Funding Streams
Protected Playing Fields
The programme from Sport England awards around £4 million in each of eight funding rounds. It supports projects which create new natural turf pitches or improve existing ones that need leveling or drainage works. This might be a busy round.
The deadline is 24 March.
The webpages contain information and guidance on how to apply, how your application will be assessed and what they’re looking for.
To find out more click here; http://www.sportengland.org/funding/our-different-funds/protecting-playing-fields/
SITA Trust
SITA Trust’s Fast Track Fund is currently open until 24th February 2014 for applications from voluntary and community groups, parish councils, local authorities and charities. The fund can support community facilities, sport and recreation facilities or historic buildings.
The proposed facility must be located within 3 miles of a qualifying SITA waste processing location.
Grants of up to £20,000 are available for projects with an overall cost of no more than £40,000. Decisions on submitted applications are made within 60 days.
See the SITA Trust website for full details of a Contributing Third Party Payment necessary to secure funding and to check whether your facility falls within the qualifying area.
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Cash 4 Clubs
This scheme is funded by Betfair and SportsAid to facilitate fundraising for community sports clubs throughout the country. Clubs must be registered with their National Governing Body or Local authority. Awards average £1,000 each.
The next round is open until the end of February, for awards distributed in March.
The application form is here: http://www.cash-4-clubs.com/apply-for-a-grant/application-form.php
sported.
sported. is the UK’s leading sport for development charity. They welcome applications for membership from Not-for-profit organisations working with 11-25 year olds from disadvantaged communities, and who are using sport to improve the lives of individuals and communities.
sported. membership and services are free of charge.
The support available includes funding, access to web based development resources, online experts, an insurance offer, mentoring on the business side of your project (e.g. business planning, marketing, policies and procedures) and for groups who have gone through the mentoring scheme there is a larger grants programme available for application.
They currently have two grant schemes open exclusively to members:
- Small grants – this scheme offers grants up to £2,000 to any sported. member that hasn’t been supported by a Mentor. The funding is to support financial needs of your organisation
- Large grants – available to groups who are being supported by a Mentor and are part of a wider package of business support. The average grant in this scheme is £6,000 and sported. are able to support salaries, overheads and programme delivery costs
To find out more click here; Please click here for more information.
GLL Sports Foundation
Applications are open for talented young sports men and women across the UK to apply for funding for 2014 from the GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) – an independent athlete support scheme which works in partnership with England Athletics through national charity SportsAid to support the next generation of sporting talent. Rising sport stars have until 20 February 2014 to apply for a share of the GSF funding pot of £1million.
To apply and find out further details of the scheme please go to the GSF website at www.gllsportfoundation.org.
Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund
The new Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund opened on Monday 20 January 2014.
The Fund, which is available to football clubs, schools, councils and local sports associations, is focused on supporting the development of new or refurbished local football facilities, and replaces the previous Facilities Scheme, Build the Game and the Premier League Community Facility Fund.
Managed by the Football Foundation on behalf of the funding partners – the Premier League, The FA and Government, via Sport England – the Fund is a three-year £102m commitment to improving the nation’s grassroots football facilities.
To find out more click here; http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk/news/archive/premier-league-the-fa-facilities-fund/
Grow the Game
The Foundation’s Grow the Game Scheme provides grants of up to £1,500 for the creation of new football teams and coaching qualifications, with money provided by the Premier League and The FA. The Scheme is delivered by the Foundation.
To find out more click here; http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk/funding-schemes/grow-the-game/?utm_source=Lancashire+Sport+Partnership+Newsletter&utm_campaign=478dbc075f-Jan141_28_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65fe62e991-478dbc075f-45693413
New £18m fund to improve primary school sports facilities
From 2014 onwards primary schools across England will be able to benefit from £18 million of National Lottery funding to improve sports facilities in schools.
The new funding pot announced today by the Chancellor of the Exchequer during his Autumn Statement will help primary schools which have little or no outside space which can currently be used for P.E. and sport to get more young people active.
The Primary School Sport Facilities Fund will be run by Sport England and will open to expressions of interest in Spring 2014.
For further information click here; http://www.sportengland.org/our-work/children-and-young-people/primary-school-sport-facilities-fund/
Funding News
David Cameron offers guarantee on primary school sport funding
No 10 hopes pledge of £150m a year under Tory government will reassure headteachers that funds will keep coming after 2015
David Cameron has pledged £150m a year in primary school sport funding guaranteed until 2020 if the Conservatives are re-elected, to secure the Olympic and Paralympic legacy.
A two-year dedicated English primary school PE fund was announced in March and began in September 2013, but there has been uncertainty in schools over whether the funding will stop after the election, and some headteachers have been reluctant to take up the funding this year or undertake any capital investment.
For more information click here; http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/06/david-cameron-guarantee-school-sport-funding
Rio 2016: Four sports suffer Olympic funding cut
Basketball, synchronised swimming, water polo and weightlifting have all had their Olympic funding withdrawn.
UK Sport has decided to put money into other sports ahead of the Rio Games in 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
Three Paralympic sports – wheelchair fencing, goalball and five-a-side football – have suffered the same fate.
To find out more click here; http://www.funding4sport.co.uk/wp-admin/post-new.php
Other News
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FREE webinar on changes to DBS checks for sport organisations
Since The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) merged into The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), many sporting Barring Service (DBS), many sporting bodies still have questions surrounding the new Enhanced Disclosure process.
TMGCRB, part of the GB Group, are providing a series of FREE webinars designed to clearly explain what the changes mean for sporting bodies working with children, how they may affect their policies and procedures and how an online system will simplify the process for you.
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· Single Certificate Application
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· X61 Position Applied for (Workforce)
· Filtering rules
These webinars are simple to attend, do not require any special technology and completely FREE.
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click here Flood guidance – helping sports clubs be prepared
Floods can have a devastating impact on sports clubs, causing significant damage to both changing and social facilities as well as to sports pitches.
There is much that can be done to help reduce the risk of flood damage and mitigate its impact when it occurs. Sport England, working with a number of national governing bodies for sport (The FA, RFU, RFL, ECB, LTA and EHB), has produced a set of information sheets and a downloadable template for clubs and facility managers to help them find out whether their facilities are at risk of flooding and if so how to develop a flood plan and other strategies that will help reduce the impact of flooding.
To view these click here; http://sportengland.org/facilities-planning/tools-guidance/flood-guidance/
Children gripped by ‘crisis of inactivity’, says sports chief
Britain is suffering a “crisis of inactivity” that is driving up obesity levels and damaging children’s performance at school, according to the former head of UK Sport.
Baroness Sue Campbell warned that “sedentary lifestyles” and pressures on time had led to a marked dip on the amount of exercise taken by pupils.
