BSA Buying Group

Sports Clubs & Hospitality Venues

The fall in average UK household disposable income since 2008 may well result in lower sales revenues for many sports clubs, hotels, restaurants, theatres and leisure centres - resulting in lower profits. A reduction in operating costs will help to counter this profit drop, and the BSA is ideally placed to help you to do just that, through its range of purchasing support services and buying power.

BSA has boosted the profits of countless UK sports clubs and hospitality venues through a combination of purchasing advice, specific cost category tendering and BSA4Sport Buying Group. Clients include sports clubs, racehorsing venues, theatre groups, hotels, restaurants and leisure centres.

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Examples of our work in this sector:

The Jockey Club - across all 14 racecourses (e.g. Cheltenham, Aintree, Newmarket) we reduced their stationery and office supplies costs by 30% and slashed their print costs through a thorough review of print specifications and then conducting a tendering exercise;
A Championship football club - we benchmarked their cleaning supplies and stationery costs, delivering cost savings worth over 25%;
One of the UK's largest theatre groups - we've saved significant sums of money across their cleaning, stationery, telecoms, utilities and parcel courier service spend areas;
Several Hotel Groups - we delivered 25% overhead cost savings;
Several Leisure Centres have saved over 20% across cleaning, utilities, telecoms, credit card processing, workwear and stationery supplies, business rates.
Plus dozens of independent hotels, theatres, restaurants, food outlets.

How BSA Buying Group Helps

We take a straightforward, low-effort approach:

We assess whether your current arrangements are competitive.
We connect you with a trusted broker partner or pre-vetted supplier.
They review your costs and provide clear options.
You decide whether to proceed.

If there is no clear saving or improvement, we will tell you.

Designed for Busy Commercial Teams

We understand that Directors and operational teams don’t have time to run multiple supplier reviews. In most cases, all we need is a recent bill or a short conversation. We handle the rest.

No Cost To Your Business

We do not charge our clients, but rather are paid by our supplier partners, typically on an ongoing basis, for introducing and supporting relationships. This does not increase the price you pay. Our focus is simple: deliver better value, or do nothing.

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For a review of the print spend across our 15 sites we used the Buying Support Agency, to input their expert understanding of print cost drivers and the print services market place. They have made an enormous contribution by helping us secure significant savings on price and also by optimising specifications and our ways of working.Ian Sidgwick, Group Purchasing Director, the Jockey Club

We engaged with the services of BSA4Sport Buying Group recently to review our costs across our 19 leisure centre sites. We’ve been delighted with the results so far, with over £60k of estimated annual savings identified so far across janitorial, workwear, PPE, office supplies and water. We’re now reviewing other running costs with BSA4Sport and expect to improve our cashflow and profitability significantly thanks to their buying power and procurement expertise. We would definitely recommend BSA4Sport Buying Group to other leisure centres and sports clubs.Joe Simpson, Abbeycroft Leisure

I’m so glad that I agreed to work with BSA4Sport Buying Group; they’ve saved 39% off our telecoms costs, 15% off our water bills. That’s given our club’s cash flow a real boost. I would recommend BSA4Sport Buying Group to any sports club.T. Rawlinson, General Manager, Ringway Golf Club