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.