Structure
It is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport: disbursing Government funding and acting as the statutory distributor of National Lottery grants.
It is under the direction of UK Sport's management board. The board is chaired by Sue Campbell; first appointed in 2003, her current four year term runs until 2013. Four organisations fulfil roles for the four individual nations: Sport England, sportscotland, Sport Wales and Sport Northern Ireland.
The headquarters is situated near University College London, near the British Museum, and south of the main railway stations. It is opposite Russell Square tube station, off the A4200.
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