This yr’s Sustainable Golf Week is happening between 11 and 15 November and once more supplies an opportunity for folks and organisations throughout the game to have fun the nice that golf does in society.
This time, the week spotlights one other key side of golf’s duty and its worth in sustainable growth, focussing on how golf serves, helps and strengthens communities.
With earlier editions exploring different precedence matters similar to local weather (#DrivingNetZero) and nature (#BetterwithNature), for 2024 the emphasis is on #GolfforCommunities.
Jonathan Smith, Govt Director of GEO Sustainable Golf Basis – the worldwide non-profit that helps facilitate and coordinate the week stated: “Golf is not only a recreation. It’s a sector with the ability to make an actual distinction in folks’s lives. Serving and supporting folks from a large variety of ages, backgrounds, and cultures in all kinds of the way – which can be typically not nicely recognised. On the subject of sustainability, the place fairness is a central pillar, it’s not solely about saving the planet, it’s about giving everybody a good shot. And as a lot as golf offers folks entry to wholesome existence in recent air and nature, there’s nonetheless open house for the game to learn extra folks in additional methods.”
Alan Grant, Director of Partnerships on the Basis added: “Sustainable Golf Week is a time to have fun, and in addition to cease and take into consideration how golf can go even additional to construct fairer, greener communities – not simply on the course, however in cities and cities in all places. It’s about taking large swings for a greater world!
“We invite everybody, regardless of how massive or small they suppose their contribution, to share tales and concepts about golf’s relationship with numerous communities around the globe.
“To supply views on the sport’s strengths and weaknesses round such key matters, and to assist encourage and information the subsequent key steps we are able to all take to maximise the game’s constructive affect.
“The extra all of us share, the extra the world will know golf cares, and the extra concepts and inspiration might be supplied to others.”
Through the week content material will cowl a raft of the way golf can and already does, contribute to society, together with contact factors on:
Lifelong well being, wellbeing and social interplay
Employment, funding and expert careers
Volunteering and lifelong schooling
Neighborhood outreach and charitable initiatives
Multi-functional use of land
Native environmental safety, nature restoration and nature-based options
Affect in low carbon, nature wealthy and round economies; and
Golf as a supply of inspiration for billions of individuals.
Getting concerned:
You will discover out extra in regards to the agenda for the week and entry the Sustainable Golf Week Toolkit HERE.
Please use the graphics, hashtags and handles to share and have fun your individual achievements, commitments and views.
@sustainablegolf
#golforcommunities
#sustainablegolf
#sustainablecommunities
