Articles tagged with: Culture Media & Sport

Rugby must evolve before more players pay the price

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03 Apr Health

Rugby must evolve before more players pay the price

For the first 21 years of my life, everything I did revolved around becoming a professional football player. As a teenager, I was living the dream - on a fast track to play for my boyhood club Liverpool and training with legends of the game daily.

20 Feb 2024 Social affairs

"Car Crash" Football Regulator Talks With Culture Secretary Failed To Sweeten Clubs

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has failed to win over several clubs in the English Football League (EFL) after a series of tense meetings which were described as “shambles” and a “car crash”.

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19 Jul 2023 Culture

100% of athletes benefit from Powered by Purpose

The pilot Powered by Purpose programme launched by UK Sport, in partnership with The True Athlete Project in 2022, was created after a consultation found that 86% of athletes on the world class programme want to use their platform to make a difference to society, whilst they are still competing.

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13 Jul 2023 Culture

BETTING AND GAMING COUNCIL GIVE VOICE TO PUNTERS AND INDUSTRY WORKERS BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE

Betting and Gaming Council Chief Executive Michael Dugher urged MPs to remember the 22.5m punters who enjoy a regular bet during his evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

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05 Jul 2023 Culture

Major sporting events are having positive social impact across the UK

Alongside the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and The National Lottery, we are proud to have supported two World Championships that showcased the power sporting events can have to improve people’s lives and local communities across the UK.

04 Jun 2023 Culture

MPs Won't Conduct Phillip Schofield "Witch Hunt" As ITV Bosses Face Grilling

Chair of the culture, media and sport select committee Caroline Dinenage has said the committee’s grilling of ITV bosses in parliament will not be a “witch hunt” against disgraced This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield.

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02 May 2023 Culture

Bumper summer of UK Sport major events kicks off in Cardiff

The first of 14 UK Sport and The National Lottery funded major events being hosted in the UK this year – the 2023 Wheelchair Rugby European Championships – kicks off in Cardiff, Wales this week, 3-7 May 2023.

Powered by Purpose: How the next generation of UK athletes are powering positive change

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09 Feb 2023 Health

Powered by Purpose: How the next generation of UK athletes are powering positive change

Being a top-class athlete is about achieving dreams and ambitions in the sporting arena. But for many of the UK’s top athletes in 2023 it is also about driving and effecting lasting positive change in society.

Both athletes and MPs know that elite athletes are vital role models for our communities. And on issues such as period poverty, water quality, disability inclusion, and mental wellbeing, UK Sport’s Powered by Purpose programme provides British athletes with the opportunities and skills they need to power positive change in our communities.

UK ADSPEND CONTINUES RECOVERY IN Q1 BUT REAL-TERMS GROWTH IN 2023 UNDER PRESSURE

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28 Jul 2022 Culture

UK ADSPEND CONTINUES RECOVERY IN Q1 BUT REAL-TERMS GROWTH IN 2023 UNDER PRESSURE

UK adspend rose 28.3% to a total of £8.6bn in the first three months of 2022, 7.7 percentage points ahead of our previous forecast in April.

Protecting digital democracy is in everyone’s interest

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14 Jul 2022 Economy

Protecting digital democracy is in everyone’s interest

If we get the Online Advertising Programme right, we can shape the future of digital for the better.

19 May 2022 Culture

Extra Time: Paying women rugby professionals is long overdue

Many sports federations do painfully little to advance to protect women's sport.

03 May 2022 Culture

Introducing an independent football regulator risks doing more harm than good

Lord Triesman’s time at the Football Association was an unhappy one, and his frustrations with the existing system of governance are understandable.

Levelling Up: What’s art got to do with it?

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13 Oct 2021 Coronavirus

Levelling Up: What’s art got to do with it?

The creative and cultural sector can be a powerful tool in reducing inequality. If we're serious about levelling up, then we must invest in the arts.

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17 Sep 2021 Culture

BGC welcomes new Secretary of State for DCMS - and says it’s vital the Government continues its ‘evidence-led’ approach to the Gambling Review

Standards body the Betting and Gaming Council has congratulated Nadine Dorries on becoming the new Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

24 Jun 2021 Culture

Andrew Lloyd-Webber Joins Legal Action To Force Government To Publish Data From Mass Event Pilots

Figures from across the live music and theatre sector are launching legal action today to force the government to hand over data about its mass event pilots.

The Big Screen is Back! Supporting the film industry through tough times

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17 Jun 2021 Coronavirus

The Big Screen is Back! Supporting the film industry through tough times

After all the time we have spent in front of our televisions, we’re finally able to get back to experiencing films how they should be: on the big screen.

17 Jun 2021 Communities

Mission: Possible? Protecting the film industry in the wake of the pandemic

Almost like a scene from a movie, I was sat in my Parliamentary office last year when I got a message from a producer of the Mission Impossible movies: ‘We have a problem – can you help?’.

03 Jun 2021 Culture

The gaming industry leads the way in levelling up the UK

With companies spread from Brighton to Belfast, Cambridge to Cardiff, the video gaming and esports sector is creating a boom in high-quality, highly productive jobs across all regions of the UK.

01 Jun 2021 Coronavirus

Government shielded the arts during the pandemic – now we must help them recover and thrive

This time last year, our cultural institutions were staring into the abyss. Covid had forced all of their doors closed; my officials had given me the chilling warning that up to 75 per cent of our theatres, galleries, museums and other cultural institutions were at risk of being lost to the pandemic.

29 May 2021 Coronavirus

Labour's Jo Stevens: "Culture is culture, there shouldn’t be a war element to it"

Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens has her dream brief as shadow culture secretary. She takes Georgina Bailey around the city’s cultural landmarks to talk about what Wales is getting right in supporting the creative industries, and the personal and professional impacts of Covid.

21 May 2021 Culture

Justice Secretary Warns BBC That Apology Over Princess Diana Interview Is "Not The End Of It"

Robert Buckland has said the probe into the broadcaster's conduct raised "very serious questions" about its governance.

21 May 2021 Social affairs

Extra Time: the not-so-super Super League

In a new occasional series, Lord Triesman tackles the important matters facing sport – both on and off the field. First up, the not-so-super European Super League

The sports making an Olympic contribution to the UK economy

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18 May 2021 Health

The sports making an Olympic contribution to the UK economy

Olympic and Paralympic sports are generating increasing value for the economy – and UK Sport believes they have an important part to play in helping the country Build Back Better from Covid.

15 Apr 2021 Culture

We need a more religiously literate media if we are to build a more harmonious society

Too often media reporting on religion can be sensationalist and reinforce problematic stereotypes. We need a fundamental shift in a media culture to address these disparities and foster a religiously literate media environment.