Leeds Sports Grants for Voluntary Bodies and Similar Organisations and Individuals
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Welcome... ...to the 5th edition of the Involve newsletter. This edition will take us past Christmas and into a very exciting Olympic and Paralympic Year 2012. This year has seen many successful events including the Leeds Half Marathon, West Yorkshire Youth Games and Leeds Volunteer Fair. Volunteers have continued to play a vital role in the delivery of sport in Leeds and in order that this can continue into 2012 and beyond I have produced a Sports Volunteering Strategy . Copies of the document are available by contacting [email protected] This editions theme is around funding and there are a number of new pots of funding currently available. If you require help in applying for any of the funding please contact me and I will be happy to put you in touch with a sport development officer who will assist you. A very successful funding workshop took place at Moortown RFC and was attended by 60 people from approx 40 clubs representing a variety of sports. It is intended to deliver more of these workshops and when dates and venues have been decided I will send out the information. If anyone is interested in hosting one of these or any other workshops then please contact me with details of the facilities you have available and I will be happy to pass them to the team. If you require further information around sports volunteering then please contact me on 0113 3950614 or e mail me at [email protected] I wish you a very merry christmas and a healthy and prosperous new year! In Issue 5: June 2011 Jets Ready For Take Off Pg 2 One Year To Go… Pg 5 Inspired Facilities Pg 3 How You Can Be A Sport Maker Pg 6 Burden Eased On Claiming Gift Aid Pg 4 The Hub Martial Art Project Pg 7 Small Grants Programe Pg 4 Course Calendar Pg 8 Contact the Editor: Julie Lewis (Volunteer Sports Development Officer) Sport Development, John Charles Centre for Sport, Middleton Grove, Leeds LS11 5DJ Phone: 0113 3950614 Email: [email protected] 3 England U21 Girls: Lauren Potter, Rachel Shaw and Natalie Haythornthwaite Leeds Sports Grants For Voluntary Bodies and similar organisations and individuals. The Leeds Sports Grants are intended to encourage and enable people of Leeds to take part in sport, particularly within the voluntary sports clubs. The system is administered by the Leeds Sports Federation on behalf of Leeds City Council, through its Grants Panel. Grant Awards will be made for sports equipment or kit only. Grant Awards to be made on the basis of £100 minimum and £500 maximum. Applicants must reside or be predominantly based within the Leeds City Council administrative boundary. It is a condition for grant aid that the applicant (in the case of a club) or the club of the applicant (in the case of an individual) be a Member of the Leeds Sports Federation and remain so for a period of no less than 3 years after the date of the award. Applications are now invited for these grants which are administered by Leeds City Jets Ready For Council and further information and forms can be obtained from: the Secretary at: Take Off! [email protected] Meetings of the Grants Panel are held in Yorkshire Jets are eager to have schools, clubs, media and netball fans March, June, September and December. from Yorkshire attend the launch on 15 December 2011 to meet the new Applications should be received 3 weeks team, see the new kit and buy merchandise for the season ahead as well before the above. as hear about the Jets’ Vision for the future. The completed application form together The launch will be an opportunity for fans to see the Jets’ new kit, squad with the required accounts or financial and management team for the first time as well as hear about the new information should be sent to: Secretary, commercial and community partnerships. Leeds Sports Federation, 73 Gateland Lane, Leeds LS17 8LN. The launch evening starts from 6pm and fans will be able to network with the Yorkshire Jets Head Coach, Anna Carter. A special open training session is available from 8pm – 10pm. There will also be a chance to visit stands for each of the external partners and purchase tickets and merchandise The evening is taking place at Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, Church Wood Avenue, Headingley, LS6 3QS For more information or to book an interview please contact Sian Foley Email: [email protected] or call: 07852289054 Involve • Issue 5 Page 2 Inspired Facilities Inspired facilities programme is part of the mass participation legacy plan for the 2012 Olympics. What will the programme do? What will the programme fund? Step 4: Fill in your application online. The programme will invest in • Upgrades and improvements http://inspiredfacilities.sportengland.org refurbishment or improvement of existing • Works to bring non sport sports • Go to my applications and complete. facilities and opening up facilities for buildings into sporting use • Supporting documents needed: community sport. • Indoor lighting and flooring • Governing document (constitution etc) • Outdoor floodlights • Copy of audited accounts Who is eligible to apply? • Sports equipment (non personal) • Last 3 bank statements Applications can be submitted by • Items that reduce running costs – rain • Evidence of security of tenure organisations entitled to receive public harvesting, solar panels, windmills. • Child Protection Policy funding. Voluntary or community • Social areas and car parks. • Sport Development Plan (template organisations, sports clubs, playing provided) field associations, local authorities or What won’t the programme • Income expenditure forecast education establishments. (includes town fund & parish councils) • Revenue items.. staffing , coaching , Guidance and Help available travel On the online application form Budget and timing • Small routine maintenance, repairs Funding Helpline 08458 508508 • 5 rounds of 10 million, 1 round in • Personal sports equipment Email at [email protected] 2012, 2 rounds in 2012-13, 2 rounds • Retrospective funding (reimbursement Open: Mon 8am – 9pm, in 2013-14 of costs occurred) Tue – Thu 8am – 6pm, Fri 8am – 5pm • 70% of the funding (7 million) per round for voluntary / community How to put together an After you Apply projects application • Site visit from sport England • 30% of the funding (3 million) per Step 1: Check your project is eligible. approved contractor round for L.A. • Project must be on land you own, • Report number of visits, 6 monthly for • L.A. projects need £-£ match funding intend to own, or lease. 5 years • Voluntary / community projects do • Be the only one submitted by you in not need match funding but would be that round Key Questions preferable • Involve eligible sports • The catalogue rates look high, I can • Grants available to voluntary and • Be capital works which have not get cheaper? community sector projects from started, but be capable of work • What about innovation and 20,000 – 50,000. within 6 months of receiving a grant renewable energy? • L.A. projects from 20,000 -150,000 and open to the public within 18 • What about complicated or unusual months projects? Whats the difference this time? • Focus at least partly on adults aged • Can we include equipment? Major consultation has taken place 16 and over to identify the type of developments Please note that Inspired Facilities is needed at grass roots level. Step 2: Find out what your club or supported by Thomas Cook Childrens 4 packages community needs. Charity. • Building Modernisation • Talk to members or users and the • Outdoor MUGA wider community (whats holding the • Thomas Cook Charity adding • Modular Changing Rooms club back?) £500,000 • Floodlights • What will keep or get them involved, • Particular emphasis on what is holding your club back disadvantaged children Select from a catalogue of • L.As must supply strategic evidence • Will give awards on top of Sport improvements • How can your project remain open England awards Showers for years to come • Happy to consider giving additional nz3 £15.50 per sq ft (all costs funding, maintenance and running exclude v.a.t.) Step 3: Work out your project costs. costs, personal equipment – Just make Helps select project type and cost to • Make a list of sports/activities you the case reach a budget (sport England costs inc want to offer and at what level of • No separate application – its all on costs i.e. Q.S) competition included in Sport England’s. • Check catalogue to find items you require • Enter the codes on the application form (and factor in v.a.t.) Involve • Issue 5 Page 3 Burden Eased On Claiming Gift Aid It is the Government’s intention to enable Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) and charities to claim Gift Aid-style repayments on small donations starting in April 2013. The amount of small donations on which the new repayment can be claimed will be capped at £5,000 per year, per CASC or charity. This means that qualifying CASCs and charities will be eligible for a repayment, charities will be eligible for a repayment of up to £1,250 per year without having to submit Gift Aid application forms. In order to qualify for this new repayment, charities and CASCs will need to have been recognised by HMRC for at least three years, have been operating Gift Aid successfully throughout that time and have a good tax compliance record. If you are a CASC or sports charity and would like to feed your comments on the proposals into a working group, please contact David Foster of the Sport & Active Recreation Alliance at [email protected] The Sport England Sported Announces Small Grants Small Grants Programme Did you know? You can apply for any sum from £300 to £10,000 but the total project cost cannot Programme exceed £50,000 sported has recently launched a grand new funding stream to provide The Sport England Small Grants Programme increased support in active areas of Yorkshire.