Central Council of Physical Recreation (Great Britain) (Corporate Name)

Langham Life International Conference on Women in Sport (1st : 1978 : London, England). Report of the ... 1979 (a.e.) cover, etc. (Central Council of Physical Education, CCPR; the umbrella body of sport and rec. in Gt. Brit.; independent body represent. membs. at nat'l and internat'l level)

Its website, 3 Oct. 2007 (the Central Council of Physical Recreation, first named the Central Council of Recreative Physical Training, was established in 1935; CCPR is the national alliance of governing and representative bodies of sport and recreation)

'Millions like us'? : British culture in the Second World War, 1999: page 139-140 (the Central Council of Recreative Physical Training was founded in 1935; by the end of the Second World War, its title had changed to the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR); in September 1944, a memorandum on 'The Post-War Work of the CCPR' was approved)

Sports Journalists' Association website, viewed 3 October 2019: news item, posted 24 January 2011 (after 66 years under the name CCPR (Central Council of Physical Recreation), the lobbying group for British sporting bodies has entered 2011 under a new name and branding, the Sport and Recreation Alliance; the new name reflects the breadth of its membership: not just sports governing bodies but also organisations such as The Ramblers and the British Wheel of Yoga)