Despite the fact that the loss in Sörmland has been greater than at the national level, RF-SISU Sörmland believes that it is too early to draw hasty conclusions.
- We know that there has been no activity, but we do not know if we have lost members.
It may still be the case that those who have chosen to stay at home for various reasons choose to come back, says Love Swartz, expert for children and youth sports at RF-SISU Sörmland.
On the contrary, some sports have increased
It may also, according to RF-SISU Sörmland, be about children and young people practicing several sports at the same time and that many have chosen to engage in the more corona-friendly sport last year.
- Football is one such example where you have been able to conduct and even expand your business, says Love Swartz.
The corona pandemic stopped the strategy of reaching more people
Despite the fact that RF-SISU Sörmland hopes that children and young people will return to sports after the corona, the pandemic has caused a lot of damage.
Among other things, it has not been possible at all to reach groups that already previously had difficulty finding association sports.
Something that they have been actively working on since 2015.
- Before the pandemic and the restrictions, we saw a slight increase and that we actually started to get somewhere in that strategy, but it has been the other way around now.
These include children and young people in socio-economically vulnerable areas and children with different types of functional variations, says Love Swartz.