Since 2010 that the British government allocates millions of pounds for training sports culture of the students. Maria Miller, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport of the British government, proposed and obtained an investment of 17 million pounds for the full refining (over five years) school sports. It will create 150 jobs for full-time professionals to be included in this program, which will be called “College Sport Makers”, which will help young people to develop stable sport attitudes. The interest, therefore, is entirely focused on youth sports, knowing that the equipments and infrastructures, build in London for the Olympics and the Paralympics, are a huge advantage to be exploited for students. The investment will be provided by the National Lottery.
“Too many children – says Richard Lewis, Chair of Sport England – drop out of sport when they leave school, as it gets squeezed by competing demands like studying, work and relationships. We want College Sport Makers to remind young people how much fun sport is and to help them build it into their schedules so they develop a sporting habit for life.”
In addition to this investment of 17 million pounds, for sports training, there will be a fund of 3 million pounds, which will be available in the form of small grants to colleges to pay for new equipments or transports. The initiative will be funded for a total of £ 1 billion reserved for Sport England for the next five years.
From: http://www.sportengland.org/about_us/our_news/college_makers.aspx
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