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 Places People Play Opens Third Funding Stream

Sport England launches scheme to renovate or improve existing sports facilities and promote sports participation.

Inspired Facilities is part of the Places People Play programme, which is to deliver a London 2012 legacy of increased mass participation in sport, and is investing £50 million of National Lottery funding in up to 1000 community sports projects between 2011 and 2014.

The scheme is designed to support voluntary and public sector groups to refurbish and improve existing facilities, or develop an existing building for sports use in the community.

Eligible improvements must fall under the following headings:

• Building modernisation.
• Outdoor sports lighting.
• Outdoor sports surfaces and AdiZones.
• Modular buildings.
• Sports equipment.

Community organisations and parish and town councils are eligible for grants ranging from £20,000 to £50,000, and 70% of the overall funding will be allocated to this category.

Local authorities, statutory bodies and educational institutions are eligible for grants ranging from £20,000 to £150,000.
The funding rounds are:

There will are five funding rounds, the first three being:

• 1 August to 28 September 2011.
• 1 February 2012 to 2 April 2012.
• 23 July 2012 to 17 September 2012.

Rounds four and five will take place in 2013 and 2014 and will be announced after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Arts Council England Announce Catalyst Arts Details

Arts Council England have announced further details of their new £40 million fund to help support arts organisations.

Announced last December by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Arts Council England, the Catalyst Arts fund is part of a £80 million scheme to help boost philanthropy to the arts.

The Catalyst Arts Fund will be invested in three different ways:

• £30 million of Lottery funds will be invested in an integrated match-funding and capacity building scheme to increase arts organisations’ ability to fundraise. This fund will offer tailored awards that cover a three-year period. It will be open to individual organisations, or organisations working together, who have some experience of fundraising. This investment is designed to allow organisations to develop their ideas and capability in the first year, and then explore innovative ways of using match-funding to generate and secure new private giving.

• £7 million of Lottery funds will be invested in a one-off grant scheme to support arts organisations with less experience to build their fundraising capacity. Awards ranging from £15,000 - £25,000 will provide individual organisations, or organisations working together, with the tools and skills needed to begin to raise, or increase their private income.

• A further £3 million of Lottery funds will be invested in making available practical advice on how to secure new sources of funding. Part of this money will also be used to share the knowledge gained from Catalyst Arts with the wider sector.

Chief Executive of Arts Council England, Alan Davey, said:

“We said when we announced this scheme that we wanted it to be different from match-funding that has gone before. We said we wanted it to enhance – and not simply replace – existing gifts, and that it should work for arts organisations of all shapes and sizes, even those who have little experience of fundraising.

“In the same way that the Arts Council wants organisations to have the support and space to take artistic risks and be creative, we believe this fund will allow them to do the same with private giving; enabling them to build their skills and test new fundraising ideas, then share that knowledge with the wider sector.”

Further details of the fund will be published in September 2011.

For further information, visit the Arts Council England website (opens new window).

Source: Arts Council England, 04/07/11

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