Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)Found: And I believe that's all the VS as well. [ FC] One pilot VSH mentioned working with the local Football
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: build confidence aligned to local skills priorities, such as helping refugees learn English through football
Mentions:
1: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) Avanti was selling tickets for a train that was never going to run.That particular Saturday, Chelsea Football - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) That is why Alex Cole-Hamilton leads a party that could not even field a five-a-side football team.What - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) The Government promised levelling up, yet the chair of Middlesbrough football club, a former Ben Houchen - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) In sport, the absence of government action has led 35 football clubs to decide to go it alone and join - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) If you ever go to a football match, as I do, you cannot escape the gambling adverts and the involvement - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) the last club to join the campaign The Big Step, calling for an end to all gambling advertising in football - Speech Link
Asked by: Thérèse Coffey (Conservative - Suffolk Coastal)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the (a) value of grants made and (b) number of recipients of funding from the National Citizen Service was in (i) Suffolk Coastal constituency, (ii) Suffolk and (iii) the UK since 2010.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Following Covid-19 and a strategic review, in 2023 the NCS Trust launched a new delivery model for the NCS programme. The new programme consists of residential, community and digital experiences. NCS Trust provides grant-funding to local organisations across England to deliver these community experiences.
In Suffolk, two organisations have received a total of £321,445 grant-funding. Volunteering Matters have received a grant to work with targeted groups of young people in Suffolk. Hear2Listen have received a grant, and are delivering programmes for young people in their local communities through Inspire Suffolk and Ipswich Town Football Club. Currently NCS Trust have not funded organisations that work exclusively in the Suffolk coastal constituency, however the grant funded organisations they work with in Suffolk cover this area in their remit.
Asked by: Thérèse Coffey (Conservative - Suffolk Coastal)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the (a) number and (b) value was of grants made to grassroots sport in (i) Suffolk and (ii) Suffolk Coastal constituency since 2010.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Government is committed to levelling up access to community and grassroots sport - physical activity should be accessible to all, no matter a person’s background or location. As part of this commitment, the Government is delivering an historic level of direct investment to build or upgrade thousands of grassroots facilities across the UK. The total of this investment is £409 million. This includes:
£327 million to provide up to 8,000 new and improved multi-sport grassroots facilities and pitches across the whole of the UK between 2021 and 2025.
£21.9 million to renovate over 3,000 tennis courts across Scotland, England and Wales between 2022 and 2024.
Over £60 million via the Swimming Pool Support Fund in 2023/24 to support public swimming pool providers in England with immediate cost pressures, and provide investment to make facilities sustainable in the longer-term.
In total, Suffolk has received over £1.9m in funding through these programmes:
Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme: Over £1 million has been awarded through 38 grants since 2021. Over £74k has been invested into Suffolk Coastal specifically through 16 grants. All funded sites are listed on gov.uk here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/multi-sport-grassroots-facilities-programme-projects-2021-to-2025
Swimming Pool Support Fund: Over £900,000 has been awarded to 7 individual facilities across 5 Local Authorities in the Suffolk region by March 2025. All funded sites are listed here on Sport England’s website: https://www.sportengland.org/news-and-inspiration/swimming-pool-support-fund-helps-facilities-prepare-future
Funding for football and multi-sport projects awarded in England prior to 2021 were delivered by the Football Foundation, funded through Sport England. Sport England’s funding to the Football Foundation is available on their website, along with all awards made by Sport England to football clubs since 2009: https://www.sportengland.org/
Further details of local authorities and swimming pools/leisure centres awarded funding from Phase I and Phase II of the Swimming Pool Support Fund are available on Sport England’s website at:
https://www.sportengland.org/news/swimming-pool-support-fund-keeps-leisure-centres-afloat
Sport England has also invested an additional £85 million into projects which facilitate participation in grassroots football. For a breakdown of the projects funded across this period, Sport England publishes an updated register of grant awards on a quarterly basis, with awards dating back to 2009 listed in full.
Correspondence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: Correspondence with Frasers Group, relating to the categorisation of football boots and the impact this
Apr. 24 2024
Source Page: Prime Minister’s conference speech in Germany: 24 April 2024Found: weeks… …through the G7 and NATO summits… …the European Political Community… …and maybe when our two football