The Hartpury Sports Business Hub, managed out of the Department of Sport and Exercise Science, provides students and staff the opportunity to engage with key local and regional sports organisations to complete live briefs and real-world research consultancy. This project is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The Hub currently provides access to a range of organisations including Active Gloucester, Sport Wales, Bream RFC and Gloucestershire County Cricket Club as well as multinational corporations and independent businesses.
Email us Call us: +44 (0) 1452 702 100Sport organisations benefit from having access to a postgraduate student for digital marketing, social media management, research and consultancy purposes while students boost their employability, expand learning and networks, and gain real-world experience.
“The opportunity that has allowed Estella to support our organisation is an invaluable experience that we know will provide us with significant long-term benefits.”
Estella Maloney-Danvers
MSc Sports Management
The Hub offers the following support services to sport organisations in Gloucestershire and across the UK to boost your resources, provide valuable insight and intelligence - and save money.
We offer tailored digital marketing and content creation support for your organisation across a multitude of channels including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter. This student-led service has been designed to help your organisation implement a new strategic direction and provide support to your in-house marketing department.
Benefit from 150 hours of valuable work experience. Each undergraduate student placed within your organisation could help support you across a wide range of topic areas. Work placements greatly increase the chances of our graduates securing graduate level jobs and offer valuable experience and insight into industry.
Do you have an area or idea that you’d like a master’s student to explore for your business? Our sport students engage in a ‘live’ project that helps organisations conduct research into key areas of business development or evaluation, providing data and feedback aligned with project aims and objectives.
Our coaches are adept at planning and delivering high-quality sports and physical activity sessions to a wide range of audiences including Primary and Secondary schools. Our student coaches study on a professionally recognised course that has accreditation from the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA).
We also offer bespoke evaluation and learning support to help organisations understand the value and impact of their work. This may be through tailored impact evaluation strategies and training programmes that will enhance your organisation's delivery capacity and capability.
A unique sporting partnership between Empire Fighting Chance, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Bristol Rovers Football Club and Hartpury University has the power to transform over 500 young people’s lives in Bristol thanks to the RISE project.
Aimed at individuals not in education between the ages of 16 and 24, the Bristol-based RISE (Reform and Interceptions through Sport) programme aims to upskill and boost the employability of young people.
By partnering with the Sports Business Hub, you could help shape the future of industry professionals and be part of the development and growth of Gloucester sport.
MSc Sport Management student, Henry Phillips, used social media to promote elite level education to the world’s top athletes during his postgraduate studentship, offered by Hartpury Sports Business Hub in collaboration with the Strength and Conditioning Academy.
A project carried out by MSc Sports Business Management graduate Travis Fisher via the Hartpury Sports Business Hub is helping to boost sport and physical activity in school children. The collaboration with Active Gloucestershire and the Move More initiative sets out to evaluate and measure the impact of their groundbreaking Creating Active Schools (CAS) Framework.
More than 100 primary school pupils with special educational needs (SENs) have already benefited from an empowering initiative between Gloucester and Forest Alternative Provision School and Hartpury University’s BSc (Hons) Physical Education and School Sport degree programme.
In an exciting collaboration, the Hartpury Sports Business Hub has joined forces with Sport Wales to initiate a unique consultancy project that promises to help nurture the growth and success of physical activity funding in Wales.
Read about how our students are upskilling, boosting their employability, and giving something back to the wider sport community.
“Hartpury taught me how to combine my passion for sport and love for business. Without the support of my lecturers, I wouldn’t have gained the essential knowledge that allowed me to enter the sports marketing industry as a graduate.”
"I loved being able to take the tricks I used while working with Major League Rugby and New York Old Blue RFC and apply them with Bream RFC.”
"Thanks to Hartpury, I've secured a job in the sports events industry that I absolutely love. I can quite honestly say that I would have not got the job without Alex and Mike, my amazing lecturers who were just brilliant the whole way through. I can't recommend Hartpury highly enough!"
“I plan to scale the AdviceAcademy and enable a nationwide roll out of half term and summer camps that help young state-educated rugby players realise their potential."
Michael Green MA, BA (Hons), PGCERTHE, SFHEA
Programme Manager, BA (Hons) Sports Business Management
Alex Kay, PhD, MSc, BA (Hons), PGCert, SFHEA
Senior Lecturer in Sports Business Management
If you’re a business or a student who would like to find out more about the opportunities available, we’d love to hear from you.