Exercising more is the most common New Year’s resolution*, and the UK Government is giving hundreds of thousands more people across the UK the ability to keep their resolution and get active by delivering high-quality grassroots facilities.
From Bangor to Carmarthen, 64 projects will receive funding for everything from changing rooms and pavilions, to a state of the art 3G artificial grass pitches and brand new floodlights. Work is already underway on 63 of these projects, with the final one to commence from spring.
The projects announced today will benefit from £4 million from the UK Government in 2023/24, with £300,000 already allocated from next year’s overall budget.
Since 2021, the UK Government has delivered 60 facility projects across Wales through £2.5 million of funding, with at least 50 per cent of investment to be spent in local authorities with high deprivation and low activity levels.
Since 2021, the UK Government has delivered 60 facility projects across Wales through £2.5 million of funding, with at least 50 per cent of investment to be spent in local authorities with high deprivation and low activity levels.
Since 2021 the UK Government has used £1.3 million of funding to deliver 54 projects across Northern Ireland, with at least 50 per cent of investment to be spent in the most deprived and inactive local authorities.
Since 2021, the UK Government has delivered new facilities or improvements at almost 2,400 sites across the UK with the aim of getting at least 120,000 more people to get active, through its £325 million programme. This investment is supporting grassroots clubs up and down the country, including women’s and girls teams.
The Government’s multi-sport grassroots facilities programme is investing in areas that are most in need of new or renovated facilities. Through the programme more high quality facilities are being made available for people to play football, rugby and other grassroots sports.
The UK Government recently published its new sport strategy to get 2.5 million more adults and one million more young people meeting the Chief Medical Officer’s guidance of 150 minutes per week for adults, and 60 minutes per day for young people by 2030.
To help reach this target, the projects being confirmed today are part of the Government’s unprecedented investment of over £400 million in grassroots facilities, including park tennis courts and swimming pools.
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