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December 12, 2022

Yorkshire Live – Huddersfield ‘fastest growing in UK’ for sport despite plan to close leisure centres

The report by law firm Irwin Mitchell and the Centre for Economics and Business Research revealed Huddersfield’s sports-related activity generated an additional £8m between the years of 2019 and 2020, seeing an increase from £52.7m to £60.7m. Again, this comes despite the difficulties experienced during Covid and occurred alongside an increase in employment in the sector, leaping by over a third from 1,575 to 2,150.

The top eight growing sports economies in 2020 were revealed to be located in Yorkshire and the Humber, collectively adding £60.1m to the economy of the UK’s sports sector. These were the only locations in the report to see economic growth in the sector during the Covid pandemic.

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