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Sport England is focused on three outcomes - to grow and sustain participation and to create opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport. All funding applications should support at least one of these outcomes.
Sport England will only invest in recognised sports. Make sure the sport you want funding for is in this list before starting work on your application.
All four sports councils and UK Sport work together to agree which sports they do and don't recognise
Information about other organisations that may be able to to invest in your project.
Sport England is committed to the creation of a world-leading community sport system. This means focusing our investment on organisations and projects that will grow and sustain participation in grassroots sport and create opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport.
In addition to our investment in key partners to deliver specific objectives, we are launching funding programmes open to a wide range of organisations. These include sports clubs, voluntary or community organisations, local authorities, schools, colleges and universities.
The funding programmes are:
Sport England also administers the Free Swimming Capital Modernisation Programme on behalf of Government. Funding is available for improvements to publicly accessible swimming pools in local authority or maintained school ownership.
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