Carál Ní Chuilín: ...coaches will be present. Initial contacts have been made with a number of African countries. It is hoped that existing contacts will be developed and a Pre Games Event will be secured. Hockey SportNI have had discussions with Lisnagarvey Hockey Club regarding attracting a team to play an exhibition game in Lisburn. The qualifying competition for 2012 has not yet been completed. Sailing The...
Alok Sharma: ...Her Majesty the Queen’s diamond jubilee—for Reading to be granted city status. When it comes to sporting, cultural and retail facilities, Reading leads the way. We have a premiership football club in Reading FC, which temporarily finds itself in the championship. The club’s home, Madejski stadium, is a modern facility of which any city would be proud. Reading football club is a...
Nicholas Dakin: I congratulate Merseyside on being top of the league. In Scunthorpe, the local speedway group and the local rugby union club are also covered and celebrated. Indeed, as a college principal, I often saw the college netball team and the college hockey team covered as well. Also in my role as college principal, I saw how important it was to have local radio to communicate to people, during the...
Baroness Massey of Darwen: .... She and I met years ago on a cricket pitch-Lancashire v Warwickshire-and I have admired her sporting achievements for years. She is involved not only in international cricket but in international hockey, and she is a keen golfer and squash player. She is vice-president of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, a board member of the England and Wales Cricket Board-one of the first two...
Baroness Garden of Frognal: ...and creativity in providing sports that meet the needs and skills of all children, the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, who referred to the importance of variety in sport-it does not all have to be hockey or lacrosse-and of course the noble Baroness, Lady Massey, as well as other noble Lords. The previous Government's strategy for school sport relied on a centrally determined infrastructure...
Jenny Chapman: ...is that without the innovation and expertise offered by school sport partnerships, the most able, motivated and enthusiastic young people will, quite rightly, be given the opportunity to play hockey, netball, athletics and basketball for their house and their school, but the rest will be left with the excuse of concluding that sport just is not for them. School sport partnerships and...
Lord Addington: ...night. We like to talk about ourselves in select groups. Having got that off my chest, I would like to talk about the bedrock of our sporting culture-that is, the volunteer and the volunteer-run clubs of this country. In Britain particularly, we have a tradition of clubs that get their own grounds, organise themselves on a volunteer basis and generate their own funds. They do not make...
Margo MacDonald: ...all about beating health targets—we must ensure that people enjoy it. That is what I told Christine Grahame when she said that she was put off the idea of sport when she had to run around a cold hockey field with her big blue knickers on. Now she does not need to do that—she can buy a nice wee skirt. The cross-party group on sport has been able to influence some members; in part, that...
Lord Rosser: ...date show that 177,000 young people have completed courses since the launch of the scheme, and the three-year programme aims to get 300,000 of the participants to go on to play regular sport in a club. One of the big challenges for Sport England is tackling the drop-off in sports participation when people leave school. Links have to be further developed between clubs and schools, as young...
Gerry Sutcliffe: .... Award date Parliamentary constituency Recipient Project description Total award (£) 20 October 1999 Cambridgeshire North West Peterborough Area Canoeists and Kayakers Club Award will enable members to go on essential coaching and safety courses they will then use the skills and qualifications acquired to provide training in canoeing to other clubs and non sporting...
Nelson McCausland: ...is consistent with the aims of a shared and better future. People across Northern Ireland enjoy participating in a wide range of field sports, including football, Gaelic football, rugby, hurling, hockey and cricket, to name but a few, and sport enriches the lives of the participants. The vast majority of the adults and young people participating in such sports do so as sportsmen and...
Elizabeth Smith: ...about the lack of activities that are undertaken because of pleasure rather than because of competition, especially in schools. Gone are the days of compelling virtually all schoolgirls to play hockey and all schoolboys to play football or rugby. I was never one to worry about unfashionable kit or freezing cold winters spoiling my hockey, but I do not want us to return to those days. That...
Siôn Simon: ...Association 4,980 12 April 2004 South Ribble and Chorley New Media Association 5,000 12 April 2004 Sea Cadet Corps: Chorley Unit 526 1,050 12 April 2004 Croston Junior Football Club 4,361 20 April 2004 Heroes Return Award to an individual 875 5 May 2004 Heroes Return Award to an individual 525 11 May 2004 Brothers of Charity ‘Friends of Thursday’...
Gerry Sutcliffe: I hope the local authority will support its local sports clubs. Whether it is cricket, football, rugby or hockey, the role of the local sports club in our communities is vital. Clubs do work that is usually unpaid and usually done by volunteers, but the impact on our communities is large. The amount of vandalism we see in many sports fields and clubs is regrettable. Sometimes, volunteers are...
Gerry Sutcliffe: ...Athletics 90 91 92 93 93 Badminton 31 32 35 37 39 Basketball 65 63 67 69 69 Cricket 85 85 89 90 90 Cycling 21 27 34 42 46 Gymnastics 94 93 95 95 94 Hockey 77 74 77 78 77 Netball 84 81 81 81 81 Rugby League (inc tag rugby) 12 11 12 (1)33 34 Rugby Union (inc Tag Rugby) 67 71 74 66 68 Squash 5 5 6 7 7 ...
Tessa Jowell: ...Tennis Centre Tennis Wheelchair Tennis 5. Corby East Midlands International Swimming Pool Aquatics—Swimming Paralympic Swimming 6. Derbyshire County Cricket Club Gateway Centre Archery — 7. East Midlands Gymnastics Centre Gymnastics—Artistic — 8. Highfields Sports Club Hockey — 9. Laughton Manor...
Bob Ainsworth: ...Adidas Age Concern Bucks Aid for Aid Aircrew Association Alliotts Accountants Ambulance Service AMS Facilities Management APPSS Archive Acumen Aylesbury Canine Training Society Aylesbury Disabled Club Aylesbury Grammar School Aylesbury Hockey Club Aylesbury Rugby Club Aylesbury Schools Aylesbury Swimming Club Aylesbury Table Tennis Club Aylesbury Town FC Aylesbury United Aylesbury Vale...
Bill Rammell: ...to the financial support provided for training by the sport. Regretfully, lower levels of qualified staff are found in other major sports such as tennis, rugby, cricket, football, horseracing and hockey. There are a number of potential reasons for this lower investment: the lack of priority by some sports governing bodies to ensure training of grounds staff. Too frequently, there are no...
Baroness Ashton of Upholland: ...on all the issues about why girls do not participate. I agree about diversity of provision in schools and opportunities for young girls to have the chance to do dance, aerobics, table tennis, hockey or anything else that they wish. That is true for young people in general. When I was responsible for school sports, I used to say that I thought that we could make them dress better for sport....
Stewart Maxwell: The provision of local services and facilities is the responsibility for Aberdeen City Council to address. Aberdeen City Council is discussing a new grant stream to support displaced clubs. Clubs can bid into this for travel costs to other ice rinks. It is understood that the ice hockey and skating clubs are exploring options to travel together to Dundee.
