Sport England – Small Grants Programme

Description

Grants are available to help not-for-profit sports clubs, local authorities and schools in England to carry out local community sports projects and encourage more people to be involved in sport.

Current Status: Open for Applications

Maximum value: £ 15,000

Objectives of Fund

The Sport England Small Grants Programme aims to support local community sport projects that seek to encourage people in England, regardless of age, background or level of ability, to feel able to get involved in sport and physical activity. And, in particular, projects which meet one or more of the following aims of Sport England’s ‘Towards an Active Nation’ strategy:

• Getting inactive people to become more active.
• Developing lasting sporting habits.
• Developing more positive attitudes among young people.

January 2023 Update:

Sport England has updated its Small Grants guidance to enable funding for organisations affected by recent flooding.

Who Can Apply

Applications are accepted from:

• Community amateur sports clubs (as registered with HMRC).
• Unregistered voluntary and community organisations with a not-for-profit constitution.
• Registered charities.
• Not-for-profit companies (limited by guarantee without share capital or charitable incorporated organisation).
• Community interest companies (CICs) or other social enterprises.
• Community benefit societies.
• Schools using their facilities for wider community benefit.
• Local authority bodies (including town, parish and community councils).

Applicants do not have to be a sports organisation to apply as Sport England is more interested in the applicants’ knowledge of and track record in the community that will benefit from the project.

In order to be eligible for funding over £10,000 applicants must meet Tier One of the Code for Sports Governance. Organisations applying for projects involving sports that Sport England deems higher risk will be required to have appropriate affiliation to the national governing body.

January 2023 Flood Funding

The funding will be directed at areas most affected, so groups in areas covered by the following Active Partnerships are eligible:

• Energize
• Active Black Country
• Birmingham Sport
• Herefordshire & Worcester
• Active Gloucestershire
• Wesport
• Active Dorset