Independent decision-making Board for Sports Winter Survival Package confirmed
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 12:04
Following the Government’s announcement of a £300 million Sports
Winter Survival Package to protect the immediate futures of major
spectator sports affected by coronavirus restrictions in England,
the composition of the independent decision-making Board has been
confirmed. The Board, which will meet over the coming weeks to
oversee final funding allocations with the administrative support
of Sport England, will be formed of:...Request free trial
Following the Government’s announcement of a £300
million Sports Winter Survival Package to protect the immediate
futures of major spectator sports affected by coronavirus
restrictions in England, the composition of the independent
decision-making Board has been confirmed.
The Board, which will meet over the coming weeks to oversee
final funding allocations with the administrative support
of Sport England, will be formed of:
- Sir Ian Cheshire (Chair), Chairman of Barclays Bank UK
PLC
-
, Chairman of Social Work England
- Denise Lewis, OBE, British sports presenter and Olympic
heptathlon gold medalist
-
CBE,
non-executive board member of the Department for
Education and member of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth
Games Organising Committee
- Ben Dean, Director of Sport, Gambling and Ceremonials,
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
- Tim Hollingsworth, OBE, Chief Executive, Sport England
- Sally Munday MBE, Chief Executive, UK Sport
- Natalie Ceeney CBE, Vice-Chair of Sport England and
chair of Innovate Finance
Preliminary allocations announced by the
Government last month have been made on a needs based
assessment basis and reflect the submissions made to DCMS
from the individual sports.
Each sport will now need to go through an application
process to access the support they are eligible for under
the final design of the scheme, with the final decisions
being made by the independent decision-making board. More
details will be announced by Sport England in due course.
It is expected that the first tranche of funding will be
distributed in the coming weeks.
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