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Andrew Barnett (music Writer)
Andrew Charles Robert Barnett (born 1968) is the Director of the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Barnett was born in New South Wales and has dual Australian and British citizenship. He attended the University of St Andrews, graduating in 1990 with an MA in Modern History. In 2002, Barnett was the Director of Communications at the UK Sports Council, where the advocacy plan for bidding London as a host city for the 2012 Olympics was developed. From 2005-2007 he was Director of Communications at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Housing Trust. In 2007, he took on the directorship of the UK branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is a director of the Forces in Mind Trust and a committee member of Healthwatch England. Barnett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours The 2021 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Sport
UK Sport is the government agency responsible for investing in Olympic and Paralympic sport in the United Kingdom. It is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. It was created following a "rock bottom" showing at the 1996 Summer Olympics where Team GB won just one solitary gold medal. Team GB and Paralympics GB went on to place third in the medal table at London 2012 and second in the table at Rio 2016. Funding UK Sport currently invests around £345m in summer Olympic and Paralympic sports and £24m in winter Olympic and Paralympic sports. These investments are spread over a four-year cycle ahead of the Tokyo and Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games respectively. The investments are made through Athlete Performance Awards which are paid directly to the athlete and contribute to their living and sporting costs and through central funding to sport National Governing Bodies to invest in coaches, facilities and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |