Partners

UK Sport is one of 12 official National Lottery distributors. The National Lottery have donated £337m to the funding of elite sport in the United Kingdom for the years 2013-2017. Since National Lottery funding for Olympic and Paralympic sport started, British athletes have won 633 medals.

The Department for Culture, Media & Sport is responsible for sports policy - helping people play sport from an early age and encouraging them to keep playing sport throughout their lives. DCMS also works with and provides funding to UK Sport, the national high performance sports agency, to help elite athletes achieve their potential. National Lottery and the Exchequer funding goes towards continuing to identify our best athletes and help them train, while also giving them more opportunities to compete in the UK to qualify and prepare for Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Since 2008 BAE Systems has been UK Sport’s Official Research & Innovation Partner. The partnership helps to support British athletes in their preparation for Olympic, Paralympic, World and European Championships by applying BAE System’s cutting-edge technological and engineering expertise to challenges within elite sport.

For over 10 years Bupa have supported the UK Sport Athlete Medical Scheme. Delivered in partnership with the English Institute of Sport, the Athlete Medical Scheme allows athletes to receive specialist medical treatment, when expertise outside of the day to day medical support is required. During this time, Bupa has provided cover for over 46,000 treatments for British athletes, which have included over 1,600 fractures and over 5,000 surgeries.

Sportscover are a specialist insurer with 30 years’ experience of underwriting a range of insurance products for the sport, event and leisure industry. Sportscover aims to bring a wealth of expertise to the UK high performance sporting system and the UK Sport Gold Event Series.