Sport England Return to Play: Community Asset Fund

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Sport England Return to Play: Community Asset Fund

Capital awards of between £10,001 and £50,000 will help clubs and community groups adapt and open important places and spaces, so that sport and physical activity can happen during the pandemic.

About Sport England Return to Play: Community Asset Fund

Please note, this fund will be paused to new applications from 5pm on Friday 30 April.

The Return to Play: Community Asset Fund is for new applications focused solely on helping support clubs and community groups through the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic to return to play.

It's designed to provide capital funding to help local sports clubs and organisations to adapt and open important places and spaces so people within their community can return to play and physical activity, safely. The focus is on responding to the immediate challenges of sports and physical activity returning to play this autumn.

There are some important changes to how this funding will operate, compared to how our pre-coronavirus Community Asset Fund operated. These are:

  • Your project must be about addressing the challenges you're now facing because of coronavirus and linked to a return to play. At this time, we'll not be funding general capital works.
  • The minimum level of funding available is £10,001 - for anything less than this, please see our Return to Play: Small Grants fund.
  • The maximum level of funding available is £50,000 - this is to ensure we can fund more clubs and groups.

Highest priority

  • Projects located in areas of high deprivation, including rural areas (decile 1-3 of the Indices of Deprivation). To see which decile your project location fits into, you can use this postcode checker.

Other funding priorities

  • Organisations working with Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, people on lower incomes, disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and people experiencing a greater burden of care because of coronavirus.
  • Organisations that don't have a significant level of reserve funding available to utilise.

Flood Damaged Facilities

Please note, this fund will be paused to new applications from 5pm on Friday 30 April. Any applications which have been started, can't be submitted after this time.

Emergency flood relief funding is being made available to community sports clubs and not-for-profit organisations to help them restore flood-damaged facilities.

Organisations from the areas worst affected by recent flooding caused by Storm Christoph are now eligible to apply to our Return to Play Fund, which has been bolstered by the addition of a targeted flood relief option. Further information on most affected areas and criteria can be seen here; www.sportengland.org/news/financial-support-flood-damaged-facilities

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