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Explain the evolution of the initial sports council to its current role as sport England. Give examples of its aims and objectives through the years and comment upon the current status with mass participation, elite sport and the development of facilities
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Sport England has only been around for the past three years. Before Sport England was founded it was known as The Sports Council. This was an independent body under the department of the National Heritage. The sports council was founded in 1972. In its first year of operation, the sports council set out to identify itself by launching a Sport for All campaign to create wider public awareness of the value of sport and physical recreation and to call for action to improve its facilities and to increase participation. The following list is the campaigns that the sports council released to get more people involved in Sport: 1972-77 - Sport for all 1977 - Sport for Come alive 1980-81 Sport for all Disabled people 1983-84 50+ and all to play for 1985-86 - Ever thought of sport? For young people 1987-88 Whats your sport? 1988 - Whats your sport? For women 1989 Milk in Action for women. The Sports Council was funded through an annual grant that was donated to them by the central government. The first year that the grant was given they only received a very small sum of £3.6m. If this were the size of the grant which was given in the sports world today sport would almost be non-existent. On the last year that the Sports Council were in charge of sport the received a massive £47.4m.
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