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- Planning is the cornerstone of any well-run community recreation program. If you fail to plan you plan to fail. Proper planning prevents poor performance and is extremely important in coordinating any high-level program. While planning can come in many forms, most all are open and customizable to how you want to operate.
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- Step 1: Engaging Your Community
- Step 2: Assessing Political Will
- Step 3: Examining Your Current Recreation Center Assets and Determining Needs
- Step 4: Creating A Plan
- Step 4: Seek Funding
- Step 5: Implement Plan
A recreation center can’t succeed without a vision and that vision should come from the people who will benefit most. The members of your community must have a central role in the recreation planning process. Conversations both online (via surveys and social media) and in-person (via town halls) should pose questions about the level of satisfaction...
Beyond engaging your community, receiving buy-in from local elected officials is a key piece of recreation planning. Plans for optimizing recreation assets may be sound, backed by data, and in the interest of the community, but unless it’s supported by key decision makers that can gather the resources necessary to implement it, the plan will likely...
As communities evolve, so should the facilities that serve them. For example, if there’s an influx of families moving to your community, it’s critical that your recreation center is built to enhance their lives. While providing programming such as summer camps and fitness classes are important, providing tech amenities such as free Wi-Fi and physic...
The synthesis of the input you’ve received from the community and stakeholders are the goals. The current state of your recreation assets are the baselines. In between lies a gap that your recreation plan will fill. A number of components must be considered during this process, including the overall scope and concept for new or renovated facilities...
If your recreation center planning involves the construction of a new facility or the renovation of a current one, funding will be required. When working with SFA, we conduct both a market opportunity report and a feasibility study to help determine the financial viability of your recreation center concept. This includes a Pro Forma, which provides...
A key part of implementing your recreation plan is building a team to complete the project and understanding their roles. From there, a timeline is built with milestones that allow you to assess progress within the project. Recreation centers can be a tremendous asset to your community. To unlock its potential, planning is needed. To learn more abo...
Community Leisure and Recreation Planning offers an up-to-date, evidence-based approach to planning community leisure and recreation facilities,programs and services. It introduces readers to key theory and best practice in the planning of effective leisure and recreation projects.
Guidance on planning applications that impact on sporting provision, detail on our playing fields policy, and the 12 planning for sport principles.
Oct 29, 2020 · Each community must determine its own standards, level-of-service (LOS) metrics, and long-range vision for its parks and recreation system based on community issues, values, needs, priorities and available resources.
From figuring out what assessments to use to what interventions to implement, it can be hard to decide where to start. But no worries. In this post, I’ll share with you how to prioritize and build your program in just five easy steps using the APIED Process.
Program-planning skills develop over time. The more you do it, the better you get at it. It all starts with learning how to use a step-by-step process to design, organize, administer and evaluate quality, meaningful recreation and leisure activities.
