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 - we will invest 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, we will invest 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 2011/12
|
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 deliver programmes specfic to
young people. |
£18m
Exchequer |
| Sub-total solicited funding (max) |
£158m |
Open funding
Fund description
|
Indicative funding for 2011/12
|
| |
|
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
|
|
Inspired
Facilities
Grants of between £20,000-£50,000 for
capital projects in the community. It is investing £50 million of
National Lottery funding in up to 1000 community sports projects
between 2011 and 2014.
|
£10m Lottery
|
Protecting Playing
Fields
The programme is inviting applications for
projects that help communities maximise the sporting benefits of
playing field land. £10 million of National Lottery funding in
community sports projects over three years from
2011-2014.
|
£3m Lottery |
Mixed solicited/open
Fund description
|
Indicative funding
for 2011/12
|
Facilities Investment
Iconic Facilities fund
This fund draws on the inspirational pull of London 2012 to
create local beacons for grassroots sport. We are investing £30m
over the next three years in innovative, large-scale, multi-sport
facilities' projects that are regionally significant for at least
two sports and can demonstrate long-term financial
viability.
|
£30m over the next
three years |
Additionality
Sport England’s Lottery Funding should be
distinct from statutory funding and adds additional value to
community sport. Lottery funding decisions are independent of
Government whilst being compliant with legislation and in
addressing additionality Sport England will adopt the following
principles:
- Adding additional value to community
sport is at the heart of what we do.
- Proceeds of the National Lottery should be
used to fund projects, or aspects of projects, that the Government
is unlikely to fund. If Exchequer money is clearly not available,
nor likely to be available, and no private sector funding is
available, Sport England can fund with Lottery money. If Exchequer
funding subsequently becomes available for an area previously
funded by the Lottery, then Lottery funding could be withdrawn but
only where there was a reasonable expectation that it will be
funded by Government. This would not be applicable if
additional funding provides added benefit that would otherwise not
be obtained.
- Additionality principles should not preclude
using Lottery funding to complement other sources of statutory
funding including Sport England’s own Exchequer budgets as long as
there is a clear distinction between the uses of each and an
opportunity arises to add additional value to existing
schemes.
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