Funding & Resources

National Sports Foundation

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.  08458 508 508  for all other queries.

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
 

Volunteering England
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Community Amateur Sports Clubs
These clubs, partly through mandatory rate relief and the ability to claim Gift Aid on voluntary donations, have benefitted from an estimated £39 million in savings since 2002.

How Sport England Funding Works
Sport England is committed to creating an active nation through sport. As part of our work to sustain and increase participation in sport and active recreation, we invest in a range of projects across the country.