Sports Boost Brings Schools and Local Communities Closer

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Imagine a place where most schools have the latest sports facilities which benefit the whole community as well as pupils; where most people or local teams have easy access to a pitch or pool; a place where 'run down' sports facilities and equipment are fast becoming a thing of the past.

Thanks to a pounds 48.5m funding programme from the Big Lottery Fund, which aims to improve PE and sporting facilities for young people and their local communities, that place is looking more and more like Wales.

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Sports Boost Brings Schools and Local Communities Closer

Since its launch in November 2001, the New Opportunities for PE and Sport in Schools Programme - the single largest lottery investment in education to come to Wales - has awarded pounds 35.6m to 119 projects across the country.

'This lottery money is playing a v...

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