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Tories offer £300m for spectator sport but only a fraction for grassroots
Budget offers £25m for local football facilities, but funding for other community sports unclear
THE government confirmed its new £300 million recovery package for major spectator sports in England today, but set aside only £25m for grassroots facilities — funds which did not appear to extend beyond football.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget states that the recovery package, likely to be paid out as a mix of loans and grants, is designed to help “major spectator sports in England, supporting clubs and governing bodies.”
Under the section of the Budget titled Celebrating the United Kingdom – measures meant to reflect “the shared values, culture and institutions that make up the union” – there is listed “an investment of £25m in UK grassroots community sports facilities, supporting the future of grassroots football.”
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