Examples of use of CCPR
1. CCPR believes that Sport England‘s ambitious target of increasing the number of people involved in sport by 1% a year can be achieved only with greater investment.
2. Article continues In evidence submitted to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport‘s independent licensing fees review panel, the CCPR says the new fees have cost voluntary sport over 2.6m in their first year.
3. Many grassroots clubs are facing bills of 1,000 a year, which the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) says would be better spent on facilities and trying to meet government targets for participation in sport.
4. The CCPR is challenging the claim by Richard Caborn, the sports minister, that most clubs would pay the smallest licence fee of 100, plus 70 for renewal under the new Licensing Act.
5. Shadow culture secretary Theresa May said the Central Council of Physical Recreation believed the new measures were "crippling grass–roots sport with extra cost and bureaucracy". Sports minister Richard Caborn told MPs that the CCPR had so far produced no evidence of the harm the new system in the Licensing Act would introduce.