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.
The agenda is available for the Movement and Dance Divisional Meeting taking place on 5 October.
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· The STA has created a bespoke new baby and pre-school swimming programme for Center Parcs. · Called STAnley’s Swim Pups, the unique programme is being piloted at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest and Whinfell Forest this month.
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Following the announcement that the Government is to invest £80m in to a Youth Investment Fund, Policy Adviser, Hannah Dobbin, looks at how sport and recreation organisations can look to tap in to funding of this kind and what they need to prove to do so.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is calling for the Paralympic Games to be represented on a par with the Olympic Games.
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Games and Sport Division Meeting of members of the Sport and Recreation Alliance.
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Agenda details for the upcoming MSSD meeting on 29 September.
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We are calling on parliamentarians to get their kit on and champion grassroots sport in their local constituency.
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Blog from Justin Tomlinson MP, co-chair of the APPG for Sport, about the benefits of grassroots sport and the role MPs have to play in championing their local sports scene.
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The Association for Physical Education (afPE) has officially launched a new strategic plan and website.
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Iain Richards, Media and Marketing Officer of the Wheelchair Dance Sport Association (UK), discusses why the activity is accessible to everyone and why the organisation's mission is to make dancing fun and exciting for all.
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The CEO of British Blind Sport, Alaina MacGregor, discusses the work of the British Blind Sport and how they are making a real difference amongst the blind and partially sighted community.
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As the Paralympic Games get underway in Rio, we asked Karen Tonge MBE, Chair of British Para Table Tennis, what she hopes the GB Para Table Tennis team will achieve and how people can engage in the sport back home.
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Jo Lewis, from Natural England’s People and Nature Team, discusses how the results of the organisation’s four-year Natural Connections project can help the sector to build on the health and wellbeing benefits of high quality outdoor learning for teachers and pupils and what the next steps are to make the pilot scheme nationwide.
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Emma Boggis, Chief Executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance and Non-Executive Director of the British Paralympic Association, blogs about her excitement ahead of the opening ceremony for the Paralympic Games in Rio.
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Policy Manager, Leigh Thompson, blogs about the risks to sport from betting corruption and why NGBs should attend the upcoming Sports Betting Integrity Forum event at Lord's Cricket Ground on 21 September to learn more about how to put in place simple measures to protect the integrity of their sports.
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The Paralympic Games take centre stage in Rio on Friday 7 September and the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) has published new research that demonstrates the public's desire to see more disability sport in the media.
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Team Kinetic Marketing Manager, Emily Crowther reflects on the vital role volunteers played at this year's Homeless World Cup and the value of Team Kinetic to help organisations manage their volunteers and get others to become active in sport.
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Have you ever considered volunteering in sport? We briefly hear from three inspirational young individuals who are leading social action in their communities by volunteering in sport.
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On Saturday 27 August, people across the nation will kick off the bank holiday weekend with I Am Team GB by getting out and getting active – shoulder to shoulder with athletes from Team GB.
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With the Olympics now complete and the countdown to the Paralympics well underway, Emma Boggis turns her attention to volunteers and their vital role to help and support every participant's journey in sport and recreation.
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David Callan, Communications Manager, has looked back in to the Olympic archives to find inspirational #TryYourKitOn stories of yesteryear.
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Just over a week since joining the Alliance, Eleanor Newton, Office Administrator, is already climbing the walls. In her debut blog she talks about a recent climbing taster session she attended with her new colleagues.
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England Handball has created the tools you need to #TryYourKitOn and play handball. England Handball CEO, David Meli, explains more.
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England Handball has created the tools you need to #TryYourKitOn and play handball. England Handball CEO, David Meli, explains more.
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