Support for Organisations

Whether you are trying to develop your club, sustain your organisation/business, grow your business or if you are just thinking about starting up, there are a range of organisations and resources to help you on your journey. Use the quick links to get to the section most relevant to your organisation:

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Promote your Club/Organisation/Venue

Find out how we can help you promote your organisation and activity sessions through our website.
Club Matters

Club Matters is designed to support organisations who are looking to develop, grow, reach out to new communities and maximise their engagement with new and existing members, participants and volunteers.
Funding Finder

Use our Funding Finder to find local, regional and national sources of funding available for clubs/groups, facilities, talented individuals and coaching.
Volunteering

Volunteering in physical activity and sport has so many great benefits. Here you'll find useful links to local offers as well as resources and tools to promote opportunities.
Easyfundraising

It's a free to use fundraising website and app where your club can get donations every time players, members, coaches and anyone related to your club shops online with leading retailers.
Reducing Plastic in Sport

Preventing Plastic Pollution has put together this set of free resources, including short films, guidance documents, factsheets, lesson plans, webinars and more.
Insight Hub

Find data, stats and research to help you to better understand the audiences you are working with.
Your local Physical Activity, Health & Wellbeing Team

Contact your local Sport and Physical Activity Team for further support and opportunities for your organisation.
CIMSPA Digital Marketing Hub

A free hub of on-demand training, webinars, mentorship and benefits to provide support for those in Sports and Physical Activity in England.
CASE

CASE is committed to changing the way we do business by creating co-operative ways of working and encouraging employee and community ownership
UK Coaching

Whatever your role - coach, facilitator, instructor, leader, teacher or trainer - if you're helping people to be active and improve, UK Coaching are here for you.

Learning to tackle the increased cost of living

There are many challenges arising from the current economic circumstances and the needs for operators to maintain financial and environmental sustainability.

Sport England have created guidance that aim to give practical support on how efficiency measures can reduce running costs for organisations involved with small facilities.

Here we will also list other resources to help support organisations. Please also see what guidance your National Governing Body (NGB) of Sport is providing.

Reducing Energy Costs

Guidance from Sport England on how to reduce energy costs for local physical activity and sports facilities.
Asda Foundation Cost of Living Grant

The new Cost of Living grant is designed to support the increased running costs groups will face between September 2022 and February 2023, including rent increases and electricity cost rises. Applications must be submitted to your local Community Champion from 19th September and the application window will remain open until the budget cap has been reached.
Sport England Cost of Living Support

Sport England have collated guidance and research on how the cost of living impacts people's activity levels, how to get people active at a low cost and how facilities and organisations can adapt to keep energy costs down.
Cost of Living Resources for Businesses

The cost of living and doing business is a real challenge right now. Government departments have developed a number of resources to help your business continue to trade and build resilience for the future.
Free cost-of-living support and advice for community businesses

Expert advice and resources to save energy and build a better future from the Power to Change.
Voluntary Action Leicestershire - Cost of Living Information

For many charities, demand for your support has risen but resources are increasingly limited. VAL's help and guidance can help you work efficiently and effectively.
Essential 'No cost - low cost solutions to help your club reduce its energy costs

England Rugby have pulled together a useful 'No cost - low cost solutions' to help your club reduce its energy costs. These are universal solutions that can be applied to any club/organisation.
Keep The Doors Open

Sported's campaign on how the cost of living crisis is critically impacting our groups and young people.
Easyfundraising

Get started with easyfundraising today and offer your club community an easy and accessible way to support you while we weather the storm.
Let's Get Moving for Less!

A one-stop shop for free/low-cost opportunities to be active within Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
Government plans to help cut energy bills for businesses

New government scheme, published on the 21st September, will see energy prices for non-domestic energy customers such as businesses, charities and public sector organisations cut – protecting them from rising energy costs.
Emergency Financial Planning

The current financial climate is a difficult to fully predict and navigate. With that in mind, Club Matters have recently updated their 'Emergency financial planning' guide.
National Lottery Awards for All

A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £10,000. You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges.
Sported Community Pulse Survey

Understanding our members’ world - Cost-of-Living Edition
Free cost-of-living support webinars

CSE are hosting a series of online monthly webinars, available to anyone working in the wider community sector.

For Business, Sole Traders, Limited Companies

Business of Sport

Whether your business supports the visitors to, or the residents of, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland a wealth of support is available to you.
Webinars & Workshops

There are a number of workshops and webinars LLR-based businesses can attend free of charge, including anything from cash flow forecasting to social media management.

LLR Local Authority Support

Make sure you are connected to the Business Support available through your local authority. Details of funding and such support can be found by clicking the relevant local authority website link.

Make the most of the business, coaching or club development support and advice available

Connect with your Local Enterprise Partnership who have FREE business advice and support available through business advisers, business information and key links to funding, workshops and information to support you.

If you are based in:

Leicester or Leicestershire click on the Business Gateway LLEP Growth Hub
Rutland click on Greater Lincolnshire

The CIMSPA Digital Marketing Hub has a range of resources and tools to up your digital presence
The Leicester Employment Hub can support with information around Apprenticeships
The Federation of Small Businesses can supporting small businesses
The East Midlands Chamber have business information, workshops and advice available

East Midlands Chamber
Leicester Employment Hub
CIMSPA Academy
Retrain to Retain - CIMSPA

ReTrain to Retain will support 50,000 sport and physical activity professionals and volunteers who’ve had to find work outside the sector or had their hours reduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Help to Grow: Management programme

Are you a member of the senior management team at a small or medium-sized business based in the East Midlands or East of England? Do you want to take your leadership skills and your business to the next level? Join other business leaders at the University of Leicester School of Business on the new, Government-subsidised, Management programme
Federation of Small Businesses

The FSB mission is to help smaller businesses achieve their ambitions
Offering members a wide range of vital business services including advice, financial expertise, support and a powerful voice heard in government