Funding for sports clubs
If you need funding for your Sports club there are a number of different options available to you. Funding provisions for clubs are available both locally and nationally.
For help, advice and support simply get in touch with your Local Authority Sports Development Team. They can make you aware of any Local Resources available, in addition to supporting an application to National Agencies who distribute funding with differing criteria.
Funding
Sport Unlimited (formerly known as Extending Activities) is a national programme aiming to encourage 'semi-sporty' young people aged between 5-19 to become more active.
Sport Unlimited is an integral part of the Government's PE and Sport Strategy for Young People (often referred to as the 5-Hour Offer). The Sport Unlimited element of the 5-Hour Offer will provide a range of attractive and sustainable opportunities in sporting activities for young people from the 'semi-sporty population segment' to take part in out of school hours during term time.
The national target is for 900,000 young people to be taking part regularly, in 2 additional hours of sport by 2011. It will be delivered through a plan led by North Yorkshire Sport in conjunction with a range of local delivery organisations such as School Sports Partnerships, Local Authorities, Community Sports networks and other partners.
For more information on the Sport Unlimited programme in Richmondshire contact Lesley Williams via
lesley.williams@richmondshire.gov.uk.
Sport England is creating a world-leading community sport system. Sport England is committed to the creation of a world-leading community sport system. As the Sport England strategy explains, this means investing funds and working with partners to achieve three outcomes:
- Grow - Increasing regular participation in sport by one million by 2012/13 and working with the Youth Sport Trust to enable young people to access at least five hours of sport a week
- Sustain - Sustaining current participation in sport by ensuring that participants have a high quality experience and working to reduce the “drop-off” in sports participation between the ages of 16 and 18.
- Excel - Developing and accelerating talent by investing in individual sports, making sure that many more talented performers move on to elite programmes and sporting success.
Awards for All, England offers grants of between £300 and £10,000 for projects that improve communities, and the lives of people within them. It is for voluntary and community groups, schools and health organisations, parish and town councils.
For more information on Awards for All funds, click on the link below:
http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/index.html
The Sport England Sportsmatch programme increases investment in community sport by matching sponsorship money pound for pound. Sportsmatch is funded by Sport England to support the development of grassroots sport in England. It makes awards to organisations running projects aimed at increasing participation in sports at community level. We do this through matching eligible funding invested in community sport.
For more information on Sportsmatch funds, click on the link below.
http://funding.sportengland.org/funding_programmes/sportsmatch.aspx
Football Foundation provide grants for a number of different schemes. These range from the ‘Facilities Scheme’ to improve facilities for community benefit, the ‘Community Large Grants Scheme’ to create opportunities
http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk/our-schemes/