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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts
District Sports Teams Training Scheme
A total of 11,960 young people took part in 301 district team events for basketball, football, handball and fencing in 2013.
Young Athletes Training Scheme
In 2013, 34,352 young people joined the 'Young Athletes Training Scheme, under which 22 National Sports Associations (NSAs) (commissioned by the LCSD) provided intermediate level training in 28 sports disciplines to teenagers wishing to become athletes.
School Sports Programme
The School Sports Programme provides a wide range of sports programmes for students and includes seven subsidiary programmes: Sport Education Programme, Easy Sport Programme, Outreach Coaching Programme, Sport Captain Programme, Joint Schools Sports Training Programme, Badges Award Scheme and Sports Award Scheme. In 2013, over 610,000 students took part in about 8,000 sporting events. The School Sport Programme Coordinator Pilot Scheme was launched in the 2012-13 school year to further foster a strong sporting culture in school campus whilst providing a career training platform for retired athletes.
Community Sports Club Project
In 2013, the Community Sports Club (CSC) Project, organised by the LCSD in collaboration with the NSAs, supported about 430 CSCs in organising 2,303 sports training activities for 50,012 participants. Seminars and management development programmes were formulated for some 520 sports volunteers to help them run CSCs.
The CSC Enhancement Programme encourages CSCs to use LCSD venues outside peak hours to organise activities for local people, and 311 sports training classes were held for 3,325 participants under this programme in 2013.
Sports Subvention Scheme
The LCSD provides subvention to the NSAs and other sporting organisations for sports promotion and development. The subvention covers office and personnel expenses and spending on programmes by the NSAs. In 2013, the LCSD provided 58 NSAs and 26 sport. organisations with subventions amounting to about $259 million and 11,261 programmes for different sports were organised, attracting 746,010 participants. The most popular training programmes were for football, basketball, wushu and table tennis.
In 2013, the NSAs were given subsidies to stage local and international events in Hong Kong, including the 17th Asian Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships, the FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup - Hong Kong 2013 and the 2013 ITTF Premium Junior Circuit (Table Tennis) – Hong Kong Junior and Cadet Open. The LCSD also provided subsidies to NSAs to strengthen squad training and to enable athletes representing Hong Kong to participate in overseas competitions.
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