Alphabet of Sports Funding. ‘S’ is for…..

Satellite Clubs

Sport England is working in partnership with national governing bodies of sport (NGBs) and county sport partnerships (CSPs) by investing over £49 million of Lottery funding into the development of Satellite Clubs.

Satellite Clubs aims to prevent this by making the transition from school group to community club easier. Satellite Clubs or outposts of existing community sports clubs, many of which are based on school or college sites, will help us get more people playing sport. They will also ensure more young people are able to continue to take part in sport as they transition from school to community sport.

Satellite Clubs will help you earn more revenue for your club by attracting new members and keeping them over the long run. And don’t forget it’s a new way to find young leaders and volunteers.

Funding for these Satellite Clubs vary and more information for your area can be found via your County Sports Partnership; http://www.cspnetwork.org/en/your_csp/ or National Governing Body ; http://www.sportengland.org/about_us/recognition_of_sports_and_ngbs.aspx

To find out more click here; http://www.clublinks.sportengland.org

Santander Foundation

The Santander Foundation funds local, regional and national charities for their work within the UK. We are committed to helping disadvantaged people through our two charitable priorities. Formerly the Abbey Charitable Trust, the Foundation was set up in 1990 and has given more than £36 million to charities in the UK.

Grants of up to £5,000 (Community Plus) and £10,000 (Central Fund) are available to Charitable organisations.

To find out more click here; http://www.santanderfoundation.org.uk

Sir Steve Redgrave Fund

The Fund aims to use the power of sport and sporting activity to bring about positive change in the lives of disadvantaged children, young people and their communities.
Funding is for community groups, small charities and schools.

To find out more click here; www.steveredgravefund.com

SITA Trust

Last year communities across the country successfully applied for £1 million of SITA Trust grants protecting a further 52 fields. The funding resulted in new play trails, walking tracks, multi-use games areas and rejuvenated pavilions. Following this success, SITA Trust has generously allocated another £750,000 for QEII Fields.

The QEII Fields Fund has been developed in partnership with Fields in Trust (FiT). The fund provides the opportunity for sports and recreation fields that have gained a Deed of Dedication through FiT’s Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge to apply to SITA Trust for funding of up to £25,000. Funding is available for projects that will make physical improvements to facilities provided at sports/recreation fields. There are currently nearly 50 protected fields across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough thanks to the QEII Fields Fund.

Next deadline is the 22^nd July

To find out more click here; http://www.sitatrust.org.uk/community-funding

Sport Relief – Community Foundation Programme

Sport Relief aims to support projects that use sport and exercise to strengthen communities and provide opportunities for people who are excluded or disadvantaged.

It focuses on community groups that are using sport and exercise to: increase access to sport and exercise for people who face social exclusion and isolation.
Grants are available up to £10,000.

To find out more click here; http://ukcommunityfoundations.org/index.php?/community_foundations/looking_for_funding/comic_relief/

Sported
If your organisation uses sport to improve the lives of young people then you can join Sported as a member where you will be able to access funding, online resources and real experts who can help you do what you do best – improve the lives of young people through sport.

Once you've been accepted as a Member of sported you can discuss funding options with the Regional Manager. They offer members two types of grants

Sported will consider funding salaries, running costs/overheads and programme delivery costs. They also consider supporting projects for more than one year, but funding will always be offered as part of a wider support package to ensure the on-going development of your project or organisation.

Generally we will not help fund large capital expenses such as building facilities.

Grants are available as follows;

Small grant of up to £2,000. This one-off grant is available to all Members,
Large grant between £2,000 and £10,000.

To find out more click here; http://www.sported.org.uk/

Sport England - Community Sport Activation Fund

The Community Sport Activation Fund is a £40 million Lottery revenue fund developed to support grassroots activity at a very local level.

The Fund was designed in response to demand and will aim to unlock potential and resources. We will not prescribe how projects will deliver but will invest in what works best in different areas, based on local evidence.

Projects the fund is aimed at

The kinds of projects we expect to fund include:

Activities reflecting a broad range of sports
Informal opportunities which could lead to regular participation
Multi-sport activities which provide people with a range of choices and opportunities to suit them
Family orientated activities with a focus on 14 plus age group
Local activator roles that focus on directly organising and delivering new opportunities for participation.

The best projects for this fund will demonstrate the following key characteristics:

A focus on a clearly defined geographical area and community
Demonstrable understanding of sporting needs
Evidence of what potential participants want or need in order to take part in sport once a week
Local partners working together to deliver and help fund the project
A clear and robust delivery plan
Realistic, but ambitious, numbers for increasing and sustaining once a week participation

Funding rounds

There are five opportunities to apply for this Fund over the next four years (two of which have now passed). Given the number of opportunities to apply Sport England are encouragig you to apply only once you have your project is ready.

Round 3 - November 2013 – January 2014
Round 4 - May 2014 – June 2014
Round 5 - April 2015 – June 2015

Sportivate

Sportivate is a £32 million Lottery programme that aims to capture the excitement of sport and the London 2012 Games by providing opportunities for teenagers and young adults (aged 14-25) to receive coaching in a sport of their choice and guide them into regular participation within their community through access to six to eight week activity programmes in a range of sports.

The programme which runs until March 2015 is aimed at those who are not currently choosing to take part in sport in their own time, or are doing so for a very limited amount of time, and will support them to continue playing sport in their community after the six or eight weeks is up.

Sportivate is fully inclusive and targets participants across this group, including young people who have a disability, males and females and people from people BME groups.

To find out more visit your CSP; http://www.cspnetwork.org/en/your_csp/

To find example bids visit www.funding4sport.co.uk

Sport England’s Small Grants

Sport England’s Small Grants uses Lottery funding to make awards of between £300 and £10,000 to not-for-profit organisations to help more young people (aged 14+) and adults take part and keep a sporting habit for life.

To find out more click here; http://www.sportengland.org/funding/our-different-funds/small-grants/

To find an example bids visit www.funding4sport.co.uk

Sport England Protecting Playing Fields

Playing fields are one of the most important resources for sport in England but many of them are waterlogged or in a state of disrepair. Sport England are investing £15 million of National Lottery funding into improving community sports fields.

The programme is being delivered via five funding rounds with around £3 million being awarded to projects in each round. The first four rounds of funding has benefited 235 projects who have been able to either create new natural turf pitches or improve existing ones that needed leveling or drainage works.

Round 5 opened on 10 June 2013 and will close on 5 August 2013.

To find out more click here; http://www.sportengland.org/funding/our-different-funds/protecting-playing-fields/

Sport England’s Inspired Facilities

Sport England’s Inspired Facilities is focused on making it easier for local community and volunteer groups to improve and refurbish sports clubs or transform non-sporting venues into modern grassroots sport facilities.

The Inspired Facilities fund could help you refurbish or upgrade your sports facility; or convert an existing building into a venue suitable for sport and accessible to the whole community.

To find out more click here; http://www.sportengland.org/funding/our-different-funds/inspired-facilities/

To view an example bid visit; www.funding4sport.co.uk

Funding Streams

Premier League and Sport England reveal funding drive

The Premier League and Sport England have jointly committed a combined total of £16.8m to helpencourage youth sports participation for three years.
The equally funded investment will see Premier League 4 Sport (PL4Sport) receive £3m a year and Kickz £2.6m.

To find out more click here; http://www.funding4sport.co.uk/2013/07/02/premier-league-and-sport-england-reveal-funding-drive/

Mayors Sports Participation Fund

The Sports Participation Fund is a key part of the Mayor’s Sports Legacy Programme and invests in grassroots sports organisations, to get more Londoners playing sport, more often.

So far the programme has funded:

grassroots sports organisations across every London borough to the tune of £5.5m
hundreds of projects – from BMX to dance to rugby – across 35 individual programmes, with over 250,000 individuals benefiting, with more than 10% previously ‘inactive’
some projects are based purely on boosting participation and others use sport to help tackle specific social issues.

To find out more click here; http://www.funding4sport.co.uk/2013/07/03/mayors-sports-participation-fund/

Funding News

Swimming funding boost for Scottish school children

Primary schoolchildren in Scotland will continue to have access to free swimming lessons following a £500,000 funding boost from the Scottish Government over the next two years.

To find out more click here; http://www.funding4sport.co.uk/2013/07/03/swimming-funding-boost-for-scottish-schoolchildren/

Funding boost for British Ski and Snowboard ahead of Sochi 2014

UK Sport have given British ski and snowboard hopefuls an additional Â£211,000 in funding.

To find out more click here; http://www.skiclub.co.uk/skiclub/news/story.aspx?storyID=8935#.UdMgSdKTiSo

Legacy promises – what were they, where are we and what’s changed?

When we won the right to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games five promises were made regarding the long-term benefits they would bring to the UK.
They were:

To make the UK a world-leading sporting nation
To transform the heart of East London
To inspire a generation of young people
To make the Olympic Park a blueprint for sustainable living
To demonstrate that the UK is a creative, inclusive and welcoming place to live in, to visit and for business.

So where are we now?

To find out more click here; http://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/blog/patrickcoyne/27-06-2013/legacy-promises-%E2%80%93-what-they-were-where-we-are-and-what%E2%80%99s-changed

What does the latest Spending Round mean for sport and recreation?

James Allen, head of policy at the Sport and Recreation Alliance digs deep into the world of sports policy and discusses the latest Spending Round and what it means for sport and recreation.

To find out more click here; http://www.sportandrecreation.org.uk/blog/james-allen/27-06-2013/what-does-latest-spending-round-mean-sport-and-recreation

Harriet Harman blasts "woeful" coverage of women's sports and "ridiculous" men-only clubs

Although 36% of Team GB medals were won by women at the Olympics, women’s sport received just 0.5% of total sponsorship money.

Women’s sport is being held back by old-fashioned television coverage and “ridiculous” men-only sporting clubs, warned Harriet Harman.

She also slammed the inequality in funding for male and female sports and demanded equal prize money for men and women in sporting competitions.

To find out more click here; http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/harriet-harman-blasts-woeful-coverage-2013766

Big Welcome to….

Funding 4 Sport would like to say a big welcome to those organisations who have taken up our corporate memberships and joined in partnership with Funding 4 Sport over the last month.
These organisations include; Amateur Swimming Association and Hampshire Cricket Board. We are look forward to working with you over the next year.

Funding 4 Sport are currently in discussions with National Governing Bodies and County Sports Partnerships who are also considering a corporate membership. If your organisation is interested in taking up a corporate membership or would just like more information regarding these then please don’t hesitate to contact us at email; info@funding4sport.co.uk