Home nations receive millions of funding for grassroots
More than 1,100 grassroots sports projects across the UK will benefit from a further £93m investment that aims to get more people active.
The funding is part of £400m government investment in grassroots facilities, including multisport pitches, tennis courts and swimming pools.
All across the UK, projects are receiving funding that will go towards facilities such as changing rooms, 3G artificial grass pitches, goalposts and floodlights, improving access to sport and physical activity for local communities.
Government has invested £81m so far in England, with 900 projects under way with the help of the Premier League and FA.
Local communities across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also benefit with £12m being invested by the UK Government in 2023/24, delivered in partnership with the Scottish FA, the Irish FA, Cymru Football Foundation and Football Association of Wales.
A further £9m is also being committed across the home nations for projects to be delivered through 2024-25.
In Scotland, the funding will deliver over 20 artificial grass pitch projects and four grass pitch projects. In Wales, eight projects will get new changing rooms, while 12 projects in Northern Ireland are set to benefit from floodlighting.
Ministers recently published the sport strategy to get 2.5m more adults and one million more young people meeting the chief medical officer’s guidance of 150 minutes of exercise per week for adults, and 60 minutes per day for young people by 2030.
To help reach this target, the funding announced in late January is part of the government’s unprecedented investment of over £400m in grassroots facilities, including park tennis courts and swimming pools.
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