We've announced 6.5million of new funding to improve facilities and level up access to community sport across the West Midlands as part of a legacy from next summer's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
This new investment is made up of two funds - the Places and Spaces Fund and the Commonwealth Active Communities Fund - that aim to tackle inactivity in local communities and engage underrepresented groups, such as people on lower incomes and disabled people.
The National Lottery money is part of our wider investment of more than 30m into Birmingham 2022, and both funds are dedicated to upgrading physical activity facilities and levelling up access to community sport, as well as boosting community connections and activity levels.
The investment represents a core part of our 10-year strategy, Uniting the Movement, and comes on the back of our latest Active Lives Adult Survey that found inactivity levels in the West Midlands have worsened since the start of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
There are now more than 100,000 more inactive adults and nearly 70,000 fewer active adults living in the area than before the pandemic, and this new investment is designed to help the region recover.
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