ABSTRACT
Community Sports Development is a form of practice that conveys a philosophy and spirit which addresses many of the themes raised in Chapter 4. It arose as a response to concerns about issues around equal opportunities and participation in sports. An understanding of the precise meaning of Community Sports Development (hereafter most often referred to as CSD) will be progressively developed throughout this chapter, but an initial glimpse would acknowledge that CSD is a form of provision which addresses social concerns about the nature and extent of inequality. Its history is also referred to in the following pages, so other than pinpointing its genesis as being concurrent with the development of ‘Sport for All’ in the early 1970s, that too will be passed over for now.
