Changes to Sport England Funding - New Funding Streams Under Development

Sport England is changing the way it distributes around ?45 million a year of National Lottery funding after a public consultation showed widespread support for its proposals.The responses to the consultation will help Sport England to develop the detail of the four new funding streams outlined in the consultation as follows: Regular themed funding rounds that meet specific needs of community sport. A programme of sustainable investment in facilities. A small grants scheme. An innovation fund to identify and pilot best practice in community sport. These programmes will ensure funding is awarded in a fair and flexible way to projects that will grow and sustain participation in sport. Sport England will be publishing full details of the application processes and award eligibility criteria for these new programmes at the start of 2009. The new programmes will be in place by 1 April 2009.