But it’s like all forms of Lottery Funding and the like … success creates interest, interest leads to participation.
Should funding for the arts be shared out equally amongst all artists, or should the ones who prove they can achieve a bit be funded a bit more than other individuals to enable them to devote more time and achieve more?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There is far more risk in the majority of winter sport than in almost any summer sport, so it is far more difficult to associate previous success with future success. A world standard runner will be a world standard runner on any track and aren't dependent on weather conditions.
The sports may not be everybody's cup of tea but it doesn't mean they shouldn't get support.
Stop planning @wild edges ... you know it leads to trouble
I'm remembering the storm double header from this time in 2020. Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis I think. Some of the damage from that has only just been fixed. Hopefully we won't get the biblical rain this time but I don't think I'll be going anywhere just in case. Friday looks like it might get a bit lively.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We used to have great fun riding down our steep street on sitting down on skateboards (the little kids' ones) and get into trouble for wearing our shoe heels out using them as brakes. And corrugated cardboard worked surprisingly well on slopes with long grass. I don't know of anyone took it to a more organised sport level though - I guess partly because there weren't any facilities in the area. If funding makes a sport more accessible to less-advantaged young people then I'm OK with that, but providing expensive facilities for a limited few doesn't seem like a good use of limited funds.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I think it's a waste of money to fund sports which are not suited to our climate or topography. I think it's wasteful to spend shedloads of money so that a single person or a team can become the best in the world at something that doesn't really benefit more than a few people who have spent years on their obsession.The money would be better spent on the provision of local facilities and trainers for the benefit of the masses.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think it's wasteful to spend shedloads of money so that a single person or a team can become the best in the world at something that doesn't really benefit more than a few people who have spent years on their obsession.The money would be better spent on the provision of local facilities and trainers for the benefit of the masses.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”