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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
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Government Response
Accepted
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.
Source
Committee
Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Inquiry
Sport in our communities
Report
Fourth Report - Sport in our communities
29 Jul 2021
HC 45
Addressee Bodies
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Timeline
Recommendation age
4.8 yrs
Report published
29 Jul 2021