Deadline: 31-Mar-24
The Sport England has launched the Small Grants Programme to develop opportunities for communities to get more people physically active and they’ll support new projects through providing National Lottery funding.
The Sport England is here to support communities with the things that are most important to them when it comes to being physically active.
Funding Information
- The Small Grants Programme is a quick way to apply for funding between £300 and £15,000.
- Project length: from two months to two years
Projects they can fund
- You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity, that will support inactive and less active people become more active by doing at least one of these things:
- Recover and reinvent: recovering from the biggest crisis in a generation, to provide sport and physical activity opportunities that meet the needs of different people.
- Connecting communities: focus on sport and physical activity’s ability to make places better to live and bring people together to be physically active.
- Positive experiences for children and young people: a focus on positive experiences as the foundations for a long and healthy life.
- Connecting with health and wellbeing: strengthening the connections between sport, physical activity, health, and wellbeing, so more people feel the benefits and advocate for an active life.
- Active environments: creating and protecting the places and spaces that make it easier for people to be active.
- They’ll prioritise projects that supports the focus of investing most in those that need it most. They’ll do this by supporting more projects that can demonstrate the following priorities:
- The project will be supporting people who live in areas of disadvantage as defined by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation areas 1-3.
- The project is focused on tackling inequalities.
- They can consider requests for activities outside of this list, where the following applies:
- The identified activity is specifically focused on the needs of the target audience
- The activities being delivered are part of the Broad Activity Categories identified through Active Lives:
- active travel
- walking/cycling activities
- dance activities
- fitness activities
- sporting activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations must have a minimum of three unrelated/non-cohabiting trustees or directors.
- You must be able to show that decision making/voting rights are equitably distributed.
- Incorporated bodies must show this on their Persons of Significant Control register.
- If you’re applying for more than £10,000 then your organisation will be required to meet Tier one of their Code for Sports Governance.
- You can apply if your organisation is:
- a not for profit constituted voluntary or community organisation.
- a community amateur sports clubs (as registered with HMRC)
- a registered charity
- a not-for-profit company (limited by guarantee without share capital or charitable incorporated organisation)
- a community interest company (CIC) or other social enterprise
- a community benefit society
- a school (if your project benefits and involves the communities around the school)
- local authority bodies (including town, parish, and community councils).
Ineligible
- They can’t accept applications from:
- an individual, sole trader or organisation with less than three people or where decision making is not equitably shared (e.g. an incorporated body with Persons of Significant Control)
- a national governing body for sport or Active Partnership
- a commercial / for profit entity
- an organisation based outside the UK
- an organisation applying on behalf of another.
- Please note, you can only be in receipt of up to £15,000 in a 12-month period.
For more information, visit Sport England.