Sport England is on a mission to increase the number of people being active by making more sporting facilities available. At the heart of local communities, schools can play a pivotal role in achieving this
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port England runs a number of different programmes, each with different aims but all essentially focused on
the same important goal – to get more people more active. At a strategic level, Sport England
works with partners such as the Department for Education, the Association for Physical Education and County Sports Partnerships to deliver the Primary PE and Sport Premium Fund (set to increase from September 2017). It has run one-off, time-limited programmes for schools, such as Primary Spaces, a programme that enabled primary schools with limited space to develop multi-use games areas.
It also encourages competition
within secondary schools through the School Games initiative, and its capital programmes support the development of facilities that are also open for community use.
Funding programmes Out of all the available initiatives, the two main programmes for which schools would be likely applicants are the Small Grants programme and the Community Asset Fund. The Small Grants programme,
aimed at students aged 14 and over, makes revenue awards of up to £10,000 to provide coaching and equipment for schools. It doesn’t fund curriculum-time activity as
this is a statutory obligation, but it can fund after-school activities. The Community Asset Fund,
meanwhile, invests in facilities that enhance the sporting offer for whole communities. Although these facilities can be school-based, pupils – the wider community should also have access to the facilities through a community-use agreement.
Types of project Sport England is always looking for projects that provide more and better opportunities for people to be active. Its Towards An Active Nation strategy sets out the key outcome as getting more people, from every
SMALL GRANTS PROGRAMME
Small Grants uses Lottery funding to make awards of between £300 and £10,000 to help more young people (aged 14+) and adults adopt and keep a sporting habit for life. Schools that are considering an application should read the guidance documents and fill in the pre-application checklist. Completed applications should be submitted at least three months before your project is due to start. You will need to: Describe how many people will access your project and how they will benefit. Monitor the numbers of participants to measure the success of the project. Provide a clear, detailed budget.
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Provide evidence that there is a local need for your project. Monitor expenditure to show that any grant awarded is spent correctly. Having analysed the success rates
of more than 500 recent applications, Sport England found that 23 per cent of applications were unsuccessful because either the organisation or the activity were ineligible, while 11 per cent were eligible, but lacked sufficient clarity or detail in one or more areas. So it’s worth spending some time making sure your project meets the criteria and addresses Sport England’s aims, in order to improve your chances of success.
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