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1. These are edited from the full list in Section 3 of the main report. Some suggested actions have been conflated.
2. Scottish Executive (2003) "Sport 21 2003-2007 The National Strategy for Sport - Shaping Scotland's Future".
3. Throughout the report, the term "governing body" is taken to mean "Scottish governing body".
4. These statistics will be updated in the final report of this study on the basis of information which will be provided by sportscotland.
5. The "representativeness" of the sample would have been difficult to assess in any event, as there is no definitive list of clubs available against which the responses could be compared.
6. One response was received from a club in Berwick which is a member of a Scottish - based governing body and plays in a Scottish league. Given that the focus of this work is on sustainability, it was decided to include the club's response. It is not included in this table.
7. Some clubs reported having more than one status (for example, cases where the club itself is a Community Amateur Sports Club, but a trading subsidiary is a limited company).
8. This sums to more than the total number of clubs, as some expressed concerns in more than one area.
9. Seven clubs identified that they had current difficulty to fill vacancies.
10. In each case, fewer than 10 clubs mentioned these policies.
11. One club noted that it would be absurd to assume that, for example, a cricket club could survive long without a specialist wicket keeper, yet clubs assume that a committee member with no experience or skills will be able to make a successful application for funding.
12. A national facilities audit is due to be published by sportscotland in May 2006.
13. One response was received from a club in Berwick which is a member of a Scottish - based governing body and plays in a Scottish league. Given that the focus of this work is on sustainability, it was decided to include the club's response. It is not included in this table.

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