Sport England Movement Fund - get help to apply from Active Humber

The Movement Fund provides crowdfunding pledges, grants and support to help projects that get more people active. 

£15,000 grants available to cover a wide range of costs and items if you're eligible and your project aligns with Sport England's goals:

1. Getting more people active
2. Reducing the number of inactive people 
3. Tackling inequalities  

The Movement Fund will provide the following support:

• Equipment – support to purchase new or improved equipment that’s required for the delivery of your activity
  
• Refurbishing/upgrading facilities – support can be provided to improve or create spaces that can provide opportunities to get more people active
  
• Developing new capabilities and leadership skills – support to provide formal training for staff and volunteers to improve their skills and leadership abilities to help improve how organisations tackle inequalities and get more people active
  
• Delivery costs – support to pay the people and facilities you need to deliver the project, which are new costs to your project
  
• Emergency relief – helping with costs during a crisis, like damage from extreme weather, that couldn’t have been avoided or insured.
  

Sport England will give priority to projects providing opportunities in communities where there is the greatest need - https://www.sportengland.org/funds-and-campaigns/our-funds/funding-guidance/place-need-classification-tool  - and for those groups who face the greatest barriers to be physically active such as, and particularly those that address challenges faced by people with a combination of the following characteristics:

• People living on low incomes
  
• Disabled people or those with long-term health conditions
  
• Older people
  
• People from culturally diverse communities
  
• Pregnant women and parents with very young children
  
• Girls aged 5-16
  
• LGBTQ+ people
  
• People who are in foster care
  
• People who provide care without pay.