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 Sport and Recreation Alliance is part of a coalition of leading organisations across sport, recreation and physical activity that has today come together for the first time to call for radical reform to support the growth and development of the sector.
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Over the past two years sports clubs and community groups have faced testing circumstances; both with the Covid-19 pandemic and now with the increase in the cost of living.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is delighted to welcome Dame Janet Beer to her new role as Chair, a role she began today (5 July), succeeding Andrew Moss who stands down after more than six years at the helm.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is delighted to announce that it has teamed up with British Equestrian on a comprehensive research project that aims to improve understanding about urban equestrian centres across the country.
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Earlier this month, the Sport and Recreation Alliance gathered in Helsinki, Finland with the other partners of the
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is thrilled to confirm that our 2022 Annual General Meeting will be taking place this year on Tuesday 6 September at St James’s Palace in central London.
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To mark Pride Month 2022, the Sport and Recreation Alliance visited one of a growing number of LGBTQ+ inclusive sports clubs in the country.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is delighted to be working alongside the Federation of Irish Sport (FIS) to create a member survey which will help inform the Federation’s work over the next year.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is pleased to announce that Lisa O’Keefe has been appointed as the incoming Secretary General of the International Working Group (IWG) on Women & Sport, the world’s largest network dedicated to advancing gender equity and equality in sport and physical activity.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance has established an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Board Subcommittee to help drive inclusion, fair treatment and diversity across its work and the wider sector.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance is delighted to launch Green for Grassroots, a new campaign to encourage as many people involved in sport and recreation as possible to plant a tree in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year.
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The V4V Project, of which the Sport and Recreation Alliance is a partner of, has launched a first-of-its-kind survey which aims to take a deeper look into the volunteer workforce that supports sport organisations across Europe.
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Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 is taking place from 9-15 May, with loneliness the focus of this year’s campaign.
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The first ever cohort of the Sport and Recreation Alliance Management and Leadership Programme have successfully completed the training course, with a celebration to mark the occasion held in London on Wednesday 4 May.
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Most of us could improve our sun protection habits, and now there’s no excuse, as awareness around this important health and safety routine is about to get ‘super-charged’, thanks to Sunguarding Sport, a NEW campaign by the Melanoma Fund, supported by the Sport and Recreation Alliance.
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Latest figures released by Sport England have shown activity levels for adults are slowly starting to recover following large drops caused by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
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Following the recent publication of Mind’s ‘Mental Health in Elite Sport’ report, the Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation steering group has issued its own ‘Seven Years of Changing Culture’ report highlighting the progress made across the wider sports and recreation sector since 2015 when the Charter was established.
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The winners of the Community Sport and Recreation Awards 2022 were revealed yesterday afternoon at our biggest celebration of grassroots sport and recreation ever.
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The Sport and Recreation Alliance has responded to the government’s Spring Statement, delivered this afternoon by the Chancellor.
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The National Sector Partners Group (NSPG) represents the breadth of the sport, recreation and physical activity sector.
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Sport, recreation and physical activity is enjoyed by millions of participants and fans across the country from grassroots to the elite, delivering huge social and economic value through improved health and wellbeing, connecting communities and supporting economic growth.
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More than 80 guests gathered at Guildhall on Friday to celebrate the International Working Group on Women and Sport returning to the UK later this year.
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The Paralympic Winter Games begin in Beijing today, with 25 athletes selected to be part of ParalympicsGB – the biggest British team since the Lillehammer Games in 1994.
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From trials and tribulations to triumph and tenacity, sport and recreation drives excitement, and thanks to a new innovative platform, you can ensure that your members never miss a moment of action.
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