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About Us

The Sport and Recreation Alliance is the voice of the sport and recreation sector. Since 1935, the Alliance (formerly known as the Central Council of Physical Recreation) has protected and promoted the interests of our vital sector and membership to government, policy makers and the media. We strongly believe in the transformational power of sport and recreation to positively shape lives and help drive societal and economic growth.

Throughout our new strategy cycle, our unwavering focus will be to deliver with and for our members, particularly our National Governing Body members, who play a foundational role in engaging and keeping people in sport and recreation. As a result of our membership review, we have made several changes to the way in which we are structured and how we operate.

We have evolved our membership structures and services to better support our members and strengthen our role as the independent voice for sport and recreation, bringing together sport and National Governing Bodies to reflect and elevate their systemic role in delivering sport.

We are being smarter in the way we work together with our members, collaborating more effectively to identify key priorities and focusing our resources on delivering against these. We are enhancing our communications and engagement with members to increase awareness of and support for the work we and our members are doing. Using our independent voice, we will protect members’ interests with key decision makers and be bold and ambitious in promoting the benefits of sport and recreation and the impact our members have.

About The Role

Find out more about the role and how to apply by downloading the recruitment pack.

Further Information

Closing date – applications should be received by 12 noon on Friday 24 April 2026.

You will receive an acknowledgement to your email, and we suggest that if you don’t receive this you should contact Kate to confirm your application has been received.

All candidates’ CVs and letters will be considered by the Nominations Committee who will then hold any interviews in the first week of June at the Alliance office in Holborn. 

Members of the Nominations Committee are Dame Janet Beer (Alliance Chair), Dame Sally Dicketts (Alliance Senior Independent Director), Dave Strain (Alliance Appointed Director) and Vicky Williams (LTA People Director). 

All Elected Directors are elected by the Sport and Recreation Alliance Full members.  Therefore, once interviews are completed, the Nominations Committee, on behalf of the Board, will confirm the candidates to be included in the ballot to the membership and invite the Full members to take part in an electronic vote.

Candidates to be included in the ballot process will be asked to provide a candidate statement, photo and a short video clip for inclusion on the Alliance website.

This electronic voting process is conducted on our behalf by Civica.

This year’s ballot will be conducted over a three-week period 6 July to 24 July 2026 during which time Full Members will vote and select their preferred candidate.  The results of the ballot will be known shortly after.  

The chosen candidate’s four-year term of office will commence at the conclusion of the Alliance’s 2026 Annual General Meeting scheduled currently for November.

For more detailed information about the Alliance and a list of the current Directors, please visit our website at www.sportandrecreation.org.uk 

For an informal discussion about the role of Director please contact the Company Secretary.

Apply for role

Closing date: 24th April 2026