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sporta is the major organisation representing social enterprises within the cultural and leisure market in the United Kingdom.

Membership is open to non-profit distributing organisations that manage cultural and leisure facilities, open to the general public, on behalf of local authorities.

sporta, founded in 1997, has a membership of 109 leisure trusts and social enterprises, ranging from small trusts representing single leisure centres to larger organisations managing more than 65 sites. Together the members have a combined annual turnover in excess of £640 million, have more than 215 million customers visiting their facilities each year and employ over 28,000 full time employees. Collectively they operate more than 870 individual sites.