What we do
Creating a sporting habit for life
Sport England strategy 2012-17
The 2012-17 Youth and Community Strategy for
Sport England was
launched in January 2012.
It describes how we will invest over
£1billion of National Lottery and Exchequer funding over five
years into four main areas of work.
National Governing Body 2013-17 funding
NGB 13-17 funding is the
centrepiece of our strategy. We will invest over £450 million in
work with national governing bodies of sport (
NGBs
).
Young people (14-25 years old) will benefit from 60%
of this investment. Programmes will include helping young people
move from school sport into club sport and working with
universities and colleges to create more sporting opportunities for
students.
Additional funding will be available to governing bodies that are
successfully increasing participation. We will also help NGBs with
their governance.
Facilities
Facilities underpin our work. We will build on the
success of Places People Play, and will
create new funding streams for mid-range facilities, facility
improvements and new facilities.
Including Places People Play, our total investment into
facilities will be over £250 million).
Local investment
Local investment is vital to making sure
our work reaches into the heart of our communities. It provides new
opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas and
capitalises on NGB investment, helping it go
further.
Our investment will include a new community sport activation fund,
and a Door Step Clubs programme to create sustainable clubs for
young people in the most deprived areas.
New resources to deliver sport in further
education colleges will be made available, as well as funding
for county sports partnerships, coaching, volunteering and
disability.
We are investing over £250 million in this work.
The School Games
The School Games will motivate and inspire
millions of young people across the the chance to take part in
competitive school sport.
There are four levels of competition - school, local, regional,
and national - and the programme is desgined to be inclusive, so
young people of all abilities and skills can join in.
We are funding the School Games for the next
three years, up to 2015.
At the same time, we are working with the
education sector to improve community access to schools,
colleges and academy sports facilities with targeted funding to
help make this happen
Our plans
Our overall ambition is to increase the number of people who play
sports regularly and reduce the number of young people who stop
playing when they finish school.
Funding for governing bodies
will be tied to their own specific participation targets.
Our goals for 2012-17 are:
- Every one of the 4,000 secondary schools in England will be
offered a community sport club on its site with a direct link to
one or more NGBs, depending on the local clubs in its area.
- County sports partnerships will be given new resources to
create effective links locally between schools and sport in the
community.
- All secondary schools who wish to do so will be helped to open
up, or keep open, their sports facilities for local community use
and at least a third of these will receive additional funding to
make this happen.
- At least 150 further education colleges will benefit from
full-time sports professional who will act as a College Sport
Maker.
- Three quarters of university students aged 18-24 will get the
chance to take up a new sport or continue playing a sport they
played at school or college.
- A thousand of our most disadvantaged local communities will get
a Door Step Club.
- Two thousand young people on the margins of society will be
encouraged by the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust into sport,
gaining new life skills at the same time.
- Building on the early success of Places People Play, a further
£100m will be invested in facilities for the most popular sports,
for example new artificial pitches and upgrading local swimming
pools.
- A minimum of 30 sports will have enhanced England Talent
Pathways to ensure young people and others fulfil their
potential.
Working with others to achieve our goals
We are working with a range of organisation to ensure success,
including:
- National governing bodies that will continue
to play a pivotal role as the stewards of their sport.
- County sports
partnerships that will support
NGBs
, foster local links and
help young people make the move from playing sport in schools
to enjoying it in the community once they leave.
- Local
authorities that will support and work with through our
advocacy tools and investment including a new community activation
fund.
- Partners
including the equality groups, StreetGames, the
Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy
Trust, the Youth
Sport Trust and others that will add value and support the
delivery of sport.
We also recognise that there
is considerable expertise within the private and third
sector. So we welcome the opportunity to engage with any
organisations with innovative ideas and a track record in designing
and delivering participation projects and programmes.
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