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The Government will join forces with former sports stars, health professionals and fitness experts to help an additional 3.5 million adults and children get physically active by 2030, as part of a major national activity drive.
Home Office approved Sports Governing Bodies for International Sportsperson applications.
The Tribunal Procedure Committee (TPC) is interested in your views as to potential changes to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber Rules and the Upper Tribunal Rules arising from the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (NBA) and the New Plan for...
Multimillion pound support for Women’s football, netball, badminton and basketball, plus 250,000 free Covid-19 testing kits
Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment of Gavin Mansfield (Deputy Judge of the High Court) on 04 February 2020.
UK's Chief Medical Officers publish first ever guidelines on physical activity for disabled children and young people.
More than 3,000 young people will be given places at sport and activity programmes this summer, thanks to £400,000 of National Lottery funding from Sport England
Students in the state school system deserve the same opportunities to excel at competitive sport as those in the independent sector
Government will work with sports organisations such as the Premier League and basketball, boxing and cycling bodies to increase sports activity in youth crime hot spots
The team will join 16 other nations at the international event for wounded, injured and sick military personnel and veterans.
Employment Tribunal decision.
Sport England and UK Sport agree package to fund British Basketball teams and help talent development in the sport
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
A Royal Navy lieutenant will be making her debut with the Great Britain Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team at the championships in Germany.
Four areas have been awarded funding to get thousands of people involved in sport.
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