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Scottish Sports Institute funding
30/06/2003
The Scottish Institute of Sport, established in
1998, has been awarded more than £16 million in lottery
funds.
Sport Minister Frank McAveety said the money
would ensure elite Scottish athletes can continue to build
on their remarkable successes and achievements on the world
stage.
The funding will also provide long-term security for
elite sport in Scotland and structural support for
developing athletes. This, along with the Executive's
recent £30 million investment in National and Regional
Sports Facilties, underlines a real commitment to sport at
all levels.
At the Institute in Stirling, Mr McAveety said:
"We want to see Scotland's elite athletes competing and
winning at the highest levels on the national and
international stages. Indeed our recent successes will have
left positive impressions on the novice and developing
athletes across the country, and inspired them to reach
their full potentials.
"The role of the Institute in nurturing, developing, and
supporting athletic talent is Scotland has been vital, and
all partners are determined to continue the work of
developing a sustainable structure in Scotland for
consistently achieving sporting excellence.
"Since the Institute was established in 1998 with the
support of
sportscotland and the Executive, it has
produced six world champions and an impressive haul of
Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic medals, and it is
currently supporting the development of 174 elite athletes
across the country.
"I'm delighted that the Institute will continue to play
a key role as part of the
Sport 21 strategy, in providing the support for an
increasing number of elite athletes. Equally important is
the Institute's role in reaching out to all parts of
Scotland's developing talent - talent which could deliver
the Scottish gold medals of tomorrow".
NOTES TO EDITORS
is a
detailed development strategy for sport in Scotland which
will lead the Executive,
sportscotland, local authorities and the
national governing bodies of sport into 2007 and beyond.
Sport 21 provides a framework for action that will underpin
the development of Scottish sport.
It is founded on three visions of a country:
- where sport is more widely available to all
- where sporting talent is recognised and
nurtured
- achieving and sustaining world class performances
in sport
The Institute was established in October 1998 to support
the development of high performance sport in Scotland and
has been fully operational since 1999. It was established
by sportscotland as on its four key challenges set out in
Sport 21. It is a member of the
sportscotland group of companies.
In 2002 the Institute moved to a new purpose-built
facility in Stirling, which provides a focus for
high-performance coach development and learning.
In 1998 the
sportscotland Lottery Fund allocated £20m
for the initial establishment of Scottish Institute of
Sport for the period ending March 2003. £9.6m of this was
budgeted for the administration of the Institute and the
delivery of services and its programmes. £2.4m was set
aside for the network of Area Institutes and £8m ring
fenced for national and regional training facilities to
support Institute programmes.
Some 174 of Scotland's top athletes are currently
selected for Institute support, which includes individually
tailored programmes to help them develop as world-class
athletes.
Coaching (including training and competition
programmes), sports medicine, sports science, performance
analysis, and Athlete Career and Education (ACE UK) are all
made available to our athletes within these programmes.
For more information on the Scottish Institute of Sport,
contact Sarah Floate, Communications and Marketing
Manger, Tel: 01786 460118.