The Community Investment Fund (CIF) is the National Lottery funding available from the nine regions of Sport England.
Sport England’s nine Regional Sports Boards make decisions about community funding (grants over £10,000) to projects in their region. In the West Midlands the Regional Sports Board has members with expertise from key sectors including: key regional agencies, sport, commerce, education and skills, health, regeneration, etc. When making investment decisions the Board looks for evidence that projects will help meet our aim of getting more people taking part in sport and active recreation.
Following the approval of the Community Investment Fund (CIF) Investment Strategy in March 2007, Sport England has worked with partners to develop over 100 projects to increase and sustain participation in sport and active recreation. To date, projects with a CIF value of over £11 million are in development potentially delivering 180,000 new participants by 2011.
CIF open application process
Due to the success of the strategy the level of actual and budgeted commitments is approaching the total amount of CIF funding available. The West Midlands Regional Sports Board has therefore agreed that a series of application rounds should be introduced to ensure that CIF funding is available until the end of the current strategy in March 2009.
Details of the timetable and allocation for each round are set out in the table below:
Round |
Period covered |
Dates for Stage 2 submission |
Allocation |
Date of decision |
Round 1 |
30 November 2007 to 31 March 2008 |
4 February 2008 to 18 February 2008 |
£200,000 |
31 March 2008 |
Round 2 |
1 April 2008 to 30 June 2008 |
5 May 2008 to 19 May 2008 |
£200,000 |
30 June 2008 |
Round 3 |
1 July 2008 to 30 September 2008 |
4 August 2008 to 18 August 2008 |
£200,000 |
30 September 2008 |
Round 4 |
1 October 2008 to 31 December 2008 |
27 October 2008 to 10 November 2008 |
£200,000 |
22 December 2008 |
Round 5 |
1 January 2009 to 31 March 2009 |
2 February 2009 to 16 February 2009 |
£100,000 |
31 March 2009 |
A question and answer sheet has been prepared to give advice to potential applicants - please view
Further information can be obtained from Greg Ward, SEWM Investment Manager, tel 020 7273 1794 e mail: greg.ward@sportengland.org or Eve Hawketts, Assistant Investment Manager, tel 020 7273 1804 e mail: eve.hawketts@sportengland.org
Please view the following documents that will explain how the West Midlands manage and distribute CIF:
An introduction to the Community Investment Fund in the West Midlands
Community Investment Fund: Investment strategy for the West Midlands
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Sport England West Midlands Community Investment Fund: Regional criteria – April 2007.
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Sub regional investment portfolios
The Regional Sports Board agreed that a more proactive and strategic approach to Community Investment Fund (CIF) investment was required together with a delivery model to bring forward high quality bids from partners. In line with other Sport England regions a sub regional portfolio model has been developed. This involves county sport partnerships (CSPs) and partner organisations developing a group of bids within a portfolio which is aimed at achieving strategic priorities at a sub regional and local level.
Please view more information on the sub regional portfolios
Please view more information on the funding process on the main Sport England website
Please see news on the latest CIF awards made in the region - read the news
There are some interesting case studies to view on funded projects - take a look
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