JUBILEE FUND

Sport England sets up a pot of community funding to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

SPORT England has set up a £5-million fund to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in order to support sport and physical activity that brings communities together and tackles inequalities. England Boxing clubs will be eligible to apply for grants from the fund.

Using money from the National Lottery, the fund will make awards of between £300 and £10,000 to community organisations in support of new projects providing opportunities to become more physically active.

“As part of the celebrations of an unprecedented anniversary, we’re excited to be able to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a fund designed to help people to come together and get moving,” said Sport England chief executive Tim Hollingsworth. “Our Uniting the Movement strategy is focused on tackling inequalities and as such this fund will prioritise supporting projects working with people in disadvantaged communities, where we’ve seen there are traditionally more barriers to being active... The fund also highlights the importance of the National Lottery in enabling not just us, but many other organisations too, to support the positive work of people in England.”

The fund is will make awards to not-for-profit organisations helping inactive people to get active, or less active people to become more active. Applications for projects working with people living in areas of disadvantage, as defined by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation areas 1-3, are particularly welcomed.

For more details and to apply, see: tinyurl.com/mbd2y7wy