There is a growing recognition of the ways in which sport and leisure can contribute to well-being. This paper offers a socio-cultural account of the sport-charity nexus as a site and source of community well-being. The paper conceives sports charity as broader than a fundraising imperative or a motivation for physical health outcomes and benefits and argues instead that "fitness philanthropy" is an important socio-sporting movement that mobilises well-being in increasingly neo-liberal times. Drawing on the literature on sport and social capital, and leisure and well-being, the paper argues that fitness philanthropy provides an important social barometer for broader cultural and ideological imperatives that contribute in novel ways to understanding health and well-being.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	wellbeing, social capital, fitness philanthropy, sport and leisure, neoliberalism
Research Division:	Human Society
Research Group:	Sociology
Research Field:	Sociology not elsewhere classified
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding knowledge in human society
UTAS Author:	Palmer, C (Professor Catherine Palmer)
ID Code:	139001
Year Published:	2020
Deposited By:	Office of the School of Social Sciences
Deposited On:	2020-05-19
Last Modified:	2021-04-20
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