UK Sport

UK Sport is the nation’s high performance sports agency. Its mission is to inspire the nation through Olympic and Paralympic success. Primarily this means working with our partner sporting organisations to deliver medals at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. UK Sport’s strategic direction helped British sports and athletes deliver 67 Olympic and 147 Paralympic medals at Rio 2016 and 4 Olympic and 6 Paralympic medals at Sochi 2014. UK Sport also has responsibility for activities best delivered at a UK level, such as: bidding for and staging major sporting events in this country, increasing sporting activity and influence overseas and promoting sporting conduct, ethics and diversity in society. UK Sport is funded by a mix of Government Exchequer and National Lottery funds. More @ www.uksport.gov.uk