between a public organisation and a private organisation. The link between voluntary and public organisations perhaps means that volunteer organisations can get some equipment and kit that is pre-owned and dis-used by a public organisation, it also perhaps means that they can be taken under the wing of a public organisation and become affiliates for particular competitions or leagues; a public organisation may even sponsor a voluntary one. They have no link with private organisations either. Private organisations have no links with either public or voluntary organisations.