Review of the Registered Clubs Industry in NSW - Clubs NSW

4 Measuring and reporting on club contributions
After considering each of the options and stakeholders’ responses, IPART found that
market value is the most appropriate approach for estimating the value of direct, inkind
provision of community and sporting facilities and infrastructure because:
it is a comparatively more reliably quantified measure (as market values and club
sale prices are more easily observed)
it does not attempt to estimate the consumer’s willingness to pay and so does not
require estimates or assumptions about the price elasticity of demand for these
facilities and infrastructure
it can identify and record a value for either an individual club’s or the clubs
industry’s aggregate in-kind provision of community and sporting facilities and
infrastructure.
4.1.2 Club volunteer labour
IPART considers it appropriate to incorporate the estimated value of volunteer
labour that contributes to the provision of club-provided social infrastructure and
services. As Chapter 3 discussed, volunteers are involved in clubs in a variety of
roles including assisting with sporting activities and bar trading, as well as acting as
directors.
IPART notes that when incorporating a value for volunteer labour, it is important to
ensure there is no ‘double counting’. IPART’s preferred approach to estimating the
value of clubs’ direct in-kind provision of community and sporting facilities and
infrastructure implicitly incorporates a value for volunteer labour involved in
providing and maintaining these facilities. Therefore, the value of this labour should
not also be included in estimating the value of club volunteer labour. However, the
estimated value of the labour provided by club directors and volunteers involved in
other club activities should be included.
4.1.3 Indirect social contributions
Indirect social contributions are much harder to identify and measure quantitatively
than direct contributions. These contributions are not the result of purposeful,
specific action by a club, but rather are an indirect outcome of the existence,
operation and activities of a club. In addition, the benefits they create are likely to be
intangible, and to be valued differently by different members of the community,
which means they are also hard to quantify with any accuracy.
Because of these difficulties, IPART considers that these contributions are best
identified and recorded through a qualitative statement that describes the nature of
the indirect social contributions a registered club makes, and the benefits the club
believes local communities derive them. IPART also considers that such qualitative
statements should be relatively easy for clubs to produce, given their knowledge of
their own activities and their local communities.
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