Nick Bitel news

Former racing cyclist Chris Boardman has been appointed the new chair of grassroots body, Sport England. Boardman, who won an individual pursuit gold medal at ... More

First, the good news. Women now account for 40 per cent of board members across Sport England and UK Sport-funded sports bodies. Then the bad. ... More

British Paralympic Association (BPA) chief executive Tim Hollingsworth has been named as the new CEO of Sport England. He will replace Jennie Price, who announced ... More

Nick Bitel will complete a full eight-year term as Sport England chair after being appointed for a second four-year period. Bitel was originally appointed as ... More

National governing bodies that receive more than £1m (US$1.2m, €1.1m) of public money over a set cycle – such as the Football Association (FA) and ... More

Swimming World Champion Karen Pickering, Sported chief executive Chris Grant and Leicestershire County Cricket Club CEO Wasim Khan are among the six new appointments to ... More

The Panathlon Challenge – a sports charity for disabled school children – received a £54,450 (US$78,329, €71,684) funding boost from Boris Johnson to celebrate its ... More

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport will appoint up to six new board members for Sport England in the coming year as five prepare ... More

Sports Coach UK, the UK’s technical agency for coaching, has appointed former Royal Mail and Marks & Spencer executive Gillian Wilmot as its chair. Windsurfing, ... More

Sport England has given a boost to grassroots sport with £12m being awarded to specialist organisations which help to get people more active. The funding ... More

Sport England has launched Club Matters – a free web-based resource to help to those involved in running grassroots sports clubs. Designed to help all ... More

Three national governing bodies of sport (NGBs) have secured two-year extensions on their Sport England funding, following improved performances. British Fencing, The Lawn Tennis Association ... More

Basingstoke Sports Trust, which manages Basingstoke Sports Centre, has secured £50,000 of National Lottery funding from Sport England. Sport England has revealed that more than ... More

A further £40m ($62m, €47m) of National Lottery funding will be made available to grassroots sport during 2014-17. Sport England today announced that it will ... More

A new report has revealed that grassroots sport accounts for more than half of sport's contribution to the English economy, which on the whole, brings ... More

Sport England has announced a 50 per cent boost to its Protect Playing Fields (PPF) Olympic and Paralympic legacy fund. The £5m (US$7.5m, €5.8m) increase, ... More

The former chief executive of the Royal Yachting Association, Rod Carr CBE, and London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel have been appointed as chairs of ... More

Former England women's cricket captain Claire Connor is one of six new members to be appointed to the board of Sport England by sport minister ... More