Sports profile and facilities
We have focused on sports broadly for many years by offering a wide variety of activities and by spreading sports facilities widely and prominently throughout the town. Albertslund Stadion also houses a broad spectrum of facilities. However, we need to renovate our sports facilities and possibly expand some of them.
Individual, informal physical exercise is a current trend, and new forms of sport are emerging all the time.
· We will allow our sports profile to influence decisions to build new sports facilities and modernise old ones (for example, swimming pools, sports halls, spectator facilities, changing facilities, clubs and artificial grass pitches).
· We will highlight sporting activities in the community and give residents the opportunity to try many different sports.
· We will encourage more children, youth and elderly people to do sport, including those who cannot or do not want to take part in organised sports, as well as those who need specially organised sporting activities.
· We will incorporate environmental concern as a natural part of modernising and using our sports facilities.
· We will spur cooperation with the other Copenhagen West local authorities to establish and use large, common sports facilities and buildings.
Passionate commitment
Sports clubs and other associations depend heavily on the work of committed volunteers. They are the driving force and basis for the broad, varied range of activities available.
· We will support and advise volunteers in order to sustain enthusiasm and team spirit.
· We will test new partnerships and forms of collaboration between public- and private-sector organisations and associations.
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PRINCIPLES |
PLATFORM ISSUES |
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Urban quality |
Children |
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Democracy |
Culture |
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Diversity |
Environment |
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CORNERSTONES |
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Housing |
Commerce |
Finance |
Organisation |
Communication |
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KEY POLICY DOCUMENTS |
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1. Sports and adult education policy: Goals for sports, scouts, outdoor pursuits, cultural associations and adult education. |
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DID YOU KNOW that Albertslund has 106 registered associations and that 57 are sports associations? Forty-eight percent of young people under 25 are members of a sports association.
DID YOU KNOW that Albertslund Stadion houses two sports halls, six tennis courts, 20 football pitches and one cricket pitch? Albertslund also has two football complexes and many other local sports facilities.
DID YOU KNOW that Albertslund Badesøen recreation centre has an open-air swimming pool with a diameter of 60 metres plus courts for playing beach volleyball, beach ball, street basketball and boccia? And that Albertslund Riding Centre is a modern centre with 77 horses, a riding school, riding physiotherapy facilities and boarding stable?
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02. september 2009 //