The Trust funds capital projects which provide or improve facilities for recreation or leisure in London, Surrey, Aylesbury Vale and South Northamptonshire. The Small Capital Project Grants Programme provides awards of between £5,000 and £19,999 to small projects which aim to help improve existing amenities or to build new facilities that will enable organisations to […]
British Cycling is on the brink of failing to push through its governance reforms, putting £43m of Sport England and UK Sport funding in serious doubt. It is understood that it will fail to reach the required 75% majority vote in favour of the reforms at an emergency general meeting of British Cycling’s national council. The governing […]
Dame Katherine Grainger, the incoming chair of UK Sport, has dismissed calls to review the quango’s ‘no compromise’ approach despite 11 sports claiming that the system had “disenfranchised” a number of athletes. A letter penned to Grainger ahead of her official appointment on 1 July stated that the current system was “two-class” and “countered Olympic […]
A number of winter sports have had their UK Sport funding awards altered ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Bobsleigh and figure skating have both seen a slight reduction in funding, while short track speed skating, and ski and snowboard have had their funds topped up. Wheelchair curling has also had its […]
