[1] In 1994 the Prime Minister had originally wanted to introduce new Sport Colleges, as part of the Specialist Schools programme.
The Central Council of Physical Education (now the Sport and Recreation Alliance was much in favour of these new proposals.
The government was looking at improving provision for university sport, and to train possible elite athletes, but it was decided that this plan would not affect a wide enough group of school children, and the government chose instead to try to get more children participating in any sport, whether elite or not.
[2] The government launched the Physical Education, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) in 2002, which the trust supported.
[8] In 1997, the trust was involved with the setting up of the first six Sports Colleges, with a seminar in Crowborough in East Sussex on Monday 23 June 1997.
[14] In January 2000 the trust found that football was popular amongst secondary school girls, and basketball.
In January 2009 it held a four day National Talent Orientation Camp at Loughborough University, with eighty children from six sports were trained by sprinter Jason Gardener, rower Miriam Batten, cyclist James McCallum, hockey player Jon Bleby, canoeist Ian Wynne, and sailor Jonathan Glanfield.
Also taking part was mountaineer Jake Meyer, and sports psychiatrist Steve Peters.
[21] In June 1996 the trust launched a national programme, or strategy, to fund local county councils to provide sports development officers for children.