چكيده فارسي :
Between 2006 and 2012, a number of state funded interventions were carried out by local sports clubs in a number of disadvantaged housing areas across Denmark. The aim was to include disadvantaged children in organised sport through various project activities arranged by local sports clubs. The question in this paper is whether the projects are “innovative” or “slowly killing” the volunteers in sports associations. Four interventions were the subject of process evaluations, which used qualitative methods including interviews, focus group interviews, observations and document analysis. This research shows that volunteer based sports clubs are expected to be able to both recruit and retain members of children from families with limited economic resources, very little or no tradition for participation in extra familial leisure activities and little or no experience with organized leisure activities. The clubs developed a range of innovative methods, such as cooperation with health professionals and social workers. The cooperation with local community professionals seemed to have an innovative impact on the organisational level of the club as well as on the role of the volunteers. These findings suggest, that volunteers involved in welfare projects develop an ability to cooperate across institutional fields and strengthen the welfare political potential of the clubs. Given the outcome, the project culture may be regarded as innovative and as a driving force behind organisational development in sports associations and thus valuable from a governmental perspective.
