Sport England announce support package for clubs and community organisations

Sport England have today announced that they are making up to £195 million of funding available to help the sport and physical activity sector through the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis.

The package is made up of the following: 

  • A £20 million Community Emergency Fund, which will be opened immediately for clubs and community organisations to bid into. Grants between £300 and £10,000 are available
  • A £5 million pot for existing partners to bid into if they're facing specific financial difficulty
  • An additional £55 million to support our sector during an ongoing period of restrictions, to fund new and innovative ways to keep people active and, when the period of restrictions is over, to help organisations get back to business and adjust to a different environment 
  • A £115 million rollover of current funding into 2021/22 to give long term certainty to over 100 well established partners who play a vital role in the delivery of sport and physical activity in England. 

For full details on this announcement and each of the available support packages please visit here; https://www.sportengland.org/news/195-million-package-help-sport-and-physical-activity-through-coronavirus. Please note that you will need to read through the details of each specific package to understand how it might work for your club/organisation.

ECB Support – In addition to the above announcement from Sport England, I have begun to receive several enquiries about what emergency support might be made available from ECB. Please be assured that we have been told that ECB are working on this but are aware of the need not to jump to solutions without understanding the full impact on the game. There is a significant amount of re-profiling of funds going on behind the scenes and any support packages need to be balanced against a wider support package for all levels of the game. As soon as we hear more, we will ensure that clubs are the first to know the details.