Governance

The Code for Sports Governance sets out the levels of transparency, diversity and inclusion, accountability and integrity that are required from those organisations who seek – and are in receipt of – UK Government and National Lottery funding from UK Sport and/or Sport England. 

Launched in 2016, the Code has been applied to over 4,000 organisations across its three Tiers of funding and has provided a standard framework of governance for a wide and diverse range of national, regional and local bodies, community groups and charities providing sport and physical activity opportunities. Many of the principles set out in the Code are widely accepted as being elements of good practice in corporate governance, and can be found in most models of governance both within and outwith the sporting sector, e.g. the UK Corporate Governance Code, the governance frameworks of all five domestic Sports Councils, and the Sport and Recreation Alliance’s Voluntary Code of Good Governance.