Review of the Registered Clubs Industry in NSW - Clubs NSW

E IPART’s methodology for recording and valuing clubs’
social contribution
Recognition of volunteer hours
ACG also collected information on the total number of volunteer hours for each of
the clubs surveyed. IPART included an allowance for these hours in the total social
contribution value.
As discussed in Chapter 4, IPART’s approach to valuing direct in-kind contributions
implicitly incorporates a value for the volunteer time associated with the provision of
certain club facilities. For example, a club may make use of volunteers in the
maintenance and upkeep of its golf course. As a result of this volunteer involvement,
the club can reduce its green keeping expenses and is then able to charge a lower sale
price than would otherwise be required if commercial labour were used. Hence, only
volunteer time that is not spent on the provision of facilities already valued through
the market value-based approach should be included.
Thus the volunteer time associated with sporting and trading activities of clubs are
accounted for in the direct in-kind component of the approach and should not be
included here. The value of volunteer labour from directors and volunteers involved
in other activities of clubs is included.
E.2 An estimate of the clubs industry’s social contribution
Based on the above methodology, IPART estimated the following range for the value
of the registered clubs industry’s social contribution.
Table E.4 Value of social contribution ($ million)
Industry values Low Mid High
Direct cash contributions 91 91 91
Direct in-kind contributions
Market value of facilities 764 1,244 1,724
Less revenue received by clubs for their facilities 568 568 568
Volunteer hours 44 44 44
Total value of social contribution 331 811 1,291
Note: Rows may not add due to rounding.
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