Department of Culture news

The UK government has announced a National Youth Strategy, backed by £500 million, to rebuild youth services, train youth workers and other professionals to support ... More

Following the May 2025 announcement by The Walt Disney Company and Miral of plans to build a Disney theme park and resort on Yas Island ... More

The UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced £900 million for major sporting events and grassroots sports across the UK, as part ... More

The much-anticipated UK government’s Spending Review (SR) 2025 was delivered yesterday (11 June), which sets departmental budgets until 2028-9. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the SR ... More

Commentators are speculating that the Labour government is considering disbanding the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Writing in The Sunday Times on 4 May, ... More

UK Active has written to chancellor, Rachel Reeves, asking for measures to offset the cost increases the fitness sector will incur as a result of ... More

Lisa Nandy, secretary of state at the UK government's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) gave a speech to the sector this week at ... More

The UK's National Sector Partners Group (NSP) has called on the new government to pledge to make the UK the most physically active nation in ... More

Lucy Frazer has replaced Michelle Donelan as culture secretary at the UK's newly-named Department for Culture, Media and Sport. She becomes the eleventh culture secretary ... More

A new natural history museum in Abu Dhabi will take visitors on a 13.8-billion-year journey through time and space. Called the Abu Dhabi Natural History ... More

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi has launched two new experiences to celebrate the attraction's 10th anniversary. The Ferrari World Abu Dhabi Roof Walk experience allows guests ... More

Zayed National Museum, the Foster + Partners-designed development intended as the national museum of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), looks set for a 2021 opening ... More

Sultan Al Dhaheri, the executive director for Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism, has identified the visitor attractions sector as a key component of ... More

Andy Reed, the Sports Think Tank director and former Loughborough MP, has been appointed as the first independent chair of the Sport and Play Construction ... More

West Bromwich Albion (WBA) has become the first Premier League football club to officially declare its interest in creating a standing area for supporters at ... More

Chris Pilling, the former chief executive of the First Direct, has been tasked with overseeing the preparations ahead of Yorkshire hosting the 2019 UCI World ... More

Sports minister Tracey Crouch MP will deliver this year’s keynote address at Elevate, the UK’s largest cross-sector event focused on tackling physical inactivity. Speaking alongside ... More

A review of into the effectiveness and governance of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has been launched by the government. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport ... More

Sports national governing bodies with low female representation on their boards should make changes immediately and not wait for vacancies to arise, according to Women ... More

The UK government has poured cold water on the possibility of allowing safe standing areas within Premier League football grounds, claiming that it “remains unconvinced” ... More

Sport and physical activity participation targets for the next three years will be published by Sport England in April, according to Sporting Future’s first annual ... More

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is on the hunt for a new chair for UK Sport to replace the outgoing Rod Carr. ... More

The number of people working in the sport sector has surged by almost 10 per cent since London 2012, according to government statistics. In 2015, ... More

A year on from delivering the first real piece of sporting policy in a decade, sports minister Tracey Crouch has challenged the sector to grow ... More

The government department responsible for publishing UK Sports Governance Code – which has thrown the diversity of sports boards into the limelight – has enlisted ... More