What is the World Class Performance Pathway Programme and what does it mean for shooting?

Background
Gold and silver medals for Richard Faulds and Ian Peel in Sydney 2000 meant that shooting earned £1.3m of Lottery money through a World Class Performance Programme to support British prospects for the Olympic Games in Athens 2004.

Richard Faulds

UK Sport is the body responsible for distributing funds to shooting sports and ensuring that the money is used wisely. It liaises with British Shooting (formerly the Great Britain Target Shooting Federation (GBTSF)) - the body responsible for international shooting sports in the UK - which in turn appointed John Leighton-Dyson as Performance Director in November 2001 to meet UK Sport's requirements, develop the World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) and ensure that it stays on track. 
 
The Programme produced a team of six shooters for the Athens Games (the largest since the introduction of Quotas in 1989).  Mike Babb made the Final in Prone Rifle and Sarah Wixey finished 9th in Women's Trap.
 
Following Athens, negotiations with UK Sport produced an enhanced Performance Programme for a small number of shooters underpinned by funding from Sport England for aspirant 'Potential' athletes working towards medals in Beijing 2008.