Innovation Fund

Programme dates

The Innovation Fund closed to new applications on 10 August 2009

Innovation Fund update

It has taken us longer than anticipated to announce the Innovation Fund 2009/10 award decisions, with only one publicly announced decision so far.

This is because a number of the shortlisted projects have involved legal requirements which are taking us considerably longer to resolve than anticipated.

The outcome of these legal decisions will very much influence the type of innovation we are able to seek and the type of applicant organisations we are able to fund, so we have been unable to finalise our 2010/11 i-Fund plans.

We are expecting to be in a position to a) announce the rest of the 09/10 awards and b) finalise the i-Fund prospectus in September/October 2010.

We’re sorry for the delay. Watch this space for updates and more details.

About the Innovation Fund

The Innovation Fund creates innovative sporting opportunities enabling existing participants to do more, or to bring sport to those people who currently play sport only occasionally, or not at all.

The overall aim of this £5 million investment programme is to find and nurture genuine breakthroughs that will transform the way community sport looks and feels in the future. 

The fund will invest in new ideas and solutions which will reach a whole new audience, and provide better, more exciting opportunities to a wider range of people, some of whom, perhaps, think that sport is not for them. 

These ideas and solutions will help Sport England to succeed in growing participation and creating a world leading community sport system . 

Investment will be in small-scale but groundbreaking innovations which have the ability to become the scaled-up, widespread activities that deliver high quality community sport in future years.

Successful bids will help to deliver at least one of Sport England’s strategic aims of:

  • Grow: getting one million people doing more sport and working with the Youth Sport Trust to offer young people at least five hours of high quality sport a week
  • Sustain: increasing participants’ satisfaction with their sporting experience, and reducing the number of young people aged 16-18 who drop out of sport
  • Excel: improving talent development.

This is also a competitive fund. We anticipate making a small number of awards between £10,000 and £500,000 to between 10 and 20 projects. 

 

 

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