Sport England

Sport England

Founded	1996; 29 years ago (1996)
Founder	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Type	Non-departmental public body
Headquarters	Loughborough, United Kingdom
Area served	England
Product	Funding
Key people	Tim Hollingsworth, Chief Executive
Website	www.sportengland.org

Sport England is a 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 taking part in sport and physical activity; remove the barriers that make it harder for some people to be active; 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.

Chris Boardman is the current Chair of Sport England.^[1]