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Governing
Bodies of Sport
Sport NI works closely with the governing bodies of
sport in Northern Ireland. Sport NI's role is to provide advice and guidance to support governing bodies
in the management of their sports, including such areas as strategic planning,
raising performance standards, sourcing funding, employment matters and good practice, in a range of
areas.
Over
the past year, Sport NI has invested £1.13 million in
governing body programmes through its Investing in Sport programme. This
investment has enabled:
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the
employment of staff;
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the
training and education of coaches, officials and administrators;
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the
preparation of talented performers for representative competition at underage
level.
There
are currently 83 governing bodies recognised by Sport NI:
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13
of these are Northern Ireland based governing bodies, e.g. Irish Football
Association, Netball Northern Ireland;
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35
are branches of Irish governing bodies, e.g. Ulster Council GAA, Ulster Branch
Tennis Ireland, and
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31
are branches of UK governing bodies, e.g. N I Athletics Federation and N I Judo
Federation.
Governing Body Modernisation Programme
In 2004, Sport NI
was awarded £90k from UK Sport to initiate a 'modernisation programme' with the
governing bodies of sport. The purpose of the programme is to encourage the
highest standards of practice in governing bodies in relation to areas such as
the governance of the sport, HR management, financial management etc.
To
access the list of Governing Bodies please click
here.
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