16 Facts About Sport England

1. The Church of Sport England has some 13,000 parishes and a similar number of clergy, but it solemnizes fewer than one-third of marriages and baptizes only one in four babies.

2. Sport England is bounded on the north by Scotland; on the west by the Irish Sea, Wales, and the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by the English Channel; and on the east by the North Sea.

3. Outside the British Isles, Sport England is often erroneously considered synonymous with the island of Great Britain and even with the entire United Kingdom.

4. Sport England played a key role in the evolution of modern boxing, with the codification of the rules of the sport known as the Queensberry Rules in the 19th century.

5. Sport England is commonly seen as the widely dominant country for building racing cars.

6. Sport England does not compete at the Olympic Games instead English athletes compete as part of Great British team, Team GB.

7. Sport England regularly plays international matches against other countries and competes in the Australian Football International Cup as a part of the Great Britain national Australian rules football team.

8. Sport England now has both a men's national team and a women's national team, which hopefully will compete in the future World Championships.

9. Sport England is seen as one of the birthplaces of bandy, beside Russia.

10. Sport England enjoys a hotly contested and storied rivalry with Australia, against whom they compete for The Ashes in a contest that dates back to the nineteenth century.

11. Sport England won the 2003 Rugby World Cup, the first victory in the competition by a British team.

12. Sport England has both produced winners of each of these competitions.

13. Sport England is the governing body responsible for distributing funds and providing strategic guidance for sporting activity in England.

14. In 2007 Sport England produced Active Design, which provided a set of design guidelines to help promote opportunities for sport and physical activity in the design and layout of new development.

15. Sport England was established as the English Sports Council in September 1996 as an executive non-departmental public body by Royal Charter.

16. Sport England is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.