Sport Birmingham

Sport Birmingham is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1155171).

Sport Birmingham is a charity that aims to inspire and motivate Birmingham, working with its communities to create a lasting legacy of healthy living up to and beyond the Commonwealth Games. The Active Birmingham Place Programme is delivered by a consortium task force of Sport Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, The Active Wellbeing Society, Public Health and Streetgames. The total proposed grant allocation for its seven Local Systems Partners is £1.3 million, of which Sport England has currently confirmed £910,000, or 70%.

Priority Areas

Sport Birmingham says it often has funding to allocate, alongside helping local community groups and clubs find other opportunities. Its described Active Birmingham Place Programme supports Local System Partners to build the capacity of Local Community Partners, develop activity networks and encourage physical and wellbeing activity at community level. The associated Local Community Partner funding helps community organisations participate in the programme, strengthen their organisation, local impact and reach, and collaborate across the area; it may support one-off engagement activity encouraging children, young people and families to be more active, rather than ongoing or mainstream activity. Local System Partners coordinate and support local partners instead of directly delivering physical-activity or wellbeing sessions. More broadly, Sport Birmingham focuses on physical and mental wellbeing, community connection, skills and resilience, and reducing inequalities, concentrating resources where need is greatest.

Themes

• Community physical activity

Geographic Focus

North LAP; Central LAP; East LAP (North); East LAP (South); West LAP (North); West LAP (South); South LAP.

For funding advice, get in touch for a chat about the latest opportunities. Under the Active Birmingham Place Programme, applicants email applications and attachments to grants@sportsbirmingham.org; an independent panel scores proposals against the application questions.

What to send:

• Active Birmingham Local System Partner
  • All applications and attachments
  • You do not need to have identified all your Local Community Partners (LCPs) when submitting your application.

What the charity says:

• LSP applicants must demonstrate an established physical presence, active involvement in the area and a track record of supporting and championing local communities.
• It welcomes collaborative applications where organisations bring complementary strengths, local knowledge and reach across different wards or communities.
• Collaborative applications need one organisation to act as the accountable body and take responsibility for the contractual arrangements.