Support the development of archery in Italy, supporting the growth of sports infrastructures and facilitating access to subsidized credit instruments in favor of the Federation and affiliated sports clubs. This is the objective of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the CEO ofInstitute for Sports and Cultural Credit (ICSC), Antonella Baldino, and by the President of Italian Archery Federation (FITARCO), Vittorio Polidori.
The three-year agreement is part of ICSC’s strategy aimed at strengthening collaboration with the National Sports Federations, promoting operational synergies and the dissemination of financial products dedicated to affiliated ASDs and SSDs. Founded in 1961, FITARCO matters today over 27,000 registered athletes e more than 500 sports clubsrepresenting a point of reference for the promotion of archery in all its forms.
Through the Protocol, the Parties will collaborate to ensure widespread dissemination of the financing opportunities made available by ICSC, including the initiative “Top of the Sport” and the Mutuo Light 2.0 FSNtools designed to support the construction, redevelopment and modernization of sports facilities, as well as the purchase of equipment.
The collaboration also enhances FITARCO’s commitment to inclusion and paralympic activity. In fact, archery represents one of the rare sports disciplines that equates athletes with physical disabilities and able-bodied athletes: Paralympic archers can participate, in addition to dedicated competitions, also in all national and international archery competitions, in a sporting model based on equal opportunities and accessibility.
The Protocol expresses the desire to cooperate to support the sustainable development of sport and the strengthening of sports clubs in the area.
“This memorandum of understanding has enormous significance for the growth of our sport – said the President Vittorio Polidori -. The agreement signed with AD Baldino, whom I thank for his availability, will make available to the Federation and all our companies a series of financing instruments that will finally allow us to carry out a widespread redevelopment and the necessary modernization of our associations throughout the national territory. An opportunity that I am sure will be appreciated by our associations and which will make FITARCO a federation in step with the times and capable of attracting an ever-increasing number of members, also because, unlike in the past, the product dedicated to ASD protects company managers and presidents from problems related to sureties or personal guarantees, which are normally requested”.
