Half of sports clubs in the red or forced to use savings due to spiraling energy costs. | VRT NWS: news

Almost half of Flemish sports clubs are running at a loss or are having to draw on their financial reserves in order to foot the bill for spiraling energy costs. That’s according to figures published on Friday by the Flemish Sports Federation. The Federation says that the region’s sports clubs urgently require financial support from the public purse to help see them through the current energy crisis. It also calls for sports clubs to be offered free energy audits that would identify where energy