Sport England Unveils £38.3m Community Pot

Sport England has unveiled an investment of £38.3 million in community sports
clubs and coaching across the country for the next three years.

The funding will create 2, 647 enhanced and improved sports clubs and 654
coaches between now and March 2010, increasing opportunities for people across
England to get more involved in sport.

Commented Derek Mapp, Chairman of Sport England: ‘Clubs and coaches are at
the heart of community sport. This investment will play a vital role in helping
us achieve our aim of getting two million people participating more in sport by
2012. This is a major boost for community sport and will make the job of people
on the ground who make sport happen much easier.’

The club and coach funding awards for each region are, in principle, as
follows:

East: £3, 174, 971
East Midlands: £3, 181, 764
West Midlands: £4, 020,
990
South East: £3, 760, 910
South West: £2,129,346
North East: £2,
998, 501
North West: £5, 103, 690
Yorkshire: £4, 376, 419
London: £3,
552, 605

The remaining £5.5 million will be invested into national governing bodies of
sport (NGBs) at a national level to provide support officers to clubs and
coaches.

Each of Sport England’s nine Regional Sports Boards decided in March how the
investment should be spent in their region to increase participation in sport.
The investment goes towards Sport England’s ambition of getting two million
people participating more in sport by 2012.