About Us

Sport England is focused on helping people and communities across the country create a sporting habit for life

We will invest over £1 billion of National Lottery and Exchequer funding between 2012 and 2017 in organisations and projects that will:

• Help more people have a sporting habit for life

• Create more opportunities for young people to play sport

• Nurture and develop talent

• Provide the right facilities in the right places

• Support local authorities and unlock local funding

• Ensure real opportunities for communities

Find out more about our strategy and our structure.

We are accountable to Parliament through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

We also have a role protecting sports provision and must be formally consulted on any English planning applications that affect playing fields.

You can keep up with all our latest news by checking our news page and, to make sure you don't miss out on important announcements, you can sign up to receive our email newsletter, latest from the pitch.