NEWS
Sutcliffe: Clubs missing out on tax benefits
S
ports minister Gerry Sutcliffe
has called on thousands of ama-
teur sports clubs across the UK
to join the Community Amateur Sports
Club (CASC) scheme in a bid to benefit
from major tax savings.
More than 5,500 sports clubs are
currently registered with the CASC
initiative, which has saved organisa-
tions more than £60m in tax relief over
the past seven years and is designed to
provide more money to drive a sporting
legacy post-2012. Launched via the 2002
Finance Act, the CASC scheme enables
amateur sports clubs that meet certain
eligibility criteria to receive mandatory
business rate relief for 80 per cent of
total rates bills and the potential to
More than 5,500 clubs are currently on the CASC scheme
reclaim Gift Aid on donations.
Sutcliffe said: “It is great that we “Sports clubs will play a crucial role Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR),
have signed up more than 5,500 clubs in helping us reach our goal of getting added: “Through registering as a
to the Community Amateur Sports Club two million people more active by 2013. CASC, clubs can keep the money they
scheme and that many sports clubs are Being part of the scheme means that have raised in the community. That
reaping the benefits it brings. But there clubs will have more funds at their dis- means it can be reinvested in kit, in
are thousands of clubs out there that are posal to help increase participation.” coaching and in facilities – all for the
missing out. Brigid Simmonds, chair of the Central good of local sport.”
Olympic chiefs seek
Work set to start on £3m Thame facility
views over ExCeL plans
Plans to stage seven Olympic and
T
he Thame Football Partnership six Paralympic events at the ExCeL
has announced that work is set conference venue in London’s Dock-
to start later this month on the lands during the 2012 Games have
construction of a new £3m community gone on public display.
football centre at Church Farm People are being given the
in Thame, Oxfordshire. chance to comment on the propos-
Plans for the 20-acre (8.1-hectare) als before the London Organising
site boast nine pitches, including flood- Committee of the Olympic and
lit main and artificial pitches. Paralympic Games (LOCOG) submits
When completed, the venue will its planning application to Newham
become the new home of the Thame Council in February.
Boys, Youth and Girls Football Club and The seven Olympic events due to
Thame United Football Club (TUFC).
The venue has been in planning
be staged at ExCeL include box-
More than four years of work has
for more than four years
ing, fencing, judo, table tennis and
gone into the development of the pro- taekwondo, as well as weightlifting
posals, which has seen Thame Football released from residential planning and wrestling. The six Paralympic
Partnership work with consultants permission granted at the former events include boccia, judo, power-
Sports Solutions GB and a range of home of TUFC. lifting and table tennis, as well as
other local delivery partners and fund- Oxfordshire County Council has volleyball and fencing.
ing organisations. provided a long lease for the majority LOCOG chair Sebastian Coe said:
Thame Town Council, the Football of the land for a nominal rent in order “ExCeL is an important venue for
Foundation and South Oxfordshire to help progress the scheme, which is the London 2012 Olympic and Para-
District Council have all contributed now set for completion in the autumn. lympic Games.”
towards the scheme, as well as capital Details:
thamefootball.co.uk
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