Spirit of 2012 news

Community-based sport and physical activity projects in Scotland are in line for a cash investment thanks to a new programme aimed at changing lives and ... More

Funding charity Spirit of 2012 has appointed Alan Coppin as chair. He replaces Dugald Mackie after a four-and-half year stint. Spirit of 2012 was established ... More

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded the National Paralympic Heritage Trust £1m (US$1.3m, €1.1m) to establish a heritage centre in the UK chronicling the ... More

The charitable foundation set up to maintain the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics will plough £1.8m (US$2.2m, €2.1m) into an initiative aiming to improve ... More

English rugby legend Maggie Alphonsi has been appointed as an ambassador for the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) Spirit of Rugby participation legacy project. Alphonsi retired ... More

A consortium headed up by the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) has bagged a £4.5m (US$6.4m, €5.9m) grant to get people active across 18 ... More

A new £800,000 fund has been created to get Scotland’s least active people moving as part of the legacy of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. ... More

Physical activity sector representative body ukactive has reported a strong set of annual financial figures, with turnover increasing by £2.3m and profits up 123 per ... More

Approximately 7,500 trained sports leaders helped over 61,000 young people run, jump, skip and dance their way to activity participation this summer as part of ... More

Sports charity StreetGames will create 200 Pop Up Clubs during the summer that will enable disadvantaged young people to get involved in sport. The nationwide ... More

A new community sport initiative will look to train up 50,000 young people as sport leaders, as part of efforts to increase the number of ... More

The Big Lottery Fund is to invest £5.3m in four UK-wide initiatives designed to inspire more than two million people to get more active. The ... More