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WWW.SPORTSMANAGEMENT.CO.UK Australia invests in innovation
The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is to invest AU$2.5m (€1.7m, £1.5m) to fund 17 projects benefiting 15 sporting organisations as part of its Competitive Innovation Fund programme. Simon Hollingsworth, CEO of ASC, said the sports receiving fund are sailing, swimming, athletics, canoeing, diving, rowing, golf, hockey, winter sports, equestrian, badminton, rugby 7s, basketball, cycling and boxing. The fund projects provide a diverse range of initiatives – from advancing technology in rowing to computational analysis for canoeing and diving – to help Australia’s high performance athletes and coaches perform at an even higher level on the world stage. “The Competitive Innovation Fund is a significant investment in the future of high
Grant to replace Robertson as minister for sport
Conservative MP Helen Grant has been named the new minister for sports and equalities, following the move of current minister Hugh Robertson to the Foreign Office. Te change is part of the coalition government’s reshuffling of ministerial posts, instigated by Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg. Grant moves to the DCMS from the
Department of Justice, where she held the roles of under-secretary of state for justice and women and equalities. To read an inter- view with Helen Grant, turn to p. 44
Badminton – one of the sports to benefit from the funding initiative
performance sport,” Hollingsworth said. “A key goal of the fund is to make sports think differently about the way they pursue suc- cess, including how they could possibly work with other sports to improve performance.” Details:
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Number of UK sports clubs reaches 151,000
Tere are 151,000 sports clubs in the UK, which each club having an average of 141 adult members. Te findings come from the Sports Club Survey 2013 – the largest ever survey of sports clubs in the UK – published by the Sport and Recreation Alliance (SRA). Other key findings in the
report include the average sports club having 33 non- participating members – evidence that clubs don’t merely offer opportunities to play sport, but a social env ironment for the community to be part of. Overall, participating adult membership
levels at the average sports club are an 21 per cent higher in 2013 than they were in 2011. A total of 3,000 sports clubs across more than
Te scheme also promotes less familiar sports
Active Universities reaches 100,000 student landmark
More than 102,000 students have taken part in organised sport through Sport England’s Active Universities programme, surpassing its initial target by more than 20,000. The programme targets broader
participation in university sports, encouraging students to develop a sporting a habit for life, rather than the traditional team and performance improvements. Sport England figures show that 57
per cent of students at universities with Active Universities funded projects now play sport at least once a week. Details:
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Tere are now more community sports clubs in the UK than ever before
100 different sports took part in the survey, which aims to draw an accurate picture of the state of the UK’s grassroots community clubs. Details:
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Independent Scotland would not be part of Team GB at Rio
Scottish sports minister Shona Robison has said the government wants to field indepen- dent teams separate from Team GB at the Olympics and Paralympics at Rio 2016 - if the country votes for independence in a year’s time. Speaking to BBC Sport, Robison claimed
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Scotland would meet the strict conditions in order to become an Olympic nation. She didn’t however, outline how the athletes
would be funded. All Scottish athletes are cur- rently part of the Team GB elite programmes receive their income from UK Sport.
Wales hockey centre’s new pitch a ‘UK first’
Te home of Hockey Wales has been
upgraded with a Greenfield TXpitch, the first of its kind in the UK and the same sur- face that will be used at next year’s Hockey World Cup in Te Hague, the Netherlands. Te £170,000 investment included the
replacement of the existing playing sur- face and shock pad and is part of a strategy to create a hockey centre of excellence at Cardiff. Te contractors for the project was S&C Slatter. Details:
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