Promotion of Recreation & Sport
Home Affairs
Appendix F(3)
Provision in 1972/73 1977/78
Year
Recreation & Sport Service Cost ($ m)
Promotion
of Sport
Grants to National
Vote
Sports Assns
Schools Sports Assns
Schools Recreation Programmes
Cost ($ m)
Cost ($ m)
Cost ($ m
Cost ($ m)
1972/73
0.06
0.17
1973/74
0.28
0.14
0.18
1974/75
0.25
0.17
0.18
1975/76
1.52
0.14
0.2
0.18
1976/77
4.38
0.51
0.27
0.24
1977/78
8.05
0.47
0.15
0.61
0.29
Forecast of Provision in 1978/79 - 1984/85
Year
Recreation & Sport Service Cost ($m)
Promotion
Grants to
of Sport Vote
National
Schools Sports
Sports Assns
Assns
Schools Recreation Programmes
Cost ($ m)
Cost ($ m)
Cost ($ m)
Cost ($ m)
1978/79
10.7
1.0
0.4
0.8
0.4
1979/80
18.9
0.9
0.6
0.8
0.4
1980/81
20.4
0.8
0.6
1.0
0.4
1981/82
23.8
0.7
0.8
1.15
0.4
1982/83
24.5
1.9
0.8
1.26
0.4
1983/84
24.5
1
0.8
1.3
0.4
1984/85
24.5
1
0.8
1.3
0.4
Note :
The promotion of physical recreation and sport is mainly undertaken by the Recreation and Sport Service which receives advice from the Council for Recreation and Sport, an advisory body with unofficial representation. The Recreation and Sport Service was first set up in 1974 with a grant of $1 million from the Governor's Special Fund. It has now expanded to cover all 17 districts of the urban areas and the New Territories and is totally financed by the Government. It hopes to expand its activities to provide for up to 3.7 million people on a sessional basis by 1984/85 as opposed to the current 1.8 million.