Submitted on Wednesday 5th February 2014
Published on Wednesday 5th February 2014
Current status: Closed
Closed: Thursday 5th February 2015
Signatures: 546
Reconsitiute UK Sport for fairer funding
UK Sport funding is elitist. It’s no compromise rule perpetuates funding for sports inaccessible to the vast majority.
In 2012 37% of our medal winners were privately educated. The reason is UK Sport’s funding. Even an ambitious state school can only offer a few of the 19 sports funded.
The sport that receives the most UK Sport money has 0.17% participation.
Half of the funded sports have 14-25 participation numbers so low (next generation of medallists) Sport England suppresses the data. The system is hugely-weighted against team and globally popular sports. Currently one team sport is funded, unsurprisingly it’s popular in independent schools.
UK Sport is not fit for purpose. It is anti-team and justifies itself on a self-fulfilling prophecy ‘if you don’t win medals, we won’t fund you, so you won’t win medals’
The Government must reconstitute UK Sport, end this elitism and give a fairer platform to team sports.
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