Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 6
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Even in normal circumstances, volunteers in grassroots and community sport dedicate a significant amount of...
Recommendation
Even in normal circumstances, volunteers in grassroots and community sport dedicate a significant amount of time to applying for funding. Organisations such as Sported and StreetGames play an important role in supporting their members to complete applications but the extensive administrative burden associated with these applications seems unnecessary, and has only increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. To reduce the administrative burden on volunteers across the sport sector, we recommend that the Government work with governing and funding bodies to introduce a standardised application methodology for grassroots and community sport funds.
Paragraph Reference:
37
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
The Government agrees that there needs to be a simplified method for grassroots sports organisations to access funding. As described above, Sport England’s Uniting the Movement strategy commits them to distributing funding in new ways, including: simplifying access to available funding, including open funds. Whilst this may not necessarily result in complete standardisation, we hope that some improvements will assist community sports organisations to access funding.