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Funding Sport In The Community
Sport England today published details of future investment programmes available to community sports groups as part of our new funding strategy.
Funding sport in the community sets out how we will focus our investment on grassroots organisations and projects that can deliver the key outcomes of our overall strategy - 'grow, sustain and excel'.
From April 2009, we will be accepting applications to these four funding streams worth a maximum of £45 million per year:
• Up to £30 million will be invested via regular themed funding rounds that meet specific needs of community sport
• £7 million will be available in small grants of between £300 and £10,000 to support sporting projects across England
• £3 million will be distributed through Sportsmatch, enabling community clubs to make the most of the funding they receive from the private sector by matching that investment
• £5 million will be invested, through a new Innovation Fund, in projects that identify and pilot new ways of promoting and supporting grassroots sport.
We will also invest £10 million per year of capital funding in projects that promote a sustainable approach to community facilities. This capital funding will be on top of the facilities funding we award to national governing bodies of sport (NGBs).
The development of all of these programmes has benefited from the input of the many partners who took part in our public consultation on National Lottery investment in grassroots sport.
Jennie Price, Chief Executive of Sport England, said:
"We have designed this strategy to strike a balance between making a long-term commitment to our key partners and ensuring a wider range of organisations - particularly smaller sports clubs - can continue to access Sport England funding.
"It also has a degree of flexibility because we will be identifying different themes each year, and I hope that a wide range of organisations - including some that have not worked with Sport England before - will be putting in bids."
Funding sport in the community also sets out the funding for 46 NGBs that we announced last month as well as how we will fund other partner organisations to deliver specific objectives:
• £10 million will be invested in county sports partnerships, which will support NGBs to deliver their outcomes and Sport England programmes
• £10 million will be distributed to our national partners such as Sporting Equals and the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation to support the delivery of agreed outcomes
• £18 million of Exchequer funding will be invested in programmes and organisations that contribute to the Government's five hour sports offer for 5- to 19-year-olds.
Click here~(ATTACHED) to read Funding sport in the community, which includes more details on each of the funding programmes and a timetable of further announcements.
• Please note that today is the final day for Stage 1 applications to the Community Investment Fund (CIF), which is being wound up. All applications already being considered by Sport England will be processed as normal.
• The Awards for All England programme is coming to an end in its existing format on 31 March. Until then applications can still be submitted to the existing scheme, which is run as a joint programme supported by the Big Lottery Fund, Sport England, Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund. Click here (http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/england/) for more details on Awards for All and the changes being made to Lottery small grants schemes.
• From April, applications for small grants to support sporting projects should be submitted to either Sport England's new small grants scheme or Sportsmatch. For more details, please contact our shared service centre on 08458 508 508 .
To find out more about Sport England's new strategy: http://www.sportengland.org/index/get_resources/resource_downloads/sport_england_strategy.htm |
