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Construction work has commenced on Great Yarmouth's £26m Marina Centre, with the venue set to open its doors by Q3 2022. Owned by Great Yarmouth ... More

Sports clubs and community activity groups hit by the COVID-19 lockdown will be able to benefit from emergency funding up to £20,000, thanks to a ... More

More than 100 sports clubs and organisations have already received grants from an emergency storm relief fund launched earlier this month. Set up by Sport ... More

Sport England has published new planning guidance, which aims to make it simpler and easier for local authorities and planning bodies to develop community sports ... More

The government has pledged to invest £15m in improving community cycling facilities across the UK, as part of plans to provide a "lasting legacy" from ... More

The Hive Leisure Centre in Ely, Cambridgeshire is set to open to the public on 14 May – two weeks ahead of schedule. The £13.5m ... More

Sport England has updated and relaunched its guidance on playing fields planning applications, with the aim of further protecting the public spaces in which people ... More

Elite sports centres Lilleshall, Bisham Abbey and the National Water Sports Centre have announced plans to rollout mental health training to all managers. The training ... More

Construction of a £26m leisure centre in Dover, Kent, has been given the go ahead, with work on the 21,000sq m (226,000sq ft) site set ... More

Birmingham and Liverpool’s hopes of hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games are still intact after both passed the initial assessment phase in the UK city selection ... More

Social enterprise Brio Leisure has agreed plans to pump £2.2m (US$2.8m, €2.6m) into Neston Recreation Centre in Cheshire, with Sport England providing more than 20 ... More

Sport England intervention has saved or improved more than 1,000 playing fields over the last year. According to figures from the grassroots sports quango, 91 ... More

Almost £30m has been ploughed into grassroots football facilities over the last six months, courtesy of the Football Association (FA) and the Premier League. According ... More

Development of new leisure centre in East Cambridgeshire has received the go-ahead after Sport England awarded a £1.5m (US$2m, €1.7m) grant towards the £13.5m (US$17.7m, ... More

Building work on a £13.7million leisure centre in Bromsgrove will begin next week. Morgan Sindall Group is building the facility in the Worcestershire town next ... More

British Cycling has ploughed £10m (US$13.3m, €11.8m) of Sport England money into the development of purpose-built cycling facilities over the last seven years. The national ... More

Exploring how the government’s new Sports Strategy will shape the future of the physical activity sector will be top of the agenda during the sector ... More

Sport England has teamed up with the National Trust to create 10 new cycle trails to the tune of £4.25m (US$6.1m, €5.6m). The trails – ... More

The indoor track which will be used by Jessica Ennis-Hill in the run-up to Rio 2016 has undergone a “major upgrade” to simulate conditions for ... More

A Sport England-funded Olympic legacy swimming pool takes centre stage at the newly-opened Royton Leisure Centre in Oldham. Sport England awarded a grant of £134,000 ... More

Leisure operator Serco is to roll out a mentoring programme aimed at tackling chronic inactivity across its sites, following a successful pilot run in partnership ... More

A total of 148 local sports projects will share £10m of National Lottery funding in the latest round of Sport England’s Inspired Facilities Fund. The ... More

Boxing and skiing are among the sports to benefit from the third round of Sport England’s Improvement Fund, which focuses on offering young people better ... More

A new guidance document designed to help local deliverers of sports facilities has been published by Sport England. The Assessing Needs and Opportunities Guide for ... More

Sport England’s National Sport Centre at Bisham Abbey has benefitted from a £7m facelift of its facilities. Funded by Sport England National Lottery funding, the ... More