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.
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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreBritish Cycling, a number of outdoor recreation organisations and celebrity cyclists have today written open letters to Environment Secretary
Read moreAhead 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.
Read moreWe 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.
Read moreWe have now published the official Notice of the Annual General Meeting 2016 which will be held at King’s Building, the Strand, London.
Read moreToday the Alliance is announcing the appointment of three new non-executive Directors.
Read moreAs 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.
Read moreMike 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.
Read moreYouth Sport Trust Chief Executive, Ali Oliver, blogs about National School Sport Week
Read moreYouth 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.
Read moreYouth 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.
Read moreSport and Recreation Alliance Policy Adviser, Hannah Dobbin, looks at the health drivers within Sport England's Towards an Active Nation strategy.
Read moreThe Sport and Recreation Alliance has responded to figures that show that sports participation has fallen since the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.
Read moreKate Lawrenson, Membership Manager of the Sport and Recreation Alliance, blogs about the experience had at the Patron's Lunch and celebrating the recognition of other Alliance members.
Read moreThe latest Active People Survey results have revealed an increase in the number of people being physically active.
Read moreRobert Gill, Policy Support Officer, blogs about the role of volunteers and their importance to the sector, as underlined in Sport England's strategy.
Read moreFor Volunteer's Week, recently elected Director of the Sport and Recreation Alliance, Lee Mason, blogs about the importance of volunteering in sport from the top to the bottom.
Read moreHelen Underwood, Events Officer, blogs about the benefits of volunteering from her own experience of being a volunteer gymnastics coach.
Read moreHarlequins has become the first professional rugby union club to sign the Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation as the Harlequins Foundation launches its flagship mental health campaign, METTLE.
Read moreLeigh Thompson, Policy Manager, blogs about the seven new investment principles of Sport England's new strategy and what they mean for organisations looking for funding.
Read moreSport and Recreation Alliance CEO, Emma Boggis, reacts to the closing of Little Stoke parkrun.
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