That is the deal it must accept as a condition of a £3 million grant from the Sports Council.

We have given strong support to the Sports Council and its efforts to raise participation in sport.

We went for the rate of inflation, and that is what the Sports Council got.

It is even more odd that the Sports Council should publish his words.

The difficulty is that most people seem to believe such an important issue must somehow be supported by public funds, from the Sports Council perhaps.

After the war he was an administrator on the Sports Council.

We cannot stress enough how much the grant from the Sports Council depends on the present 3000+ members being increased.

The grant that we receive from the Sports Council will only continue to be given if each year our membership increases.

A spokesman for the Sports Council, which helped fund the study, said they were alarmed by the findings.

We are therefore asking the Sports Council for a grant of £1,000 to enable the work to go ahead.