CHANGES IN THE OPERATING HABITS OF SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS

One city had identified a need to change the operating habits of sports associations that regularly receive municipal subsidies and wished to organise an information session on the legal and financial framework of the Multiannual Objectives Agreement (MAO). Indeed, sport in associative industry is a vector of socialization and education and requires monitoring and support.

Abington's support

We have elaborated a presentation and training kit with three parts:

• Raising awareness of legal issues: The legal systems defining the terms of the relationship between the public authority and the association are dominated by a confusion of legal qualifications which call for an unambiguous contractual formalisation that allows a clear distinction to be made between a relationship without consideration and a service provided to the public authority.

• Financial and operational consequences: The practical financial conditions to be met for an association structure to be eligible for a subsidy: "The amount of the subsidy must only compensate for the costs incurred by the association for the performance of a Service of General Economic Interest, taking into account the revenue it generates and a reasonable profit. »

• Questions / Answers

We have also carried out an accompaniment to the annual evaluation of the activities of the associations allowing to exercise an optimal control in order to:

• Ensure the proper management of an association and its activities (sports activities, costs, income, organization, staff, compliance, risk management, etc.)

• Provide the City with all the elements to have a precise vision of the reality of the association supported