Deadline: 3-Sep-23
In partnership with the New Balance Foundation, Beyond Sport is accepting submissions from organisations working in France, Germany or the Netherlands who are using sport to support positive youth development, remove barriers to health and helping children and young people with refugee experiences to rebuild their lives.
The Sport Together Fund will provide cash grants to sports clubs, non-profit and charitable organisations, and collectives in humanitarian crises and protracted crises settings, as well as to transit and host communities where people are rebuilding their lives. Following a set of values-based principles and an intentional grant-making approach, the Fund ensures that funding goes directly to initiatives that use sport to tangibly improve the lives of people experiencing displacement and resettlement.
The Sport Together Fund is guided by an Expert Advisory Group comprising activists, practitioners, athletes and researchers many of whom have their own lived experiences as refugees in addition to years of professional experience in the areas of refugee and migration support, social inclusion through sport, conflict resolution, trauma relief, and sport for development.
Fund Priorities
- Intentional design (purposeful design of sport to be inclusive, supported by research-based best practices).
- Grassroots (uplifts local sports initiatives, volunteer groups, associations, NGOs where refugees are most likely to access sport and physical activity)
- Intersectional (prioritization of systemically marginalized groups, including unaccompanied minors, people with disabilities, people from the LGBTQ+ community, girls and women and older adults)
- Refugee leadership (training and professional development, bestow responsibility and opportunity to refugees)
- Diversity (interaction between refugees and host communities and celebration of social interactions between individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds)
- Do no harm (identification and mitigation of risks and the unintended consequences that might cause harm, while ensuring safety of all participants)
- Sustainability and community building (meaningful initiatives that help people build their lives in their new location beyond participating in the sport-based activity)
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible entities: registered sports clubs, associations, collectives, non-governmental organisations, charitable organisations, community groups.
- Applicants must be currently delivering programming in one of the following three countries: France, Germany and The Netherlands.
- Applicants cannot apply for a funding amount that is more than 50% of their organisation’s total annual income.
- Applicant to have been registered and operational for at least 6 months.
- Applicants must submit an organisational registration document (certificate, charter or constitution) and child protection/safeguarding policy.
- Adherence to Fund Priorities.
Fund Rules
- Applicants are encouraged to submit no more than 2 applications to The Sport Together Fund per year.
- If successful, organisations must present required follow-up documentation within two weeks of receiving the notification.
For more information, visit Beyond Sport.