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 Government has today launched its plan to tackle childhood obesity including details on a Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
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Adrian Ruth, Alliance board member and Director of Spark and Sustainability at the BBC, blogs about his Olympic inspiration that led him to take part in July's RideLondon event.
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The Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed that council led sport and recreation initiatives has contributed to an increase in the number of people being active.
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Fi Darby and Lucy Atkins, otherwise known as as the Two Blondes Walking" tell about what inspires them to get active outdoors and how others can get involved.
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Today sees the publication of the independent appraisal of the future role of County Sports Partnerships (CSPs) undertaken by Andy Reed OBE at the request of the Minister for Sport, Tracey Crouch MP.
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Sport England has published its summary of the School Games Review.
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As part of #WomenOutdoors Week we've caught up with two avid climbers and got their views on why more women should get involved in climbing and outdoor recreation.
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London 2012 Olympian Holly Lam-Moores blogs about why she decided to get in to coaching and the value she's gained from it.
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This week, we published the results of survey which revealed that more women are inspired by the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games to increase their physical activity than men.
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You may have seen on Twitter, James Allen our Policy Director declared he would aim to exercise or take part in a sport every day this month. Here, he explains the method behind the madness.
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British Red Cross has recently launched #UpYourGame to encourage an increasingly active British public to learn first aid.
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The International Olympic Committee has confirmed Baseball/Softball, Karate, Skateboarding, Sports Climbing and Surfing to the sports programme for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
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Hannah Dobbin, part of the Alliance's Policy team, blogs about her experience at a recent Disability Sports Coach drop-in session and how events like this inspire people to try their kit on and get active.
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Amid the furore over the Russian doping scandal, Leigh Thompson, Policy Manager at the Alliance, blogs about the risks to the integrity of sport and how they could be managed better in future.
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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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