SportsMatch
Designed to encourage new or additional sponsorship investment from businesses, trusts and private individuals, SportsMatch, funded by Sport England, offers pound for pound matched funding to sporting stakeholders for projects that encourage sports participation at grass roots level. The scheme’s awards criteria have been amended to provide greater flexibility for applicants. From May 2008, partnership funding from trusts and private individuals becomes eligible for match funding in addition to monies from companies. The minimum award is £1,000 and the maximum is £50,000. If you are a school the minimum award is £500 (the maximum is still £50,000) and your project may be a revenue scheme or, in limited cases, a capital project. Sponsorship may be in cash or in-kind. All projects applying in 2008/09 will need to ensure that their project is able to spend and deliver their entire grant funding by 31 March 2009. Private investment may be used to sustain projects after this date; however the private investment funding will need to be in the applicants' bank account from the beginning of the project.
Please go to the Sportsmatch website: www.sportsmatch.co.uk in the first instance, where you can also apply on-line. Alternatively please contact Sport England on Tel.
Bucks Sport would be happy to work with potential sponsors to find appropriate projects to support, or with sports organisations to help develop an effective project and application for funding. Visit www.buckssport.org/sponsor or contact info[at]buckssport.org
National Sports Foundation Funding Opportunities
The National Sports Foundation can match, pound for pound, commercial business sponsorship or funding from trusts / private donors for a sporting project that aims to increase participation and/or improve performance at grassroots level, funding projects over £50,000 . Projects may be a revenue scheme, a capital project or a mixture of both. Sponsorship may be in cash or in-kind.
The NSF has three priority funding themes:
• Fit for Sport – projects to improve both physical and human infrastructure for community clubs. This will include investing in clubs, coaches and volunteers in local communities
• 2012 Kids – building on the success of the Olympics, projects to encourage children and young people to take up sport; and
• Women into Sport – projects to increase female participation in sport, including providing coaching and support for female teams
In addition to this the National Sports Foundation will only consider match funding projects which deliver one or more of the following outcomes:
• Increased participation in sporting activity,
• Increased club membership
• Increased numbers of qualified and active coaches delivering instruction in sport
• Increased numbers of active volunteers supporting community sport
Applications should aim to demonstrate how they impact on Sport England’s ‘Grow, Sustain and Excel’ outcomes as outlined in Sport England’s 2008-2011 Strategy. The strategy can be down loaded from Sport England’s website: www.sportengland.org
Please use the National Sports Foundation website www.nationalsportsfoundation.org in the first instance. Alternatively please contact Sport England on Tel.
Again, Bucks Sport would be happy to work with potential sponsors to find appropriate projects to support, or with sports organisations to help develop a high quality project. Visit www.buckssport.org/sponsor or contact info[at]buckssport.org
