The Community Investment Fund is now closed to new Stage 1 applications.
For information on Sport England’s new funding programmes, please click here to read our funding strategy, Funding sport in the community. Please call 08458 508 508 should you require further information.
Sport England is the government agency responsible for developing a world-class community sports system.
Our radical new strategy is designed to get more people playing and enjoying sport and to help those with talent get to the very top.
The new approach is designed to capitalise on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity presented by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and to use its power to inspire more people to take part in and succeed in sport.
The strategy commits Sport England to deliver on a series of demanding targets by 2012/13:
- one million more people doing more sport
- a 25% reduction in the number of 16 year olds who drop out of five key sports
- improved talent development systems in at least 25 sports
- a measurable increase in people’s satisfaction with their experience of sport – the first time the organisation has set such a qualitative measure
- a major contribution to the delivery of the five hour sports offer for children and young people.
Sport England is working closely with the national governing bodies of sport to deliver the new strategy, and will also build strong partnerships with local authorities.
It will reduce bureaucracy by combining its multiple funding streams into a single pot of funding for governing bodies.
And it will consult on a new, more streamlined method of funding wider community projects.
You can download a copy of the Sport England 2008-2011 Strategy here
Sport England Strategy 2008-2011: Full Narrative (PDF)
You can download a copy of the Sport England 2008-2011 Executive Summary here:
Sport England Strategy 2008-2011: Executive Summary (PDF)
Funding
Sport England has published a new funding strategy, setting out the investment programmes that will be available to organisations delivering grassroots sport from April 2009.
Funding sport in the community explains how investment will be focussed on organisations and projects that can deliver the key outcomes of Sport England’s overall strategy.
Sports clubs, voluntary and community organisations, local authorities and education establishments will be able to apply to these four open-access funding streams worth a maximum of £45 million per year:
- Up to £30 million will be invested via regular themed funding rounds that meet specific needs of community sport
- £7 million will be available in small grants of between £300 and £10,000 to support sporting projects across England
- £3 million will be distributed through Sportsmatch, enabling community clubs to make the most of the funding they receive from the private sector by matching that investment
- £5 million will be invested, through a new Innovation Fund, in projects that identify and pilot new ways of promoting and supporting grassroots sport.
Sport England will also invest £10 million per year of capital funding in projects that promote a sustainable approach to community facilities. This capital funding will be in addition to the facilities funding awarded to national governing bodies of sport (NGBs).
Sport England will also invest in partner organisations such as NGBs, county sports partnerships and other national partners including Sporting Equals and the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation to deliver specific objectives.
Click here to read Funding sport in the community, which includes more details on each of the funding programmes and a timetable of further announcements.
As Sport England moves to the new funding programmes, the Community Investment Fund is being wound up. New stage 1 applications are no longer being accepted, but all applications already being considered by Sport England will be processed as normal.
Stage 1 applications received before 5pm on 6 January 2009 are now being assessed. Details of what happens to your application next can be read here
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