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Sources of funding for sport
Please visit the main Sport England web pages to see where you can obtain funding for sports projects.
Sport England’s guide
Download our * guide 'Sources of funding for sport'
*Please note that this guide was last updated in October 2006.
Awards for All
Awards for All England is the small grants programme run by the Big Lottery Fund on behalf of Lottery good cause funders - the Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England. More than 78,000 awards have been rolled out since the scheme began to a variety of projects including sport, heritage, education, environment, health and others that benefit the local community.
Visit the website
Please note that the Awards for All programme will significantly change from April 2009. Please read the press release to obtain more information
National Sports Foundation (NSF)
This is a Government led initiative designed to facilitate and encourage partnership between private investors and community sports projects in England. They do this by matching new and additional private investment with NSF funding, on a pound-for-pound basis. The NSF fund provides a great opportunity for both investors and community sport organisations to work together to improve the sporting infrastructure of the country.
View their website for more information
Lottery funding in general
'Lottery Funding' is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK.
This site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK.
Big Lottery Fund
People across the country are be able to access information on all current opportunities for funding through the Big Lottery Fund good cause virtual doorway.
Visit their website for the West Midlands
Sports projects have been very successful in the past at securing funding through the various programmes developed by the Big Lottery Fund.
West Midlands Lottery Forum
Through this group our officers work with the other lottery funding bodies, which include: Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund.
At regular meetings they exchange information, examples of good practice and discuss areas where joint working is possible.
County Sports Partnership websites giving funding information:
Black Country Consortium Ltd – funding information on their website
Coventry Solihull Warwickshire Sport – funding information on their website
Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent – funding information on their website
Sports Partnership Herefordshire and Worcestershire – funding information on their website
Local authority website
Many local authorities have funding advice on their website. Try searching their sites to see what information they have. An example of this is on Coventry City Council’s site – take a look.
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