The shadow home secretary Andy Burnham has warned that government cuts to grassroots sport due to be announced next week will be “the final nail hammered into the coffin of the legacy of London 2012”.
Those in the sport sector are steeling themselves before a Comprehensive Spending Review that is expected to impose cuts of 25-40% across non-protected departments in Whitehall. The budgets of Sport England, which invests £300m a year directly into grassroots sport, and UK Sport, which is investing £543m in elite athletes over the current Olympic cycle, could to an extent be protected because the majority of their funding comes from the national lottery rather than the exchequer.
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Senior Men and Senior Woman Sitting in a Lawn Bowling, Woman Holding a Trophy
