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Brigid Simmonds |
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| Chair of CCPR |
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| CCPR (Central Council of Physical Recreation) |
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| www.bisl.org |
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Presentation
London 2012: Delivering the promise - Play the Game 2009 (PP Pdf.)
CV
Brigid Simmonds is chair of CCPR, the alliance of governing and representative bodies of sport and recreation in the UK. She is also Chief Executive of the umbrella organisation Business In Sport and Leisure (BISL) which represents over 100 private sector commercial companies in the sports and leisure industry.
Brigid is also the immediate past Chairman of the Tourism Alliance, a post she held from January 2005 to July 2006, which represents 46 different trade organisations and 200,000 businesses. In July 2005, she became Chair of CCPR. In 2008 she was elected to serve a further three-year term.
She has completed a six-year term on the main board of Sport England, where she was Chairman of Phoenix Sport in Sheffield and Caversham Lakes Trust as well as a former Chair of the Sport England Lottery Awards Panel. She was previously a non-executive Director of Leicester City Football Club Plc and is the author of ‘Developing Partnerships in Sport and Leisure: A Practical Guide’, published by Longman in 1994.
Brigid is married with three children and lives in London. She ran the London Marathon in 1998, 2005 and 2008 and enjoys running, tennis and music.
Brigid was awarded an OBE for services to sport in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list of June 2006.
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