May 2 days 13 hours 53 minutes not stand resume prospect in about one of Comprehensive Community Sports Club 4 minutes
Under the influence of the spread of the new coronavirus, many of the "Comprehensive Community Sports Club" that is a base for local residents to enjoy the sport is forced to activities discontinued, the club of about one-fourth of standing is also the prospect of the resumption I found that not.
The comprehensive community sports club is a sports club that is run voluntarily by local residents so that they can enjoy various sports from children to the elderly.
When the Japan Sports Club Association, which is affiliated with clubs all over the country, conducted an urgent questionnaire about the activity status from the 5th to the 10th of last month, 67% of the 243 clubs that responded were active due to the new coronavirus. It was canceled completely.
With some cancellations, 95% of clubs are forced to reduce their activities, which affects the income of membership fees.
Nearly 40% of clubs had already lost more than 1 million yen, and 5% were over 13%.
Regarding future management, 55% were "continue as usual" and 11% were "continue after reducing the scale", while 24% said "no prospect of continuation or resumption" and "undecided" With 10%, the reality that the future of the club is not visible is highlighted.
According to Haruo Nogawa, President of the Japan Sports Club Association, who surveyed said, "The current situation should be even more severe than when we took the questionnaire. The sports fields in the regions that we have worked hard up to this point could collapse. The lack of clubs has a direct bearing on the health of older people who have no other place to exercise, and we must take immediate action. ”
Painful situation where membership fee is lost
Most of the comprehensive community sports clubs use the gymnasiums of elementary and junior high schools, so the government requested that the elementary and junior high schools be closed in March, and had to stop the activities.
Pivotfoot, a comprehensive community sports club in Ota-ku, Tokyo, has 40 classrooms such as basketball, tennis, and running using the gymnasium and playground of a local elementary school, and has more than 600 members. Have canceled all classrooms.
For members, we are distributing videos of exercises that can be done at home on the Internet, but we are still unable to earn membership fees of more than 3 million yen a month.
The club is concerned that children and the elderly, who have lost their exercise habits when they restart as the business situation deteriorates, will leave sports.
Kenhide Kuwata, the president of the club, said, "I'm thinking of collecting the benefits for small and medium-sized enterprises and financing of banks, but I think that the declaration of emergency situation will be extended, and if more classrooms will not continue. It's very painful. "
The situation is even more acute for clubs based in a town in the Kinki region.
This club has about 760 members and receives about 17 million yen annually as a membership fee and tuition fee, but since March most of the classrooms are closed and there is no membership fee income.
I don't think I'll get a loan because I can't repay it, so I don't know if I can continue to manage.
The person in charge of the club said, "We would like to manage the labor cost by cutting it down, but if we restart it forcibly, we may have to give up management in the middle of the year. I have to decide whether or not to restart it. "