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Report Warns British Sport Is Underprepared for Climate Risks
A British Association for Sustainable Sport (BASIS) report says extreme weather is damaging facilities, disrupting fixtures, raising costs and reducing participation across British sport. Its survey found that all responding organisations experienced weather impacts in 2026, while 94% considered the sector underprepared. BASIS also identified flood exposure at professional stadiums and urged sports organisations to improve adaptation planning and risk disclosure, alongside proposing annual funding for grassroots facilities.
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The publishable master coverage brings together the report’s survey findings, stadium flood exposure, documented impacts and recommendations.
The report documents impacts and exposure across elite and grassroots sport, but the coverage describes recommendations rather than evidence that they have been adopted.
Among more than 200 surveyed clubs, venues and governing bodies, heat and drought were the most commonly reported impacts; the report also cites storm damage, flooding, fixture disruption and rising costs.
BASIS estimates that 27% of the professional stadiums it analysed in England face high direct flood risk, projected to rise to 35% under future climate scenarios. Its review also found only nine professional clubs had explicitly identified climate or extreme weather as a business risk in disclosures.
BASIS is urging sports organisations to make adaptation planning and risk disclosure a priority, and proposes a £30 million annual fund to protect grassroots facilities; the coverage does not establish that these measures have been implemented.