17-452: Sportsmark is Sport England's accreditation scheme for secondary schools. The scheme recognises a school's out of hours sports provision. Sportsmark awards are given to secondary schools for provision for sport and physical education. They are currently being reviewed along with Activemark awards with plans for a new sports partnership mark. When the policies were introduced there was little other investment into school sport. In England, if
34-710: A Super League licensing system were introduced. Through his position at the RFL, Lewis has become Chair of the Rugby League European Federation and Deputy Chair of the Rugby League International Federation . Following Nigel Wood's appointment as RFL Chief Executive in October 2007, Lewis's role increasingly focuses on developing rugby league in the UK and internationally. In 2009, when Lewis took on
51-502: A school or college is given sportsmark accreditation, it is then entered for specialist status. This article related to the politics of England is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to sport in England is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This sports award or trophy-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to education in
68-620: A statutory consultee on planning applications that affect playing fields, under SI No. 1817 (1996). The funding it distributes comes from both HM Treasury and the National Lottery . Since 1997, it has invested over £2 billion of Lottery funds and £300 million from the Exchequer into sports in England. 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
85-516: A year of joining the RFL, Lewis oversaw reunification with the British Amateur Rugby League Association (BARLA) after nearly 30 years of division. Lewis, it was claimed by then Widnes Vikings chairman Tony Chambers, showed his strong expansionist credentials in 2005 when he allegedly threatened to resign if Super League clubs did not back a plan to save London Broncos , although he denies this. Under Lewis, plans for
102-617: The British government in 1965. Archives of The Sports Council are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. The archives include administrative papers, reports, financial records, correspondence, and collected printed material from the 1940s to 2001. Richard Lewis (tennis and rugby league) Richard Alan Lewis , CBE (born 6th December 1954 ) is a former British Davis Cup tennis professional and sports administrator from Middlesex , United Kingdom . He
119-595: The UK is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sport England 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 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
136-528: The criteria based approach to the Ten Principles of Active Design. The revised Active Design was published in 2015, and was supported by Public Health England . Derek Mapp resigned as Chair of Sport England on 29 November 2007 after 13 months in the post, claiming he had been forced to leave his position by James Purnell , the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport , in a dispute over funding. Mapp
153-595: The elite level. Chris Boardman is the Chairman of Sport England and Natalie Ceeney is Vice Chair. Sport England was established as the English Sports Council in September 1996 as an executive non-departmental public body by royal charter . It began operating in 1997 as Sport England. It has two statutory, functions: (1) a lottery distributor for sport; and (2) the protection of playing fields, through its role as
170-499: The first woman chief executive to hold that post. Lewis was a professional on the men's tennis circuit from 1972 to 1985. His best singles performance at a Grand Slam was reaching the third round of Wimbledon in 1976, where he defeated Patrick Proisy and Brian Teacher before losing to Nikola Pilić . In 1978, he helped Great Britain reach the Davis Cup final, and also played in the 1981 semi-finals. He reached as high as 77th in
187-517: The nation's sports club infrastructure is safer, stronger and more successful". As of April 2015 over 12,000 clubs had the Clubmark accreditation. The Sport England logo is based on the 'sport for all' logo which was used from the 1970s onwards. In 1997, the English Sports Council replaced the previous administrative body known as The Sports Council. The Sports Council was first appointed by
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#1733085880142204-443: The public find sports facilities anywhere in England. Searching can be through an interactive map, within a given locality or to discover more information about a known facility location. In 2007 Sport England produced Active Design, which provided a set of design guidelines to help promote opportunities for sport and physical activity in the design and layout of new development. The guide was revised, retaining 'The 3 A's' and refining
221-561: The role of Chair of Sport England, his RFL title changed from Executive Chairman to Chairman. Lewis was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to sports administration. In April 2012, Lewis was appointed Chief Executive Officer at Wimbledon following a successful career at the RFL and Chair of Sport England. He replaced Ian Ritchie, who in turn moved on to become chief executive of
238-418: 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. It is encourages 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. Its 'Active Places' website is designed to help
255-497: The world in the men's singles, winning matches against top players such as Adriano Panatta , José Higueras , Miloslav Mečíř and Ilie Năstase . After finishing his playing career, Lewis moved into sports administration joining the U.K. Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) in 1987, rising to become its director of tennis, but agreeing to leave his position in the wake of a 2000 loss to Ecuador that led to reduction of British tennis's status from "World" to "Euro-African Zone". Within
272-669: Was succeeded by Michael Farrar as interim chair from December 2007 to March 2009. Purnell appointed Richard Lewis (former Chief Executive of the Rugby Football League ) to review Sport England's funding priorities, and he was appointed chair on 1 April 2009. On 22 April 2013, Nick Bitel was appointed as new chairman, succeeding Richard Lewis. Clubmark is an accreditation which Sport England makes available to community sports clubs which fulfil certain criteria. Its declared aims are: "Higher standards of welfare, equity, coaching and management in community sports club" and "Making sure
289-413: Was the chief executive of The AELTC (Championships) Limited, organiser and host of The Championships, Wimbledon. Lewis took up the post in 2012, having been executive chairman of the Rugby Football League since 2002. On 1 April 2009 he replaced Michael Farrar as chairman of Sport England . In 2020, after 8 years as chief executive, Lewis stepped down and he was succeeded by Sally Bolton. She became
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