21 Aug 2012

Alliance in the media this month

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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.
 

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