Deadline: 11-Jul-2025
The Southwark Council is accepting applications for Olympic Legacy Fund to help deliver regular sport and physical activities.
Funding Information
- There are 4 sizes of grant; micro, small, medium and large.
- Micro: £0 to £500
- Small: Over £500 to £10,000
- Medium: Over £10,000 to £50,000
- Large: Over £50,000 to £150,000
Eligible Projects
- Club equipment costs to encourage active play
- Equipment to help increase participant numbers
- Adapted equipment to increase inclusion in an activity
- IT equipment to support online activity sessions
- Installation of adapted equipment or improved access for D/deaf and disabled people (ramps, hoists, signs, pool pod)
- Improving playgrounds/games court areas for organised community activity
- Changes to school buildings that create better community access (like new site entrances)
- Changes to open spaces for physical activity (like installing a large screen to show workouts)
- Painting communal spaces
- Large scale facility development that will bring residents together
- Building enhancements that benefit whole communities
- Building development that will benefit whole communities
- Innovative improvements to spaces for physical activity
Eligible Costs
- Examples of capital spending include:
- building a new community space, like a sports pavilion or hall that can increase physical activity and target residents that are less active
- re-surfacing a community sports space to provide a better or safer experience
- refurbishing ancillary facilities, like toilets and changing rooms, where improved accessibility allows growth of activity, especially for D/deaf and disabled users and other less active residents
- equipment like goals, backboard/rings, skate ramps and outdoor gyms to increase active play through specific sports or activities (not traditional play equipment like slides and swings)
- new or replacement safety surfacing under equipment like climbing walls
- substantial items of outdoor leisure equipment like floodlights, goal posts, gym equipment, artificial wickets, line markings or cricket nets
- lawn mowers and grounds maintenance equipment to enable greater use of sports and physical activity spaces for wider community benefit
- building adaptations like ramps to help disabled users to access physical activity
- PA and audio/visual systems like projectors, screens and sound systems to help grow participation at in-person or online activities
- new websites to promote your organisation or benefit the wider community
- substantial items of indoor leisure equipment like bowls, mats, gym equipment, tennis nets or snooker tables
- marquees or other outdoor equipment that can enable growth and extension of activities during poor weather and seasonal changes
- professional fees for creation of documents like feasibility studies, business plans or architect’s plans that will benefit an organisation’s development and improve their services
Ineligible Costs
- Examples of revenue spending include paying for:
- events and trips
- coaching delivery
- venue hire
- office and printing costs
- transport
- staff salaries
- coordinator or project management fees
- lesson fees
- pitch or equipment hire
- training for a group or individual, (for example safeguarding, first aid or coaching courses)
- social opportunities that help prevent isolation and loneliness like food or entertainment
Eligibility Criteria
- They can only pay grants to constituted groups with the correct governance and structure, for example:
- tenants and resident’s associations
- community interest groups
- sports clubs
- schools
- local charities
- limited companies by guarantee which demonstrate they are non for profit
- You must be a non-profit organization and re-invest any surplus revenue back into the club or organization.
- Your organization can only apply for 1 project in each round. You cannot apply again if already in receipt of a grant in the previous 12 months.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They will not fund:
- more than 1 project from an applicant in the same financial year
- activities that do not benefit people living in the area
- commercial activities (where there is no public benefit)
- religious activities
- statutory duties, medical or academic research
- traditional play equipment like slides and swings
- a school whose projects are solely targeted at their own students, (funded projects must benefit the wider community, aiming for at least 50% external participants)
- political parties or lobbying groups
- grant-making bodies to distribute grants through a different process
- projects that do not link to the Southwark 2030 Strategy and its intentions
- projects that do not relate to physical activity
- individuals (you must work with a community organisation to apply)
- organisations not established in the UK
- projects that have already received substantial funding from the council, (this excludes any awards of match-funding towards a larger project cost)
- revenue costs
For more information, visit Southwark Council.