British Weight Lifting is excited to reveal the progress of the Talent Transfer programme that was launched earlier this year.The project is managed by BWL Talent Lead Emily Muskett, Tokyo 2020 Olympian, 2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist, 2021 European Champion, and 2019 World Championships Bronze Medallist.
British Weight Lifting is pleased to announce it is amongst 20 National Governing Bodies receiving funding through the B2022: NGB Sport Participation, Innovation and Digital Fund and will receive an investment of £350,000 to level up access to sport and physical activity across the country.
British Weight Lifting is amongst a group of over 120 organisations working in partnership with Sport England to level up access to sport and physical activity across the country.British Weight Lifting will receive expertise, support and an investment of £2,808,653 of government and National Lottery funding from Sport England to co-deliver the ambitious of its 10-year Uniting the Movement strategy.
mettle, a weightlifting club in Sheffield, has secured tackling inequalities funding to develop and improve the physical activity offer in the local community.
A British Weight Lifting Affiliated club has been granted funding to offer free weightlifting sessions to local children.
UK Sport has today confirmed an additional £11.2m of funding into summer Olympic and Paralympic sport to support preparations for the Paris 2024 Games.
Wildboar Weightlifting is one of British Weight Lifting’s Talent Academies which are clubs actively engaged with British Weight Lifting to ensure that young athletes are provided with safe, supportive and inclusive training environments and that they can get access to high quality coaching, that aligns to British Weight Lifting’s long term athlete development (LTAD) strategy.
Equation Fitness is one of British Weight Lifting’s Talent Academies which are clubs actively engaged with British Weight Lifting to ensure that young athletes are provided with safe, supportive and inclusive training environments and that they can get access to high quality coaching, that aligns to British Weight Lifting’s long term athlete development (LTAD) strategy.
In October 2021 British Weight Lifting will be launching a project to deliver free 6 week introductory strength training courses for schools and local sports clubs across the UK.
British Weight Lifting would like to congratulate Dave Hembrough, Founder and Head Coach at Hallam Barbell (soon to relaunch as mettle), who has been successful in securing funding and a place on the Ideas to Action programme https://www.ideastoaction.design/.
