sports authority

• Sports Grounds Safety Authority Act 2011

• The Sports Grounds Safety Authority Act 2011 (Commencement) Order 2011

• The Big Ticket Society

RENTS for local authority sports pitches, community centres and leisure facilities have been creeping up. When a small charity is just managing to keep the wolf from the door rate hikes bite fast and hard. Active Life Club, an organisation based in Glasgow's deprived Govanhill, is already feeling the pinch. The club has encouraged a generation of kids to take part in free sport. They rent a pitch at the nearby Holyrood Sports Centre but prices shot up, literally overnight, by 58%. Organiser Raza Sadiq has had to drop two cricket coaching hours and one football hour. "I don't know how long we are going to survive," he says.

• The Herald
• April 15, 2011

• Wimbledon Tennis Fever Hits Bristol

It happens every summer - fans gripped by Wimbledon fever flood onto tennis courts up and down the country inspired by their sporting heroes. As their idols battle it out on the grass in SW19 for a fortnight, tennis clubs, sports centres and local authority courts are graced by a new army of players turned on to the game by the tournament.

• Evening Post (Bristol, UK)
• July 02, 2009

• Fresh Look at Centre's Future After Claims of 'Secret Deals'

THE city council's decision to hand over the running of a leisure centre to a community group will be looked at again amid claims the public was not properly consulted. The authority's cabinet decided at its last meeting on February 15 to transfer Shaftesbury Sports Centre to a community group's control as long as it came up with a suitable business plan.

• Derby Evening Telegraph
• February 25, 2011

• Revamp Pledge ; Improvement Plans Are Unclear

LONG-suffering residents of a former steel town have been promised major regeneration work and new sports facilities. But local authority Durham County Council has yet to specify what is planned for Consett.

• Evening Chronicle
• November 20, 2009

• Boxing Club May Take On Leisure Centre

A BOXING club looks to be on the verge of taking over the running of a leisure centre from Derby City Council, raising concerns it will fail to cater for the wider public. The authority's cabinet last night agreed it would hand over control of Shaftesbury Sports Centre to a "community group".

• Derby Evening Telegraph
• February 16, 2011

• Trophy Is Just a Cash Cow As Icc Milk Sub-Continent ; Business of Sport There Should Be No Hybrid Version of the World Cup, Argues Peter Sharkey

In few sports would a world governing authority effectively sanction the scheduling of two major and competing events within six months of each other. Imagine, for example, the level of opprobrium that would be heaped upon either Fifa or the International Rugby Board if either body elected to host a 'World Cup of Nations' comprising every team from the world's leading football- or rugby-playing nations six months before the real thing.

• Birmingham Post
• October 14, 2006

• Back Mpounds ; Roy Wants Owners to Splash Cash

ROY HODGSON has called on Liverpool's owners to back him during this month's transfer window as the under-pressure manager aims to stamp his authority on the team. The January sales represent the first opportunity for Fenway Sports Group, led by owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner, to flex their financial muscle since completing their pounds 300m Continued on Page 42

• Daily Post
• January 04, 2011

• Get Fit with New City Running Groups

PLYMOUTH City Council has launched a series of new running groups and is encouraging local people to sign up, get outside and get active. The authority's sports development unit has teamed up with the Women's Running Network and Run in England to offer groups for all abilities, from complete beginners to advanced level runners.

• Plymouth Evening Herald, The
• February 16, 2011