It's quite the opposite. Three or four years ago the Blair government modernized their charitable act and included environmental organizations, amateur sport organizations, and arts organizations. Arts are already included here in Canada. Their purpose in doing that was to create exactly the opportunities you describe so that community-minded individuals could donate to local not-for-profit sport clubs and associations and support the full inclusion of young people in their sport programs.
So the driving force is to increase the inclusion and accessibility of sport in our communities, not just because sport is a good thing--I think it provides certain outlets for young people--but because it helps to generate the related social and economic benefits that people fully appreciate in their communities.