About Funding

Sport England is committed to the creation of a world-leading community sport system. This means focusing investment on organisations and projects that will grow and sustain participation in grassroots sport and create opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport.In addition to investment in key partners to deliver specific objectives, Sport England are launching funding programmes open to a wide range of organisations. These include sports clubs, voluntary or community organisations, local authorities, schools, colleges and universities.
You can find information here on the following funding streams:                                            

- Small Grants
- Sportsmatch
- Innovation Fund
- Rural Communities (this is the first of our themed funding rounds)
- Sustainable Facilities Fund

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Funding Sources

Other funding sources for financial support, guidance and advice are available from a wide range of sources. Use this link to find the organisations most suitable for your project.More information

Paper: Funding sport in the community

This document sets out Sport England's funding strategy from April 2009 until March 20111 informing potential applicants for funding of the purposes, scope and operation of Sport England's grant programmes. It reflects the priorities of our overall strategy2 and the changes to National Lottery funding within this. 3 Sport England has a maximum of £213 million per year to invest in community sport from April 2009. Of this total, a maximum of £158 million will be distributed to specific organisations with specific objectives related to community sport; a maximum of £55 million will be distributed through applications from all bona fide organisations which are judged on their merits against transparent criteria.

Sport England Funding Strategy 2009

PRO-ACTIVE East London Database

This page from the PRO-ACTIVE East London website details numerous sources of funding.

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GRANTnet Database:GRANTnet is a straightforward free to use service from GRANTfinder, which can help users identify suitable funding for their activity or project. More information

Useful Links

www.locsp.org/index2.htm

Open4Community

An online, searchable funding database for Tower Hamlets and the surrounding area.

Lottery Funding

www.nbleisuretrust.org.uk/page176.asp

www.maldon.gov.uk/Leisure/SportsAndRecreation/Funding+in+Sport.htm