Sport: Sports Clubs

House of Lords written question – answered at on 27 October 2011.

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Photo of Lord Pendry Lord Pendry Labour

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to reverse the decline in adult membership of sports clubs.

Photo of Baroness Garden of Frognal Baroness Garden of Frognal Lords Spokesperson (Department for Culture, Media and Sport), Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Sport England's £136 million Olympic Legacy Programme-Places People Play-will provide the landscape for sports clubs to thrive through improving up to 1,000 local sport club facilities, protecting and improving playing fields, and a new initiative to support disability sport. The programme will recruit 40,000 new community sports volunteers to involve more people in sport.

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