SPORTS as diverse as football and archery would be be hit hard by Education, Sport and Culture’s proposed funding cuts of around 78 per cent to the Sports Advisory Council.

Archer Lucy O’Sullivan, a future Olympics hopeful who is currently on her final year at Nottingham Trent University, says that the bottom line for her could be that she does not return to Jersey to live as it would end up being too expensive to travel backwards and forwards to the UK for competitions.

Football, with its huge levels of participation at youth level, has three trips arranged for the Capita Jersey Football Association Centre of Excellence squads.

But with everything already budgeted for 2012 they now worry about where the extra finance will come from if their current grant from ESC’s Advisory Council is under threat.

Development officer Brian Oliver said: ‘Football is going to be hit hard; all our planning and budgeting has been written for this year and we will have a shortfall if the cuts are brought in.’