Feedback from registered community amateur sports clubs clearly demonstrates that not enough suppliers and service providers offer suitable deals, discounts or special terms for the Community Amateur Sports Club.

The simple reason is that most commercial companies do not understand (except for some small differences) that the CASC is virtually a Sports Charity. Anyone reading briefly through HMRC guidance for CASC, will note that the terms of the guidance closely align the two entities together as CASC/Charity.

According to ACASC: "As a result of the uninformed way that commercial suppliers view CASCs, they are often treated in the same way as any other business entity - and usually end up paying standard commercial rates for services."

To be fair, the CASC was only established on the statute books in 2002. As a result, a general lack of understanding of the CASC's unique position in the community, has led to a wide lack of 'commercial awareness' for the CASC - especially in comparison to the better known Charity model.