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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Key Links

Promote your Club/Organisation/Venue

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

There are many opportunities for sport & physical activity clubs/organisations to also contribute to overall health improvements of it's members - sharing key physical health and mental health messages.
Buddle

Your place to experience the wonders of community sport and physical activity.
Funding Finder

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

We have produced localised leaflets of the Chief Medical Officer's Infographics explaining the physical activity needed for general health benefits at different life stages.
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.
Net Zero Toolkit

This toolkit aims to provide a starting point for town, parish councils and community groups to address net zero in their local community.
Top tips to become an environmentally sustainable sports club

We all know that climate change is affecting the way we live and we are feeling its impact in sport too. Flooded pitches, extreme heat and poor air quality are sadly becoming more common which is why it’s important we do what we can for the environment.
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.

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

Considering starting a business or social enterprise?

Check out the support available to you via these links.

University Links - Support for organisations and employers

For more information please contact:

Ali Clements

Strategic Lead

Active Together

I am working flexibly in the office or at home, therefore please contact me via email or phone number provided.

My areas of responsibility are:

- Business of Sport Network
- Sport & Economy Growth Plan
- Premier Sporting Location
- Place based support for Leicester City
- Supporting ethnically diverse communities