22 Mar 2011

Guess the weight of red tape

Guess the weight of red tape news article image

As part of the Sport and Recreation Alliance’s launch of Red Card to Red Tape – How sports clubs want to break free from bureaucracy, we assembled a stack of forms and guidance which a sports club would typically have to complete over the course of a year, to illustrate the scale of bureaucracy facing sports clubs.
 
Attendees were invited to guess the weight of the pile of forms, which weighed in at a hefty 3.48kg, with the prize for the person with the closest guess being a £250 donation to a sports club in their constituency. The results of the competition were as follows:
 
1st place - Ian Austin MP
2nd place - Heather Wheeler MP
3rd place - Mark Pawsey MP
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