Third Sector Resilience Fund Summary of Grants to Sport Organisations up to 5 June 2020
Non-protected Coronavirus (COVID-19) Third Sector Resilience Fund Summary of grants to sport organisations up to 5 June 2020 Introduction This document provides a summary of grants made to organisations in the sporting system from the Third Sector Resilience Fund (the Fund) up to 5 June 2020. The information is in the public domain so can be used for internal intelligence and aspects shared with partners as appropriate (e.g. informing SGBs of member clubs that have been awarded grants from the fund). Details of the Fund are available here. A full list of sport organisations receiving grants is included at the end of the document. Details of all awards made through the Fund up to 5 June are available here. Analysis Overall the Fund has made 1,147 grant awards totaling £20.63million. Initially the total available funding was £20m, but the Scottish Government has now pledged additional funding. Using a broad definition of organisations within the sporting system: • 247 grants (21.5% of total) have been made to sporting organisations totaling £3.59m (17.4%). • Of these awards to sport organisations, 116 clubs and 131 community organisations have received grants, with clubs receiving an average of £7.9k and community groups £20.4k. • A wide range of sports have been supported, with multisport organisations the most common (59 grants). Football is the most common single-sport organisations (33), followed by bowls (27), gymnastics (19), cycling (12), outdoor (11), and boxing (10). • Looking just as sports clubs, the breakdown by sports is bowls (27), gymnastics (19), football (15), boxing (10), golf and multi-sport (9 each), rugby (8), cricket (6), basketball and hockey (2 each), and a selection of other sports all have had one award.
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