Following on from the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Sport and Recreation Alliance has been working hard to ensure that our voice is heard in the media on a number of topical issues.
We’ve made front pages and been featured across broadcast, digital and print media covering issues from playing fields and volunteering to red tape and club taxation.
After such a successful Olympics, a key priority for the Alliance is to continue the current momentum and ensure that sport and recreation benefits from the Olympic legacy in the long term.
This very much hinges on creating the right environment in which sport can thrive which is why our policy work and research focuses on certain key areas where we can really make a difference.
We're now looking to continue our campaigning and raising awareness of the issues that matter on behalf of our members and the sport and recreation sector as a whole, both in this Olympic year and beyond.
Sport and Recreation Alliance media coverage: August 2012
NB For Times articles you will need a subscription.
British Volunteer Awards: help find the nation's unsung heroes
Telegraph.co.uk - 08/19/2012
Almost 2,000 academy school playing fields can be sold off, ministers admit
Telegraph.co.uk - 08/17/2012
Keep the flame alive: Olympics inspires nation to volunteer
Telegraph.co.uk - 08/17/2012
'We like to catch them young’
The Telegraph - 08/20/2012
Gove facing backlash over school field sales: Sports group angry as he admits ignoring expert advice
The Mail On Sunday - 08/18/2012
Michael Gove ‘incorrect on playing field data’
Channel 4 News - -08/17/2012
New rules on school playing space criticised
BBC News - 08/16/2012
Olympics: Government puts clubs at heart of legacy plans
BBC Sport - 08/16/2012
School Playing Field Row After Rule Change
Sky News – 08/15/2012
Campaigners issue warning over school sports
ITV news – 08/12/2012
School sports fields in danger as government relaxes rules
Education - Guardian.co.uk - 08/14/2012
London 2012 Olympics: minority sports desperate to make most of Olympics Games boost
The Telegraph - 08/14/2012
5 live Sport: Tim Lamb commenting on legacy
BBC 5 Live - 08/14/2012
Education in brief: Bog standards
The Guardian - 08/13/2012
Alliance calls for fairer broadcasting deal for smaller sports
The Times - 08/13/2012
Any legacy from the Games will need careful commitment
The Times - 08/13/2012
Following its record medal haul in London, is Team GB likely to win even more in Rio?
City A.M. - 08/13/2012
Incomes of grass-roots sports charities 'have fallen in past eight years'
Third Sector - 08/10/2012
Red tape is strangling amateur clubs
Telegraph - 08/10/2012
BBC London News: Olympic Legacy
BBC London - 08/10/2012
Grassroots sports clubs see income fall despite Olympics, says CAF
Civil Society – 08/09/2012
BBC 24 News interview with Tim Lamb
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BBC Manchester interview with Andy Reed
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BBC Northamptonshire interview with Tim Lamb
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If you are a journalist or editor contact our press team on 020 7976 3933.
For more information email the Alliance’s communications officer: Libby Jellie.
On 25 March, CEO of the Sport and Recreation Alliance Lisa Wainwright MBE gave evidence to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee’s Game On Inquiry in Parliament.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance and the physical activity sector have published an open letter to the Government on the impact of Pathways to Work on disabled people and activity levels across the UK.
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Here, we seek to update you on some of the key workstreams we’re focused on, as well as provide an overview of the ways in which you, our members, can foster more inclusive, equitable, and diverse environments for your organisations, including advertising some of the training options we provide (at discount!) and job postings too.
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