Sport England Update

 

 

Sport England is committed to the creation of a world-leading community sport environment. This means focusing their investment on organisations and projects that will grow and sustain participation in grassroots sport and create opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport.

 

 

 

They have a number of funding programmes open to a wide range of organisations. These include sports clubs, voluntary or community organisations, local authorities, schools, colleges and universities.

 

The funding programmes that are currently open are:

 

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Sport England Inspired Facilities

 

Sport England have launched Inspired Facilities - a key part of the Places People Play programme which will deliver a mass participation sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.  

The Inspired Facilities programme will focus on upgrading, extending and modernising up to a thousand local sports clubs and facilities with grants available from £25,000 - £150,000. A grant of £150,000 will be the exception rather than the norm and only available to local authority projects which can demonstrate a strategic rationale to their application - for example, an holistic approach undertaken across the authorities facility stock, and the project for which funding is being sought is their top priority.

 

Inspired Facilities will provide relatively small capital grants to refurbish and improve the places where people play sport, improving their sporting experience and encouraging more people to get involved. 

 

These will be local projects developed and delivered predominantly by community and voluntary sector groups and applications can be submitted by organisations entitled to receive public funding, voluntary or community organisations, local authorities, sports clubs, playing field associations and education establishments.

 

Projects will range from building modernisations and extensions, sports equipment and lighting through to sustainability improvements that reduce carbon footprints and running costs.

 

The programme will be open for Round one applications in August 2011.

http://www.sportengland.org/about_us/places_people_play/inspired_facilities.aspx

 

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Sport England Small Grants

 

The Sport England Small Grants Programme uses lottery funding to make awards of between £300 and £10,000 to not-for-profit organisations to deliver new community projects to either grow or sustain participation in sport or to support talent development.

 

This application is worth spending a little time over and there are plenty of resources available on the website to help guide you through the process.

 

http://www.sportengland.org/funding/small_grants.aspx

 

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SportsMatch

 

Sportsmatch makes awards to not-for-profit organisations that have secured sponsorship to deliver new community projects to grow or sustain participation in sport.

 

Sportsmatch uses money from the government to encourage new sponsorship of grassroots community sport.

 

Awards of between £1,000 and £100,000 can be made to match funding from no more than five sponsors, with each sponsor contributing a minimum of £1,000. Sport England funding for the project must be spent by 31 March 2012.

 

http://www.sportengland.org/funding/sportsmatch.aspx

 

Closing date Sep 19 2011

 

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£2.6 million funding boost to get more disabled people playing sport

Disability sport has been given a boost as Sport England revealed how £2.6 million of investment will help increase the number of disabled people playing sport – and make grassroots sport more inclusive.

For the first time Sport England will be directly funding five disability sports organisations to advise, support and guide other sports bodies as they create opportunities for participation by disabled people. In total these organisations will receive £1.1 million of National Lottery funding.

In addition, the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) has been awarded £1.5 million of Exchequer funding to accelerate its strategy to increase sports participation by disabled people.

Currently one in 15 disabled adults play sport regularly compared to one in six of the overall population.

The five disability sports organisations to benefit from the investment are:

• British Blind Sport
• Cerebral Palsy Sport
• Dwarf Sport Association UK
• British Wheelchair Sport
• UK Deaf Sport
  

To improve the way expertise on disability sport is shared, EFDS will now act as a single point of contact for national governing bodies of sport and other sporting groups. EFDS will pull in impairment-specific information, support and advice from the other six disability organisations and help ensure a consistent approach.

View the full press release

 

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If you would like to discuss any aspect of these funding programme please call the Sport England Funding Helpline and speak to a member of staff on

08458 508 508.