37 facility projects in Wales to share £3.5m worth of funding

A total of 37 projects are set to share £3.5m worth of Welsh Government funding, with the view to widening access to sports and physical activity.

Allocated by Sport Wales, the funding will be spread across a wide range of facility projects.

These include creating more artificial pitches in places that need them most and also supporting some of Wales’ most talented athletes.

Projects include the resurfacing of the athletics track at the Pembrokeshire Sports Village, which will receive £191,253, while Sport Wales has worked together with the Football Association of Wales, Welsh Rugby Union and Hoci Cymru to allocate funding towards a number of new synthetic sports pitches in Port Talbot, Wrexham, Cwmbran, Colwyn Bay and Haverfordwest.

Elsewhere, the funding will help create the first-ever Centre of Excellence for Welsh Boxing, a seriesof upgrades at The Wales National Pool and the National Hockey Centre, improvements to the performance gym at the National Indoor Athletics Centre, and the installation of 2,000 more seats at the House of Sport venue in Cardiff – the home of performance netball in Wales.

Sport Wales CEO, Brian Davies, said: “We received a high level of applications from local authorities, sport governing bodies and national partners for a share of this funding and prioritised projects that would make the biggest impact on making sport more inclusive.”