Sport England Small Grants Programme

Sport England wants to support projects that bring communities together and provide sport and physical activities for people who may be less physically active. They also particularly want to support projects focusing on environmental sustainability.

Key information

• Awards of £300-£15,000 are available to not-for-profit organisations.
• Multiple applications can be submitted, but organisations can only have awards of up to £15,000 in any 12-month period.
• Awards are to help inactive and less active people become more active.
• Our priority is to support projects working with people living in areas of disadvantage as defined by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation areas 1 to 3.
• Applications should explain why there's a need for the project and how end users have been involved in developing the project.
• Applications should consider how the project adds value to services currently available in your local community, and work collaboratively with other groups to maximise the impact of the project.
• Application deadline: the Small Grants Programme is an open fund and you can apply at any time. We will provide you with 12 weeks' notice ahead of any planned closing date for applications.

Please be aware that we always have more applications than we're able to fund, so our priority is to support projects working with people in disadvantaged communities.

Support available for flood-damaged facilities

Sport England has updated the criteria and will again be accepting applications from organisations who have been impacted by the recent storms and flooding. The available funding will be focused on those areas most badly affected, and we'll prioritise sports and activities that need to return quickly.

Applicants will need to submit evidence of damage which is directly attributable to the recent flooding. Spring and summer sports, or where activity is not scheduled to take place for several weeks, will be a lower priority.

Support available for flood-damaged facilities | Sport England

Support for environmental sustainability projects

We're inviting applications from projects that focus on supporting inactive and less active people to become more active, while reducing our impact on the environment - projects that can deliver both environmental and physical activity benefits for your community. We're asking communities to put forward ideas addressing any of three key environmental areas for our sector, which have been designed with and for local communities:

• Reducing energy use: Actions and measures supporting your local efforts towards net zero
• Encouraging responsible travel: This could include encouraging people to walk or cycle where possible and providing safe cycle/scooter/buggy storage options; promoting accessible and safe public transport routes and lift sharing; and using local community assets to minimise travel.
• Reducing waste and improving resource efficiency: Measures and actions that seek to reduce and eliminate waste.

For more information on the fund, please visit - https://www.sportengland.org/funds-and-campaigns/our-funds/small-grants-programme