Funding sport in the community
Building a world-leading system is not simple, it requires
investment from us and our partners into a range of activities.
Some of these will have an immediate impact - such as providing
sporting equipment or floodlights for a hockey pitch.
Other investment will show results in the medium-term - such as
providing coaches or building new sports facilities.
Over the longer-term we will provide investment
in the people, organisations and networks that grow and sustain
participation in sport and lead on to sporting execellence.
Our funding programmes
Each of our funds has been carefully designed to
support the strategy. It will be distributed in two ways.
- Through solicited
applications - around £158 million a year will be
invested in organisations which have specific objectives
related to community sport, such as national governing bodies,
county sports partnerships and local authorities.
- Through open applications
- through open applications, a maximum of £45 million a year
is available for investment in a wide range of organisations.
Applications will be judged on their merits against
transparent and relevant criteria.
Solicited funding
Fund description
|
Indicative funding for 2009/10
|
National governing
bodies
Funding will be provided for up to 46 national governing bodies
based on their plans for the period 2009-2013. |
£120m
Comprising £66m Exchequer
£54m
Lottery
|
National partners
Partner funding will be based on to the delivery of agreed outcomes
linked to their specialist skills, knowledge or services. National
partners have been asked to submit a plan for 2009-13 which will be
assessed on its ability to both achieve its aims and offer value
for money |
£10m
Exchequer |
County sports
partnerships
We will fund a national network of county sports partnerships
to support national governing bodies, delivering their outcomes and
our programmes. |
£10m Lottery |
Children and young
people
Funding will be provided to national governing bodies and county
sports partnerships to help them contribute to the
Government's five hour sports offer. |
£18m
Exchequer |
| Sub-total solicited funding (max) |
£158m |
Open funding
Fund description
|
Indicative funding for 2009/10
|
Themed rounds
Projects which meet the criteria within a given themed round will
receive grants of over £10,000 to grow and sustain participation in
community sport. |
£30m
Lottery
|
Small Grants
Grants of between £300 and £10,000 will be provided to support
sport in communities. The application and award processes will
be as streamlined as possible. |
£7m
Lottery
|
|
Innovation
Fund
Funding will be provided to a limited number
of large projects to test out new ideas which could have wide
application. This area of funding may pose greater risk but offers
a larger potential reward.
|
£5m
Lottery |
Sportsmatch
Grants of
between £500 and £100,000 will be provided to clubs and other bona
fide organisations that need Sport England grants to bring in other
funding. |
£3m
Exchequer
|
| Sub-total open funding |
£45m |
Mixed solicited/open
Fund description
|
Indicative funding
for 2009/10
|
Facilities Investment
Sustainable Facilities Fund
Funding will be provided to support sustainable investment in major
sports facilities. This programme is additional to the
facilities funding that we are investing through national governing
bodies of sport.
|
£4m
Exchequer
£6m Lottery |
Total funding
| |
Indicative funding
for 2009/10
|
| Sub-total Exchequer funding (max) |
£105m |
| Sub-total Lottery funding (max) |
£108m |
| Total maximum funding |
£213m |
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