Bottled water company Iceni Water, which bottles water at source at its Duxford plant, is offering grants of up to £500 to encourage participation in sport and fitness activities in Cambridgeshire.
Schools, youth clubs, community groups, parish councils and local sports clubs are all invited to apply.
Brett Fleming-Jones, managing director of Iceni Waters , said: "We want to encourage families to choose an active lifestyle and that's why we've launched the Iceni Refreshment Fund."
Grants will be announced on a bi-monthly basis and the first awards will be made at the end of July.  |
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The shadow sports minister, Hugh Robertson, is to put down questions on the bizarre business at Sport England, where an investigation has been ordered into a secret account through which some £20 million earmarked as funding for minor sports has mysteriously disappeared
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Sport England will later this year consider the future funding of grassroots tennis, following government warnings that the sport could see a cut if more elite talent does not emerge
Sport England will later this year consider the future funding of grassroots tennis following government warnings that the sport could see a cut if more elite talent does not emerge.
The sports minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, said the Lawn Tennis Association should look to success stories in cycling, rowing and swimming for lessons on how to bring talent through the system. The familiar post mortem on British failings at Wimbledon, with nine of 11 players in the singles draws crashing out in the first round, was given added legs by Sutcliffe's suggestion that the LTA could see its funding cut if matters do not improve. |
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Sutcliffe said the failure is "embarrassing" but also sought to clarify his remarks, reiterating that tennis is just one of two major sports – along with football – that does not receive lottery funding towards its elite performance. Such is the annual injection of funds from Wimbledon, which makes around £25m, and sponsors that it is the only Olympic sport not to receive money from UK Sport.
But £27m over four years has been promised to the grassroots through Sport England, which views it as a key driver of its target to get one million more people playing sport "regularly" (three or more times a week). The government's promised sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympics, which some senior sporting figures believe has insufficient focus, will be measured according to the target. |
TEENAGERS across South Yorkshire are to benefit from a share of £679m which has been earmarked by the Government to remove nuisance youths from the streets and cut bad behaviour.
Projects in Sheffield, Doncaster and Barnsley are to be given grants from the Aiming High fund, announced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
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As Director of Drug-Free Sport, Parkinson explains, one of the big changes set to come about once the NADO (ational Anti-Doping Organisation) is established by the end of this year is that a more centralised approach will be taken to the management of doping cases in the UK.
“By accepting public money,” he says, track “[National Governing Bodies] accept that they are delegating their results management authority to the NADO.
“There is one tiny caveat…which is that if an NGB can demonstrate that they have competent disciplinary procedures, they can choose to present the case within their own independent tribunal. |
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