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The Rugby Football Union is the national governing body for grassroots and elite rugby in England, with 2,000 autonomous rugby clubs in its membership.

Roles include:
- Organising rugby activity, including the playing, coaching and refereeing of matches and recreational rugby at all levels
- Supporting the volunteer workforce
- Working with clubs to secure grants and loans for facilities
- Fundraising, handling money and insurance
- Offering medical advice and support
- Committee member/trustee
- Secretarial, administration and clerical help
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-          They are the national organisation responsible for developing and promoting sport and physical activity in Wales.

-          The main adviser on sporting matters to the Welsh Government and are responsible for distributing National Lottery funds to both elite and grassroots sport in Wales.

-          They fully subscribe to the Welsh Government's vision for a physically active and sporting nation, as outlined in their strategies Climbing Higher and Creating an Active Wales.

They want to in the future to better deliver on the Welsh Government's sport and physical activity agenda; inspiring, developing and delivering positive experiences for all. They still focused on getting more people, more active, more often, and on Wales securing enviable sporting success on the world stage.

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Sport England is a non profitable organisation. non-departmental public body under the department for culture media and sport Its role is to build the foundations of a community sport system by working with national governing bodies of sport, and other funded partners, to grow the number of people doing sport; sustain participation levels; and help more talented people from all diverse backgrounds excel by identifying them early, nurturing them, and helping them move up to the elite level. Sport England is organised into nine regions. Following restructuring in 2009, its former Regional Sports Boards have been disbanded and regional staffing considerably reduced. Closer working with the sports national governing bodies (NGBs) is key to its new strategy to achieve its target of one million people doing more sport by 2012-13. Sport England is headquartered in Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square in London. It is encouraging sports venues to enhance their development potential by registering under Sport England's SASP (significant areas for sport) programme as either a National or Regional centre for their particular sport.

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- Develops grass roots athletics in England

- Supports affiliated clubs to develop performance and recruit more and better coaches

- Supports volunteers and officials.

- Provides and supports competition opportunities at an international, national, area and county level.
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(English cricket board)
(Amateur boxing association)

The Amateur boxing association in England represents more than 19000 members across over 900 affiliated clubs. The ABA deals with administration, development and promotion of Olympic-style boxing throughout England. It is a non-profit organisation that is dealt with by a board of directors.

The English cricket board was founded in January 1, 1997.

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Central Council for Physical Recreation (Now known as The Sport and Recreation Alliance)

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Central Council for Physical Recreation (Now known as The Sport and Recreation Alliance)

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Core Functions and Objectives:
Lead - To be trusted and valued thought leader among all stakeholders in the sport and recreation sector.
Champion - To be the acknowledged, independent champion of the interests of out members and the sector as a whole.
Enable - To be a provider of high quality, added value services to our members by developing and sharing knowledge and expertise, and delivering world class programs and services.
Perform - To be a high performing organisation which embodies best practice in governance and leadership.

This is the main body for sport and recreation in the UK. It represents over 320 member organisations.
Its members range from: The Football Association and the Rugby Football Union to much smaller members such as Stoolball or Kitesurfing.

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The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The organisation was founded in 1888 and seven-time Wimbledon champion William Renshaw was elected as its first president.
As the governing body, the LTA’s overall purpose is to grow and sustain the sport. The success of British tennis is tracked by five headline measures of success: 1. Number of members of registered places to play 2. Number of British tennis members 3. Number of regularly competing juniors 4. Number of International A Matrix juniors 5. Number of players in the top 100. These measures of success gives a regular snapshot of the impact of work the LTA does and helps the organisation understand through trends the progress over a long period of time. The LTA’s focus is to develop participation growth to help more people play tennis. The approach to growing participation is based on investment in four main areaswhich is a great way.

The FA
The Football Association, also known simply as The FA, is the governing body of association football in England, and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory.
The FA is a member of both UEFA and FIFA and holds a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board (IFAB) which is responsible for the laws of the game. As the first football association, it does not use the national name "English" in its title. The FA is based at Wembley Stadium, London. The FA is a member of the British Olympic Association, meaning that the FA has control over the men's and women's Great Britain Olympic football team.

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EIS consultants help coaches and performance directors to improve the performance of their athletes by delivering services which enables them to  enhance training programmes, maximise performance in competitions and improve the health and well being.
This is the country's largest provider of sport science, medicine and technology, the EIS also provides a range of added-value benefits to the sports we work with including world-class performance environments and access to cutting edge innovation and research.
The EIS is a grant funded organisation through UK Sport with Olympic and Paralympic sports engaging with the EIS through their World Class Programme funding from UK Sport and English and professional sports through their Sport England and/or funding bodies.
Since the inception of the EIS in 2002, it has worked with sports leading up to and during Olympic and Paralympic Games, Commonwealth Games and many National, European and World events in sport.

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department of culture, media and sports: last December they held their first charity day. they strive in wanting to make Britain the worlds most creative and exciting place to live. they promote our heritage to develop business and communities by making other people see how interesting it is to live. their main priorities are: growing the economy,connecting the UK,encouraging participation,sustaining excellence and promoting Britain,supporting our media &ensuring social responsibility. 

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department of culture, media and sports: last December they held their first charity day. they strive in wanting to make Britain the worlds most creative and exciting place to live. they promote our heritage to develop business and communities by making other people see how interesting it is to live. their main priorities are: growing the economy,connecting the UK,encouraging participation,sustaining excellence and promoting Britain,supporting our media &ensuring social responsibility. 

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They have 380 employees in the DCMS, but most of the work carried out for us for is done out by the 43 public bodies that work with them.
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They are the leading technical coaching agency in the UK established over 30 years ago. They provide free sessions, e modules and workshops for many organisations due to the fact the program has been giving a charitable status.

They support 46 national sporting governing bodies as well as 44 local sports councils, aiming to provide research and new knowledge for coaches wishing to branch out and or improve themselves when it comes to teaching others within UK sport. They also work with three local councils in Scotland.

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Established in September 1998 the EFDS has a number of initiatives and programmes such as Get Out Get Active (GOGA) is a a new programme that supports disabled and non-disabled people to enjoy being active together. Funded by Spirit of 2012, all partners are focused on getting some of the UK's least active people moving more through fun and inclusive activities. EFDS has a team of Advisors to support local and national work. The Engagement Advisors cover nine regions across England. Along with our National Advisors, they support key strategic partners, including County Sports Partnerships  and National Governing Bodies of Sport. Their work helps these partners to be more effective in enabling more disabled people to be more active in sport and physical activity. The team has five main areas of work:
Improving routes to market: We support the disability and sports sectors to increase their connections with disabled people, charities, local disability sports groups and third sector disability support agencies etc. By creating resources that identify key contact points, we provide the expertise to reach more disabled people.
Create and support networks: We organise and chair national briefing sessions as well as regional disability sport and physical activity forums.
Facilitate joint approaches: We develop national and regional engagement days for the sport and non-sport (disability) sector.
Providing strategic support: We work with the sport and non-sport (disability) sectors and offer resources, workshops and awareness of opportunities.
Self-assessment and improvement: We develop and deliver the LEAD (Leading Equitable and Accessible Delivery) self-assessment improvement toolkit. This is designed to help sports sector partners to become more effective in delivering sport with disabled people and organisations.

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This is an national agency for sport in Scotland. This agency has many beliefs these include promoting equality and respect for others, that competition should be fair and must always take place within the spirit and rules of the sport. Sport Scotland look mainly in sport in school and help ensure that there are higher quality opportunities for young students. The organisation ensures that sport clubs are part of the fabric of their local communities and also that the clubs provide good quality of coaching and support a world class sporting school. Sport Scotland have national centres at Inverclyde, Cumbrae and Glenmore Lodge which provide an ideal training ground for people of all levels. The organisation also invest in the National Lottery and Scottish Government funding in projects that help with progression of sport in schools and communities. Sport Scotland are on all major social media networks these include, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube etc. This helps with the recognition of the organisation to help the country.

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Women's sport foundation was founded in 1974 by Billie Jean King. This group was set up in order to advance and improve lives of young girls and women around sports and physical activity, allowing easy access/ fairness and equal opportunities in sports. By educating, supporting and advocating, women are able to feel free and express their love within sport and feeling a sense of achievement.

The support women sport foundation gives to individuals is a financial boost in order to find champion athletes.

The GoGirlGo has reached over 1 million girls and has funded 4.6 million dollars for girl serving organisations