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@Cohen
Missed this thread, but back tracking a bit, yes our schools project is going well.
The key point is that the funding and purpose is coming from a cycle training and safety angle, rather than a sporting angle.
Although the result is the same in terms of kids playing bike polo, the objective from the councils perspective is more about getting them on bikes and learning to ride confidently and safely.
As has been mentioned, we're still a long way of being a 'proper' sport and being acknowledged by BC/sport-england/whatever, but the off shoot from these kind of projects is that bike polo is starting to be acknowledged in the minds of higher authority's, hopefully more as being a significant sport with proper credentials, which will help us get funding/facilities in the (distant) future.
My opinion is that if the sport wants to be taken seriously, we cannot jump in at the deep end and expect to be noticed. We need to try hard at the grass roots level to promote the sport, community projects etc are just a beginning, build up our numbers and hopefully gain recognition from the wider cycle sport community as being respectable.
ps sorry for the waffle