ABSTRACT
The chapter explores some of the key national agencies and organisations that sit outside the remit of the Whitehall and Sports Councils. These national agencies form a critical part of the sport development landscape and fabric that is constantly evolving as national policy, funding, and political priorities shift as we win a mega-event bid (such as London 2012) or more recently the Rugby League World Cup 2021 infrastructure, and resources move around. In this chapter, it is intended to highlight some of the key agencies that operate and have come to signify what contemporary sport development ‘means’. These range from the advocacy and lobby group the Sport and Recreation Alliance to the PE advocacy and sport training delivery team at the Youth Sport Trust through to social policy-led agencies such as Active Communities Network and Street Games. The chapter is not an exhaustive list but an introductory light shone on a tier of sport development for students.
