To mark the Alliance’s 90th anniversary, we are launching the Community Sport and Recreation Awards: Youth Edition 2025, which will celebrate the next generation of young leaders from across the sector.
Our Policy Officer, Max Nicholls, urges government to make investment in sport services mandatory for local authorities to help unlock barriers to participation and improve the sport and recreation delivery system.
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We are excited to announce that our chief executive Lisa Wainwright has been named CEO of the Year at the 2019 English Women’s Awards, supported by Creative Oceanic.
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Last week was a big week here at the Sport and Recreation Alliance. We released our
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance and ukactive have today (20 November) announced a sport and physical activity hustings with the main political parties, in the build-up to the general election.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is delighted to welcome Assistant Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police, Jackie Sebire to its Board of Directors as an Appointed Director.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance has released its General Election Manifesto which calls on political parties to put sport and recreation at the heart of the policy agenda.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is thrilled to announce that it will work alongside the Football Association to deliver governance training to County Football Association (County FA) chairs and vice-chairs.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is thrilled to announce that the 2020 Community Sport and Recreation Awards ceremony will take place on Friday 6 March 2020 at the King Power Stadium in Leicester.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is delighted to announce that CEO Lisa Wainwright has been ranked at number 8 in the 2019 OUTstanding 30 LGBT+ Public Sector Executives List, supported by Yahoo Finance.
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The latest Sport England Active Lives Survey has been published and it shows that one million more adults are reaping the benefits of being physically active.
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With the conversation around Brexit moving all the time, the Sport and Recreation Alliance has pulled together the below to provide guidance to our members on several frequently asked questions.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is delighted to confirm that it will work alongside Perrett Laver on improving sector diversity – a project launched by Sport England and UK Sport on Friday 20 September.
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New research commissioned by the Sport and Recreation Alliance has revealed that primary schools need greater certainty over the long-term funding of the PE and Sport Premium in order to deliver sustainable improvements in school sport.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance welcomes the Chancellor’s
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Following the Chancellor's announcement of a one-year Spending Review, the Sport and Recreation Alliance is calling on the Treasury to make sure the budget for Sport in DCMS is maintained for the one year term of the review.
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The Alliance responds to Boris Johnson appointment.
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Sport and Recreation Alliance CEO Lisa Wainwright has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Bedfordshire, in recognition of her services to sport education.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance welcomes the School Sport and Activity Action Plan which sets out a helpful cross-government ambition to make sure all children do at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day.
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Have you paid the annual data protection charge? All organisations in the sport and recreation sector that process personal data are required to pay an annual data protection charge to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) unless a relevant exemption applies.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance has revealed an activity map which shows the alarming number of children and young people who fail to meet minimum recommended levels of activity in England.
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Parliamentary and Policy Officer Ryan McCullough has been back at Westminster to provide our members with an update on what's happening in Parliament.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is pleased to announce the first sponsor of the 2020 Community Sport and Recreation Awards.
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In April this year the Sport and Recreation Alliance held it's first meeting of the newly-established Youth Advisory Panel. The group is chaired by Valerie Copenhagen, Head of Participation at UK Deaf Sport, and she wants to highlight the crucial role of groups like this.
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