Richard Lewis' future and RL's funding

[RP London]

Dont ask why i was on the British Baseball site but saw this article:

Merge UK Sport and Sport England

so where would this leave the fundung RL has been getting for grass roots and where would it leave Mr Lewis re hs job there?

[bowes]

Look who's top of AA North, Bolton Robots of Doom legendary name.

But on topic not sure how this will effect us. Seems a logical merger I was worried when I first heard rumours of Sport England going. We may lose out as a non-Olympic sport but can't see funding restricted to Olympic events as not just us but also cricket would lose out. The Sport England money is doing us a lot of good in the midlands (along with the hard work of volunteers of course) and sure it is elsewhere too.

[Keith T]

Look who's top of AA North, Bolton Robots of Doom legendary name.

But on topic not sure how this will effect us. Seems a logical merger I was worried when I first heard rumours of Sport England going. We may lose out as a non-Olympic sport but can't see funding restricted to Olympic events as not just us but also cricket would lose out. The Sport England money is doing us a lot of good in the midlands (along with the hard work of volunteers of course) and sure it is elsewhere too.

Sport England is not doing the job it should be doing for ALL sports. Ten identified sports such as soccer, RL, RU, cricket, athletics, tennis, swimming, (is polo one?) etc, are doing alright but lesser sports are missing out. I attended a funding fair a few months a go and the facilitator for the lettery workshop was telling us that for sports outside the top 10 selected by Sport England it was a waste of time looking at them for funding until after the 2012 Olympics!!!!!!!!

[Northern Sol]

Dont ask why i was on the British Baseball site but saw this article:

Merge UK Sport and Sport England

so where would this leave the fundung RL has been getting for grass roots and where would it leave Mr Lewis re hs job there?

I have read the article but this sounds like nonsense. The UK and England are obviously two different things and I can't see how these two could be merged. Where would that leave Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland for one thing?

[hindle xiii]

It doesn't mention Richard Lewis...

[Methven Hornet]

I have read the article but this sounds like nonsense. The UK and England are obviously two different things and I can't see how these two could be merged. Where would that leave Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland for one thing?

Further down the page is the following quote:-

"Proposals are being developed to bring UK Sport, Sport England and Youth Sport Trust under one roof while maintaining their separate roles and responsibilities."

So the merged entity will continue to do what it does now, that is, it will deal with the elite parts of UK sport where we participate as a combined nation, but it will control sports development in England, ie I would expect the regions of Sport England to continue to function. The savings will come from merging the central administrations of both bodies.

The equivalent bodies in the other three nations will continue to control development (depending on decisions made in the devolved administrations) and have input into the merged body as and when necessary.

In itself the merger needn't be that significant and probably could have happened in normal times without having any impact. The real pointer to changed times in sports development is part of another quote further down the page:-

"The new government has moved away from the adult physical activity agenda of two million more adults doing more sport...".

Isn't that why RL is getting the

[West Country Eagle]

The RFL recently appointed Ralph Rimmer as CEO.

Hmm.

[TBC]

The RFL recently appointed Ralph Rimmer as CEO.

Hmm.

Mergers R Us?

[thecoffeeman]

The RFL recently appointed Ralph Rimmer as CEO.

Hmm.

Sorry to correct you but they didn't.

Ralph is COO - Chief Operating Officer, - Tanker remains as CEO.

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[BringbackGB]

This is the one decent idea that the coalition have come up with. Hopefully resources can now be utilized to develop RL throughout the UK.

[RP London]

(Or fundung as RPL would have it. Won't have as much impact as money but sounds fun - and it will make the grass grow!)

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