Funding Sports Development offers advice and support to organisations considering/pursuing external financial assistance from the range of funding currently available.
Awards For AllAwards for all is a grants programme set up to help community groups.
If you are a local group and you need between £300 and £10,000 Awards for All may be able to help you.
Awards for All can fund projects which involve people in their local community, bringing them together to take part in a range of arts, sport, heritage, charitable and other community activities.
Sometimes quite small sums of money can have a big impact. Awards for All aims to make a real difference to smaller groups and strengthen community activity.
- You can apply at any time
- The application form asks for basic information
- You receive the result in 8 weeks
Contact the application line number (0845) 6002040 or at www.spawardsforall.org
Community Investment Fund
Sport England North East's community investment programme is now available.
Priority will be given to projects that most closely support the objectives laid out in the North East Plan for Sport and Physical Activity. Any application will need to ensure that it contributes towards these objectives. Priority will also be given to projects that can demonstrate they are:
- Multi activity rather than single sport.
- Target Sport England's priority groups.
- Target residents from the worst 10% of wards in the country.
- Are sustainable after the Lottery funding has finished.
- That work with a range of partners (for example, clubs, local authorities, sport governing bodies, health, education).
Finally, the Government has stated that, for every £1 of lottery funding a further £2 must be acheived from other funding sources. Priority therefore will be given to schemes that deliver a high level of partnership funding. Awards will not normally be more than 33% of the total project cost, however the regional sports board can exceed this in exceptional circumstances at their discretion.
For further information log onto the Sport England website: www.sportengland.org or call their funding information line on 08458 508 508
Useful contacts:
General issues about the scheme
Graham Bond
Department for Culture Media and Sport
2-4 Cockspur Street
London
SW1Y 5 DH
Tel: 020 7211 6402
Fax: 020 7211 6508
Educational issues
John Wotherspoon
Department for Education and Employment
Caxton House
6-12 Tothill Street
London SW1H 9NA
Tel: 020 7273 5134
Fax: 020 7273 5004
Sports issues
Sport England
16 Upper Woburn Place
London WC1H 0QP
Tel: 020 7273 1500
Fax: 020 7383 5740
Other useful contacts:
Youth Sports Trust
Rutland Building
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
Tel: 01509 228293
Fax: 01509 210851
New Opportunities Fund
Heron House
322 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7PW
Tel: 0845 0000 121
