The Sport England Small Grants programme provides funding to remove barriers to participation in physical activity and improve community sport provision. Grants of £300 to £15,000 are a
vailable to projects across England.
The aim of the fund is to bring communities together and provide sport and physical activities for people who may be less physically active.
Reflecting two of the King’s personal passions, there are two additional funding priorities during the year of the Coronation 2023:
- Projects which focus on sustainability while reducing the impact on the environment, such as purchasing locally made equipment to extend capacity in a club or using local community assets to minimise travel.
- Projects which focus on developing skills in young people. This could include supporting them through coaching qualifications or relevant sports administration courses, or trying new sessions to bring new participants into the club.
For projects addressing environmental sustainability in sport and physical activity, funded work should align with at least one of the following areas of focus:
- Reducing energy use – Actions and measures which support local efforts towards achieving net zero including installing energy efficient equipment and improving insulation.
- Encouraging responsible travel – Promoting accessible and safe public transport options or encouraging active travel modes such as walking and cycling.
- Reducing waste and resource efficiency – Measures and actions that seek to reduce and eliminate waste including promotion of repairing, reusing and recycling.
Applications are accepted from voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations, schools and local authority bodies.
Deadline: 30 June 2023