Deadline: 5-Dec-22
The NSW Government is accepting applications for its Centre of Excellence Fund to improve talent pathways and community engagement for all sporting codes.
Objectives
- The primary objectives of the Fund are to:
- Provide elite performance sport infrastructure
- Support talent identification and development pathways (i.e. athletes moving from pre-elite to elite)
- Support the enhancement of dedicated female programs and facilities to improve pathways for women and girls, in line with the NSW Government’s women in sport strategy Her Sport Her Way
- Improve the level of community engagement e.g. an increase in the number of community health and wellbeing education workshops held at a Centre of Excellence
- Secondary objectives of the Fund are to:
- Create multi-purpose and multi-use facility components
- Create inclusive facilities that meet the needs of females, people with disability, First Nations peoples and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Establish a diversified funding model
- Improve operational sustainability
- Promote and incorporate environmental sustainability and climate resiliency into design, construction and operation
- Promote innovation in sports science, sports medicine and technology
- Promote partnerships that maximise outcomes.
Funding Information
- The NSW Government has allocated $150 million to the Centre of Excellence Fund.
- Up to $90 million will be available in 2022-2023 (Round 2).
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are:
- NSW Office of Sport recognised State Sporting Organisations (including National Sporting Organisations where the state body is part of a unitary governance model)
- National Sporting Organisations
- NSW Institute of Sport, Australian Sports Commission (incorporating the Australian Institute of Sport) and NSW Regional Academies of Sport
- Australian Universities with NSW campuses
- NSW Department of Education operated specialist sports high schools
- NSW based professional sporting organisations competing in a national or state competition
- NSW based sporting clubs and associations, with the approval of their state or national body
- NSW Local Government Authorities, the Unincorporated Far West Region and the Lord Howe Island Board
- Private enterprises (for-profit organisations).
Ineligible Criteria
- Ineligible applicants are any organisation types not listed in the ‘Eligible Applicants’ section, and include (but are not limited to):
- Individuals
- Schools (other than NSW Department of Education operated specialist sports high schools) and TAFEs
- Parent and Citizens (P&C’s) Associations
- Other community based or religious groups that do not have a primary purpose of sport and/or recreation
- Progress associations.
For more information, visit https://www.sport.nsw.gov.au/grants/centre-of-excellence-fund
