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New funding needs to be start of a wider Sports Recovery Fund

Government has today announced £100 million of funding has been allocated to a new scheme introduced to address the ongoing challenges local authority sport and leisure facilities are facing.

Published 22 October 2020, Politics

Chancellor’s Winter Economy Plan helpful but more needed to help sport and recreation recover

The Sport and Recreation Alliance has responded to the statement made by the Chancellor on Thursday 24 September.

Published 25 September 2020, Politics

Leaders from sport and physical activity sector appeal to PM for urgent funding and central role in nation’s Covid-19 recovery

Leaders from more than one hundred sport and physical activity bodies have sent a letter to the Prime Minister urging him to ringfence funding for the recovery of the sports and activity sector – or risk fuelling physical inactivity and related illnesses for a generation.

Published 21 September 2020, Politics

Alliance and ukactive call for VAT support for sport and physical activity sector

The Sport and Recreation Alliance and ukactive have called on the government to extend to the sport and physical activity sector the same VAT reduction provided to the hospitality, accommodation and culture sectors to help the industry to survive through COVID-19.

Published 27 August 2020, Politics

Obesity Strategy – A case of more carrots, less hockey sticks.

This week the government released its Obesity Strategy. While a move towards active travel is to be welcomed, the government must look at wider sport and recreation alternatives and invest in the sector for the long-term.

Published 31 July 2020, Politics

Government relax COVID-19 restrictions to allow unlimited exercise

On Sunday 10 May, the government announced they would be easing restrictions to allow unlimited exercise during lockdown.

Published 11 May 2020, Politics

Alliance welcomes news of support for self-employed

The Sport and Recreation Alliance was pleased to hear the Chancellor confirm that additional support has been made available for self-employed individuals.

Published 26 March 2020, Politics

Alliance calls for extra support for the self-employed

The Sport and Recreation Alliance is urging the government to respond to calls for additional support for self-employed workers, a request we highlighted at a meeting with the Secretary of State for DCMS last week.

Published 25 March 2020, Politics

Budget 2020 – what’s in it for sport and recreation?

The 2020 Budget was announced yesterday as the Chancellor disclosed a raft of measurements designed to inject billions of pounds into the economy.

Published 12 March 2020, Politics

Alliance calls for sustained funding and tax breaks ahead of The Budget

The Sport and Recreation Alliance has written to the Chancellor ahead of the Budget to ask for protection of the Sugar Tax funding for school sport and to call for wider tax reliefs to be made available for grassroots sport and recreation clubs.

Published 10 March 2020, Politics