On Wednesday 30 October, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves MP delivered her first Budget statement to the House of Commons. Whilst the Budget’s core focus was on a number of key tax rises to fund increased spending on health and education, we look below at some of the measures which will be of interest for Alliance members and the sport and recreation sector.
The latest Taking Part survey in England, looking at participation in the cultural and sporting sectors, showed that 57% of 11-15 year olds said the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games had encouraged them to take part in sport.
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Sense, the national deafblind charity, has been awarded a grant of £424,958 from Sport England to increase opportunities for people with deafblindness to participate in sport and physical activity through its Sporting Sense project.
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Emma Boggis, Chief Executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance, blogs about the legacy of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games and how the Alliance is promoting its impact on the sector with its #TryYourKitOn campaign.
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Emma Wade, Parliamentary Officer, re-caps a hectic couple of weeks in British politics with an update of who now sits where in cabinet and shadow cabinet re-shuffles.
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David Callan, Communications Manager at the Sport and Recreation Alliance, looks at whether apps like Pokémon Go encourage people to get active and how sport and recreation organisations might tap in to this market and approach.
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Public Health England (PHE) has launched the latest edition of Health Matters - a resource that highlights public health challenges and provides evidence based actions to help address them.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance has released its Keeping fit for the future report to demonstrate how the organisation has and will continue to work with its members to identify the opportunities and challenges ahead, so that the future of the sector is bright.
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For over 20 years the Sport and Recreation Alliance has been celebrating the great work of community sport and recreation clubs and today announced the winners of this year’s Community Sport and Recreation Awards.
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A new national campaign has launched today to encourage and support disabled people, along with their friends and families, to become more active.
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This summer we are proud to be supporting the Outdoor Kids Sun Safety Code (OKSSC); to help inform and better equip those who work outdoors to protect children from the harmful effects of the sun.
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A new report from international professional services firm, Deloitte, has estimated the leisure sector, encompassing our spending on holidays, eating-out, gym and sport in the UK, to be worth over 17bn pounds in revenue.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance and ukactive have launched Physical Activity and Health: Working Together to get the Nation Moving. This new report explores the current public health landscape in England and how the sport, recreation and physical activity sector can work alongside health to get more people active, more often.
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British Cycling, a number of outdoor recreation organisations and celebrity cyclists have today written open letters to Environment Secretary
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Ahead of next week's launch of the Physical Activity and Health report, Emma Boggis, Chief Executive of Sport and Recreation Alliance and Steven Ward, Executive Director of ukactive, explain why partnerships are vital to getting the nation active and healthy.
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We will be working with our members to understand what the result of the EU Referendum will mean for the sport and recreation sector. As we wait for further details to be released, here are our first thoughts about what may effect the sector.
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We have now published the official Notice of the Annual General Meeting 2016 which will be held at King’s Building, the Strand, London.
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Today the Alliance is announcing the appointment of three new non-executive Directors.
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As part of our series of articles related to National School Sport Week, John Driscoll, Executive Director sports coach UK, blogs about the important role coaches play in inspiring young people to want to take part in sport.
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Mike Crichton, Chair of the National Association of Physical Education shares his thoughts on the importance of high quality physical education in light of the Youth Sport Trust's National School Sport Week.
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Youth Sport Trust Chief Executive, Ali Oliver, blogs about National School Sport Week
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Youth Sport Trust launch the 2016 National School Sport Week as a new report on the nation’s obesity crisis highlights the value and importance of getting people active.
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Youth Sport Trust launch the 2016 National School Sport Week as a new report on the nation’s obesity crisis highlights the value and importance of getting people active.
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Sport and Recreation Alliance Policy Adviser, Hannah Dobbin, looks at the health drivers within Sport England's Towards an Active Nation strategy.
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