After the start of the school year, “Tours en fête” welcomes this Sunday, September 11, 2022 registrations for the sports and/or artistic start of the school year, around the Bergeonnerie lake. The traditional questions then arise in the aisles and between the stands: rather rugby or handball? archery or water polo? It doesn’t matter if the final choice is theater or volleyball, all these activities have a price.
– Lisa Guinick
Touraine parents are divided on this question of the place to be made in the family budget to practice swimming or singing. Maya, 5, wants to do African dance for her first sporting activity. Audrey, his mother, is ready to make some concessions. “I don’t ask myself the question: if she wants to flourish, we will make a few other small restrictionsshe says. We want her to have fun.”
The importance of sports practice
Same investment for Claire, Eléonore’s mother. The 11-year-old girl wants to try some new climbing walls. “Sport is importantsays Claire. We can review priorities, _if it’s an activity in which she feels really good.” “The idea is to support her: if she likes climbing and the_‘we have to make a little effort, we will do it’, she adds.
– Lisa Guinick
Meryem, mother of a 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, wonders more, on her side. “Seen that everything increases, launches the young woman smiling, maybe we’ll take a look”. “For the moment, he is the only child [à pratiquer un sport]lights up Meryem, pointing to his son Ismaïl, so we can allow him to choose whatever activity he wants.” “When there is the second, we may ask ourselves more questions”, she continues. For Ismaïl, it will therefore be basketball this year.
Only one activity to fit within the budget
Enzo, 12, is getting closer to the badminton stand but not sure if he can also continue climbing : “Budgetally no”, advance Franck, his dad. “We have two children. Climbing is still at a very high price, so badminton and climbing do a lot”he motivates.
– Lisa Guinick
On the professional side, inflation also generates a real dilemma. Many clubs are strangled between a increase in their expenses and a rate to be set, without losing members. The Ardente of Tours tried to compromise.
Energy prices on the rise
Roger Delissus is the president of the football section: “We were forced [d’augmenter le tarif de la licence] in relation to the current problem. The association makes trips and therefore with “the price of gasoline which increases, the price of insurance, the price of premises”, no other choiceconfirms the football coach, that review membership.
Fifteen additional euros approximately, to reach 145 euros per year. “We didn’t want to increase too much, to avoid losing one of the licensees. We have done as fairly as possible”. The parents of the Ardente de Tours seem to understand: the club has not lost any chicks.
