2023 will be a year to remember

SportMalta recently signed an agreement with the Maltese Olympic Committee that will see the governmental body provide €2.7 million in technical assistance for the next four years.

This assistance helps the Maltese Olympic Committee to be in a better position to independently establish what funds are available to help in the technical preparation of the athletes, particularly for major international events, and to host international competitions.

The government has budgeted to spent 11 million euro in sport facilities for the next three years between 2021 and 2023. Our region will benefit enormously from this.

One of the government’s biggest budget proposals for the education sector, is an investment in a new sports complex at the University of Malta in Gżira. The complex will include, among other things, performing an indoor track, a full-sized football pitch, an Olympic track and a new building for the Institute of Physical Education and the Performing Arts School. This new sport complex will enhance the number of facilites in the area and in the Central Region.

Local authorities in our Central Region have a central role to play in the provision of community sport and recreation facilities. From the local parks to leisure centres, local councils enable a huge range of leisure activities and sport to happen. They also have an important leadership role to play, bringing schools, voluntary sport clubs, national governing bodies of sport, health and the private sector together to forge partnerships, unblock barriers to participation and improve the local sport delivery system.