£509,569.47
Awarded in total
Sports Funding
From 2019 - 2023, we’ve awarded 96 grants to sports projects.
70%
Projects led by people from the Global Majority
49%
Grants awarded to football projects
Leader breakdown by age and gender
Key challenges faced by leaders
Funding
92% of citizen grantees have no external funding sources and their established projects aren’t sustainable.
Pitch affordability
Football groups are unable to regularly secure affordable pitches for training and matches.
Increased cost of living
The higher cost of living is impacting leaders and beneficiaries, making projects more expensive to run and maintain.
Office space
Projects that are growing need access to free or discounted office spaces to take meetings and complete funding applications.
Partnerships
Leaders that are running intervention projects want to make connections that can support their efforts to tackle knife crime.
Check out our map to see all the action happening across the borough. It's not just football—there's boxing, fitness classes, badminton, taekwondo, yoga, cricket, dance, cheerleading, running, swimming, and more.