Aims/priorities: From June 2025, Sport England is encouraging organisations to apply for grants for new initiatives that improve both environmental sustainability and physical activity opportunities for the people and communities who need it the most.
There is particular interest in initiatives that promote and support ‘climate justice’ – addressing the barriers facing those most affected by climate change to support them to access sport and physical activity opportunities.
Sport England is now looking for projects that:
- Show they will improve environmental sustainability by addressing at least one of the six Every Move priorities:
- Just transition: Inequalities, inclusion and participation
- Energy and resources: Carbon emissions – travel and facilities
- Energy and resources: Circular economy – supply chains, products and waste
- Nature: Blue-green environment quality and use
- Nature: Biodiversity
- Resilience: Adapting to climate change and extreme weather events.
- Show they will benefit physical activity in the community.
- Have a clear, feasible and reasonable delivery plan.
Projects that target at least one of the following priority groups are more likely to get funding:
- 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.
Who can apply? Not-for-profit organisations working with people living in England can apply.
To be eligible, organisations must:
- Be formally constituted with a clear purpose.
- Have at least three non-related trustees or directors who do not live together.
- Ensure decision making and voting rights are equally distributed between their trustees or directors.
- Meet Sport England’s Tier 1 Governance Code requirements (if applying for more than £10,000).
Grant amount: Between £300 and £15,000 are available.
Application process: The funding guidance and a short quiz which starts the application process can be found on the Sport England website.
Sport England new Investment priorities for the Every Move programme are available on the Sport England website.
Deadline: There are no deadlines for applications.
Contact information: Email: funding@sportengland.org
Website: The Movement Fund | Sport England