Sports bodies and Organisations

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Sports bodies and Organisations
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Introduction

• Over the next couple of lessons we shall be
  looking at the ways sport is organised and
  looked after.
• Without this organisational structure the amount
  of participation would not be so high which is
  one of all the organisations main aims.

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In March 1999 the English Sports Council was
rebranded as Sport England. Its three main aims
are - To get more people involved in sport -
To provide more places to play sport - To
present more medals through higher standards of
performance in sport.
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• What does Sport England do?
• Sport England exists to sustain and increase
  participation in community sport. This includes
  informal activities like aerobics and pilates,
  newer activities , such as skateboarding and
  more traditional team sports like football and
  netball. So..
• This is achieved by promoting, investing in and
  advising on the development and maintenance of
  high quality sporting pathways which release
  potential through
• - Community sports activities
• - Sports clubs
• - Coaches and officials
• - Developing programmes such as Active Schools
• - Funding development staff to help governing
  bodies for different sports and local
  authorities
• - Facilities encouraging new and improved,
  funding research.

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Raising standards of performance To try to
ensure that there is as much sporting success as
possible (medals/ trophies etc on the world
stage) there are 5 National Sports Centres
Bisham Abbey (Multi sport centre) Holme
Pierrepont National Water Sports
Centre Lilleshall (Multi sport centre) Plas Y
Brenin National Mountain Centre Shieffield
(EISS) Each centre provides elite athletes with
a range of specialist facilities, equipment,
expertise and residential accommodation suitable
for training and competition.The centres also
offer full facilities for the general public
including conferencing and banqueting, as well as
beginners and improvers programmes in most of the
activities that take place at each site. Refer
to handout. Homework Activity
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• Finance of Sport England
• Sport England is funded by the government and
  the money it receives goes towards developing
  sport at all levels. In addition, Sport England
  is responsible for distributing National Lottery
  funds that are allocated for the development of
  sport in England and it does this through the
  sport England fund.
• To help with the efficient running of the
  organisation there are ten regional offices
  throughout England.
• HOW MUCH?
• Since 1994 we have invested more than 550m
  exchequer or government funding and 2.2 billion
  National Lottery funding into sport and physical
  activity.

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• International Olympic Committee (IOC)

This is the governing body of the Olympic Games.
Its main functions are - To select host cities
for the summer and winter games. - To approve the
sports to be included in the Olympics.

• To work with the host city, international
  governing bodies and international sports
  federations to plan the games.
• New members of the IOC are elected by the current
  members and a representative may be elected from
  any nation that has a national Olympic committee
  . Usually any one nation only has one
  representative but nations which have hosted the
  games may have two.

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• British Olympic Association (BOA)

This body works closely with the IOC and promotes
and organises all the British involvement with
the Olympics. Its main responsibilities are
organising and choosing teams for the games as
well as raising enough money to send them there.
The Olympic charter does not all any political
involvement so the BOA is constantly involved in
fund raising. The high status of the games means
that sponsorship of the team is quite attractive
proposition for sponsoring bodies.
Central Council of Physical Recreation
(CCPR) This is one of the most important sports
organisations. It was founded in 1935 and set two
particular objectives

• To encourage as many people as possible to
  participate in all forms of sport and physical
  recreation
• To provide the separate governing bodies of
  individual sports with a central organisation to
  represent and promote their individual and
  collective interests.

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• The CCPR and UK Sport
• The CCPR has very strong and close links with UK
  sport. There is not a direct connection, so that
  the CCPR keeps its independence, but it does act
  as an advisory body.
• Because the membership of the CCPR is so large
  it has grouped the governing bodies into six
  separate divisions
• - games and sports
• - interested organisations
• - major spectator sports
• - movement and dance
• - outdoor pursuits
• - water recreation
• Funding of the CCPR is very important because it
  is such a large body. Funding is through -
  donations from governing bodies
• - sponsorship from industry
• - sale and marketing of CCPR publications
• - contracted financial support from UK sport