As you may know the Stormont Assembly is currently considering bids   for the Comprehensive Spending Review. This will decide the allocation of money to all areas of public expenditure, including sport for the three years from 2008 to 2011. 

As a result, funding for Sport in Northern Ireland may be under severe threat. This funding threat will be compounded by the loss of over £4.2m to help fund the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and could result in your organisation, as one of our partners, having a reduced opportunity to access Sport Northern Ireland investment in current or future projects; if a significant budget uplift is not secured.

This is our only opportunity to influence the funding that will be available to sport in Northern Ireland over the next 3 years - we need your help!  Please do your best to help secure the resources for us to invest in your work in the future by emailing the Minister for Sport. Click here dcal@dcalni.gov.uk to express your support for increased sports funding. To help us further please forward this entire email to 5 of your organisation's contacts and ask them to do the same.