Unit 1 – AO4

Describe the aims of three

national organisations involved in
the development of sport

Joseph Holland
UK SPORT
UK Sport works in partnership to lead
sport in the UK to world-class
success 
• Established by Royal Charter in 1997
• Based in London
• Invests around £100 million of public funds
each year
• They are funded by the National Lottery,
receiving 25p from every £1 spent on the
lottery.
• Governs drugs testing of athletes in the
UK on a regular basis
• They work with other sporting bodies to
make sure the quality of coaches are to
their full potential.
• UK Sport try to get more people involved
in physical exercise ahead of London
2012.
 Money
By the start of London 2012, UK Sport will have
received £1,835,000,000 (1 Billion, 825 million
pounds) from the National Lottery funding which
will support the Olympic and Paralympic games.

This funding will go towards the construction of

the 2012 venues and also the construction of top
training facilities such as the Aquatic Centre and
VeloPark. It will also be used to prepare the
athletes for the games with top class equipment
and technology.
VeloPark
During London 2012 the Velodrome will
host Track Cycling and Paralympic
Track Cycling.  It will have a capacity
for 6,000 - with 3,500 seats around the
track and a further 2500 seats in two
upper tiers.
Aquatics Centre
During the London 2012 Games it will
be the venue for Diving, Swimming,
Synchronised Swimming, Paralympic
Swimming and the Modern
Pentathlon and will have a capacity of
17,500.
 3 Stages to Success
• Talent – starting at the grass roots. Youngsters and athletes
at a low level who show the potential to be an Olympic
standard athlete are picked up and given a heads up on their
performance.

• Development – taking those athletes whose performances

have suggested that they have realistic medal winning
capabilities for 2012 and offering them the high class training
facilities so they can progress.

• Podium - supporting athletes with realistic medal winning

capabilities at the next Olympic/Paralympic Games (i.e. a
maximum of four years away from the podium) 
• Over 7,000 individuals from the Great British
public have applied to take part in talent
identification programs such as Pitch2Podium to
identify athletes with elite sporting potential.
• As a result, over 50 athletes new to the high
performance system are now on Olympic
development programmes, working towards
success in London 2012, Sochi 2014 (Winter
Olympics) and beyond.
 Pitch2Podium
The aim of the programme is to provide young football and rugby players who
have been unsuccessful in securing a professional contract, with a second
chance opportunity to succeed in a new Olympic sport.

• Athletes who have benefited from making the switch are as follows:

• Darren Campbell: Having played for Plymouth Argyle, returned to athletics in

1995 going on to win Olympic gold.
• Kévin Sireau: a French youth football player who swapped to track cycling and
won an Olympic silver medal in Beijing.
• David Price: released by Liverpool FC and
switched his efforts to boxing, going on to
win Olympic bronze.
• Sir Steve Redgrave: Britain’s greatest ever
Olympian profited from an early involvement
in rugby before turning to rowing.
SPORT COUNCIL of WALES
(SPORT WALES)
• Sport Wales is the main adviser on sporting
matters to the Welsh Assembly Government
• They are responsible for distributing funds from
the National Lottery to sport in Wales.  
• Sports Council for Wales’ main focus is to
persuade people who take little or no exercise to
become more active and to encourage people,
young and old, to take part in a range of physical
activities to improve their health and fitness. 
• Sport Wales’ main focus is to increase the
number of people taking part in sport and
physical activity. Their main priorities are:
• active young people
• active communities
• developing people
• developing places
• developing performance and excellence
 There are three main areas of Sport Wales used
to introduce physical activity to young people.

Sport in Schools

Dragon Sport

5 x 60
 5x60
• 5x60 was launched October 2006 with 27
schools in Wales.
• The Sports Council report that 98% of
Wales's mainstream secondary
schools have now signed up to the 5x60
scheme.
• Dragon sport is aimed at
children aged 7-11
• Used in primary schools
• Supports 7 sports…
Football, Rugby, Hockey,
Netball, Golf, Tennis and
Athletics
 Sport in Schools
• Includes extra curricular activities such as
football and rugby teams in schools.
• Sport in schools is a scheme which has
been put in place to allow children of all
ages and ability to start sport at a young
age.
 Free Swimming
• There are local schemes in place to allow
people of all ages to become more active
by taking part in swimming.
• In most places at certain times over 60’s
can swim for free.
• They also offer swimming lessons to
improve technique or to just keep fit.
Disability Sport Wales (FDSW)
 The Disability Sport Wales National
Development Programme is a joint
initiative between the Sports   Council for
Wales, the Federation of Disability Sport
Wales and the 22 local authorities across
Wales.
The Federation of Disability Sport Wales
(FDSW) is a pan-disability sport
organisation which aims to provide and
promote quality sporting and physical
activity opportunities for disabled people
within Wales.
• The scheme is aimed at developing quality
community based sporting and
recreational opportunities for disabled
people throughout Wales.
• The programme is promoted and delivered
through a network of Disability
Sport Wales Development Officers located
across every Local Authority in Wales.
 Disability Sport Wales aims to:
• Create new clubs and give professional advice and
support to improve existing clubs.
• Increase the number of disabled people who actively
participate in sports clubs, groups and sessions.
• Improve the quality and number of coaches and
volunteers within disability sport through coach education
and other systems
• Create new and further develop existing opportunities for
disabled people to compete in sport at local, regional and
national level.
 Here are some photos of local disabled
children who have taken part in sport.

Here is a young girl with down Swansea City Bravehearts This woman has lost
syndrome practicing her skiing is a football team for ability to use her legs,
on the dry slope in Cardiff. disabled children, mentally but can still take part in
or physically. exercise activities.
 Swansea City Bravehearts
• Bravehearts is aimed at disabled children
in and around the Swansea area.
• It a football club for children aged 11-17 of
all abilities.
• Gary Richards has been involved with the
club from its beginning in 2000.
 The types of disabilities that some of these children
have are as follows, yet still are able to carry out
exercise activities:
• Behavioural Difficulties,
• Cerebral Palsy,
• Deaf/Hard of Hearing,
• Learning Disability,
• Pan Disability,
• Physical Disability (ambulant),
• Visually Impaired
 Bibliography
•The websites I have used for this presentation
are listed below:
• http://www.hoetkd.co.uk/aboutus.html
• http://www.countrysiderecreation.org.uk/images/sponser-logos/SportWales.jpg
• http://www.britishdressage.co.uk/about_us/sponsorship_links
• http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/82543344.jpg?
v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789215ABF3343C02EA5484B15CDF3419E036A65EE834E23EB2ED0
5D52357C192FB3DDE30A760B0D811297
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/team_gb/7579871.stm
• http://www.olympiclotterydistributor.org.uk/docs/faqs.php?id=6:10:0:0
• http://www.olympiclotterydistributor.org.uk/docs/project.php?id=3:3:63:0
• http://www.olympiclotterydistributor.org.uk/docs/project.php?id=3:3:20:0
• http://www.uksport.gov.uk/pages/wc-performance-programme/
• http://www.uksport.gov.uk/pages/pitch2podium/
• http://www.lotteryfunding.org.uk/wales/sports-council-wales
• http://www.llangatwg.org.uk/sports/images/5x60.jpg
• http://www.01495info.com/images/dragon%20sports.JPG?width=400
• http://www.hapton.lancsngfl.ac.uk/images/library/extra%20curricular.JPG
• http://wales.gov.uk/topics/cultureandsport/sportandactiverecreation/5x60prog?lang=en
• http://www.welshicons.org.uk/news/wp-content/plugins/image-
shadow/cache/11cfa345cea588ab43016030181f12c2.jpg
• http://www.disability-sport-wales.org/aboutus.html
• http://www.sirgaerfyrddin.gov.uk/English/leisure/SportsDevelopment/PublishingImages/disability-sports-wales.gif
• http://www.disabilitysportwales.org/images/44.gif
• http://beehive.thisissouthwales.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=11525&PageID=76944
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welsh_Institute_of_Sport.jpg