Inspired Facilities - apply now for community sports funding
Published on: 4th August 2011
Up to a thousand local sports clubs and facilities will be upgraded thanks to the Inspired Facilities fund, part of the Places People Play mass participation legacy programme.
Designed to be as simple and accessible as possible, the fund is ideal for community groups and sports clubs who may not have received public funding before.
To help to make applying easier, a catalogue of typical facilities developments and improvements has been created, based on what sports clubs have told us they need. And for those whose applications are successful, they can take advantage of a group of pre-appointed contractors without the need for a lengthy procurement process.
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Inspired Facilities is focused on making it easier for local community and volunteer groups to improve and refurbish sports clubs or transform non-sporting venues into modern grassroots sport facilities.
Part of Places People Play, Sport England’s programme to deliver a London 2012 legacy of increased mass participation in sport, Inspired Facilities is investing £50 million of National Lottery funding in up to 1000 community sports projects between 2011 and 2014.
What the programme will fund?
Upgrades and improvements
Works to non sports buildings into sporting use
Indoor lighting and flooring
Outdoor floodlights
Sports equipment (non personal)
Items that help reduce running costs – rain harvesting, solar panels, windmills
Social areas and car parks – just make the case!
What we can’t fund – key points
Revenue items i.e. staffing, coaching, travel etc
Small routine maintenance & repairs i.e. painting, broken windows
Personal sports equipment …. But our partner Thomas Cook Children’s Charity can – if your project involves young people
Retrospective funding (reimbursement of costs incurred)
Inspired Facilities - Criteria
NEED – Tell Sport England clearly what the need is for your project
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT – Projects will display the inspire logo – we want to know how you have involved your community
IMPACT – Tell us how your project will keep users coming or bring in new people
SUSTAINABILITY – Tell use how your project will continue to deliver sport
Sport England will give priority to…
Organisations that have not received a Sport England lottery grant of over £10,000
Projects that are only public sports facility in the local community
Projects that offer local opportunities to people who do not currently play sport
http://inspiredfacilities.sportengland.org/
