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Sir Rodney Myerscough Walker (born 10 April 1943) is a British sports administrator. He was Chairman of Wakefield Trinity RLFC between 1986 and 1993; the Rugby Football League between 1993 and 2002; GB Sports Council between 1994 and 1996; Sport England between 1996 and 1998 and UK Sport between 1997 and 2003.He was also chairman of the World Snooker Association for several years before being replaced by Barry Hearn in 2009. ==Career== Sir Rodney has been Chairman of Goals Soccer Centres Plc since 2002. Goals is an operator of five-a-side soccer centres throughout Scotland and England, with 42 sites operational, further sites under development and with a long term “roll out” programme which envisages a minimum 4 new openings each year for the foreseeable future. The company has recently set up a joint venture in the USA & has licensed the Goals name into South Africa, Northern Ireland & the Republic of Ireland. Sir Rodney is the controlling shareholder of Myerscough Holdings Ltd. Group companies are involved in property development, management, investment & architecture. At the request of Wakefield Trinity RLFC & Wakefield MDC, Sir Rodney has taken on the chairmanship of The Wakefield & District Community Stadium Trust. The trust is intending to arrange the funding for a new £19 million, 12,000 capacity stadium & associated facilities to serve the Wakefield community. He is a trustee of the London Marathon Charitable Trust, a Trustee of the Wembley National Stadium Trust, Vice President of the Youth Charter for Sport and vice President of the Federation of Disability Sports Organizations. He was a Vice Chairman of the NSPCC Full Stop Appeal and was chair of the Sports Steering Group which raised £25 million for the campaign. He has recently been elected an Honorary Member of the Society in recognition of his contribution to the charity. He is Vice Chairman of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park & the Yorkshire Landscape Trust Ltd and was Chairman of Art Transpennine ’98. He is Honorary Life President of the Wakefield Theatre Trust, and led the campaign to raise £¾m to enable the successful re-opening of the Theatre Royal and Opera House Wakefield in 1986. The Trust has now embarked on an ambitious plan to raise £8m to extend and improve the theatre. He is also President of Wakefield Little Theatre. He is Founder and Chairman of the Committee responsible for the organization of the Yorkshire Awards Dinner, now in its twenty third year, at which outstanding Yorkshire people are recognized for their contribution to life in Yorkshire in a variety of spheres. The dinner has, in addition, raised £150,000 for Yorkshire-based charities. Sir Rodney is President of the Wakefield Branch of Yorkshire Cancer Research and was President of the £5m Yorkshire Spinal Injuries Appeal. He is Vice President of the Hospital Heartbeat Appeal which has, to date, raised £3.0 million for Yorkshire Hospitals. He is Trustee of the National Coal Mining Museum for England based in Yorkshire a member of the Council of the Order of St. John for South and West Yorkshire a Trustee of the St Oswald’s Charitable Trust and the Clarke Hall Farm Trust. In July 2013 Sir Rodney was appointed as head of TDF 2014 Ltd., the organisation coordinating the opening stages of the 2014 Tour de France. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rodney Walker (rugby league)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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