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LGBT+ History Month is a celebration each February in the UK of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and non-binary history. This includes the history of LGBT+ rights and related civil rights movements.

The last year has been incredibly tough for community clubs. Lockdowns, restrictions and social-distancing has seen many of you temporarily close or reduce your capacity to deliver the activity you love.

IWF will hold their next IWF Election on 24-27 March 2021 with 7 roles becoming available.

It is with great sadness that British Weight Lifting has recently learned that one of our most tenacious and resolute Olympic weightlifters, Sylvanus Blackman, has passed away at the age of 87.British Weight Lifting would like to send our deepest condolences to his friends and family and pay tribute to a courageous figure who represented Barbados, England and Great Britain with distinction in an international career that spanned over a decade.

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day marking the 76th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 is ‘Be the Light In The Darkness’. It encourages everyone to reflect on the depth’s humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the light’ before, during and after genocide.

Following this week’s decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board to cut the number of categories and medal opportunities for weightlifting in Paris 2024, British Weight Lifting has made the following statement.

It is with great sadness that British Weight Lifting has learnt that one of our most popular, well known and influential members, Brian Hamill, has passed away at the age of 83.

British Weight Lifting would like to congratulate Dave Hembrough on winning BBC Unsung Hero for the Yorkshire region and on becoming a national finalist for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero Award.

It is with great sadness that British Weight Lifting have recently learned that David Prowse has passed away at the age 85.British Weight Lifting would like to send our deepest condolences to his friends and family.Not many people in the world of weightlifting can claim to have coached a Kryptonian, been idolised as a road safety superhero by thousands of British school kids, then subsequently struck terror into their heart’s years later as a Dark Lord of the Sith.

Grassroots sport, fitness and leisure facilities are facing uncertain times due to Covid-19 so BWL are among the 162 sports leader who have written to the Prime Minister requesting support for the sports and physical activity sector.