Category Archives: Sport England

Sport England’s approach to Small Grants has changed

Sport England has relaxing a few rules about what they can’t fund, and are trying to make it as simple as possible to apply to their Small Grants programme.

The focus of your application should be what difference your project will make, not what you purchase to make it happen.

They also want to know how many new participants will be involved.

One of the main differences made to this fund, is that it will no longer matter if your project takes more than 12 months to deliver and you can spread your funding over three years, if required. They are also happy to contribute funding to bigger projects.

You can request grants up to £10K for revenue related expenditure and new / additional movable equipment. Sport England may make slightly larger awards in exception circumstance only.

Sport England will also be doing more to support organisations which are able to support inactive people become active

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Get Ready for the New Data Protection Laws

Help your sports club get ready for the new General Data Protection Regulations with this handy toolkit produced by Sport England.

A free toolkit to help sports clubs and organisations become compliant with the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) has been made available to downloadOpen in a new window.

The documents, produced by the Sports and Recreation Alliance and funded through an £85,000 grant from us, explain the new laws regarding the collection and processing of personal information.

GDPR, which replaces the Data Protection Act 1998, comes into effect on 25 May and all sports organisations will need to be compliant – irrespective of their size.

The Sports and Recreation Alliance toolkit, which will be released in three stages before the deadline, is a series of templates specifically tailored for grassroots clubs to help them achieve compliance.

There is also a series of handy guidance notes and advice summaries to help clubs use them correctly and adapt them to their own situation.

The GDPR toolkit includes:

Data privacy notices
A consent form for direct marketing
A GDPR compliance questionnaire to help clubs create a checklist of things to consider.

To access the documents in the toolkit, click here

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Sport England ‘Community Asset Fund’

You may already be aware that Sport England ‘Inspired Facilities’ fund, which ended last year has been replaced by Sport England ‘Community Asset Fund’, which will be taking applications from the end of this month.

If you have a project that fits the eligibility criteria, we are here to help you. Project sizes vary from £5,000-£150,000 but will receive lots of interest, and clubs will need to recognise that only water tight applications will have a chance of being successful.

We support clubs with successful applications to various funding bodies.

Read more on the link below, and we look forward to hearing from you –

https://www.sportengland.org/cafguide/

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