| The Mason Foundation |
£249,972 |
The Mason Foundation is a registered charity which supports, connects and empowers disadvantaged communities to come together by providing a simple solution to tackle inequality. The funding will allow them to help 1,500 more people with long-term physical and mental barriers to being active via 150 newly trained volunteers and 45 newly engaged partners. |
| National Childbirth Trust (NCT) |
£220,842 |
The NCT is a 65-year-old registered charity which provides support and information for all things antenatal to postnatal. This award will help them to expand, improve and update their Walk and Talk volunteer-led walking groups for expectant and new parents, over the next two years. The programme focuses on inactive women, culturally non-majority communities and deprived socioeconomic groups, all of whom face barriers to being active, particularly during this period of their lives. |
| Bloomsbury Football Foundation |
£250,000 |
Bloomsbury Football Foundation is a charitable incorporated organisation which supports underprivileged young people across eight London boroughs to deliver grassroots football. With this award, Bloomsbury communities will provide support to young people aged 3-18, primarily girls, from disadvantaged communities, to access programmes taking place on local housing estates. |
| Dallaglio RugbyWorks |
£247,406 |
Dallaglio RugbyWorks is a registered charity which uses rugby and its core values of teamwork, respect, discipline and sportsmanship to equip young people who are excluded from education with the life skills and attitudes they need to move into sustained education, employment or training after school. They will use this award to deliver programmes in youth clubs and local sports venues in deprived areas of Birkenhead, Hartlepool, Leicester and Birmingham over the next three years. |
| Level Water |
£247,000 |
Level Water is a registered charity which is the only national organisation specialising in disability learn-to-swim and iss recognised as an established leader in this field. They will use this fund to recruit, train and install inclusion specialist swimming teachers in locations across the nation to address their 3,000+ waiting list of children with disabilities hoping to learn to swim, 60% of whom do not have the financial means or ability to access any other physical activity. |
| Community Integrated Care |
£250,000 |
Community Integrated Care is a registered charity and one of the largest and most successful social care charities in the UK. They offer a range of specialised services to individuals with learning disabilities, autism, mental health concerns, dementia, physical disabilities, and complex care needs. With this award, they will run a programme of 'Sustaining, Scaling and Innovation' in support of Uniting the Movement. They will be able to continue delivering multiple physical activity sessions in multiple locations, while scaling up their work to reach more people, encouraging more activity and opportunities. |
| The Greenbank Project |
£250,000 |
The Greenbank Project is a registered charity, aiming to provide inclusive and relevant opportunities to disabled people and other disadvantaged groups, serving over 17,000 people with disabilities each year. With this award, they will create five new hubs to offer power hockey to 300 people not functionally able to take part in other available activities due to disability or long-term health conditions. |
| Belong: The Cohesion and Integration Network |
£250,000 |
The Cohesion and Integration Network is a national charity with a solid understanding of how factors such as lack of representation, fear of judgement and cultural and social factors can impact levels of participation in sport and physical activity. This award will fund a project to increase and sustain physical activity among people from lower socio-economic groups, ethnically non-majority communities and women and girls in six areas of high deprivation. |
| ParkPlay Ltd |
£221,000 |
ParkPlay is a registered charity which offers free outdoor non-competitive activities, designed to meet the needs of all participants regardless of age, background and ability, creating a safe place for people to connect and get active. This award will allow ParkPlay to scale up their offer across 200 new communities in areas of the greatest need, aiming to reach 20,000 active participants. |
| Fitmums and Friends |
£199,352 |
Fitmums and Friends is a registered charity which provides a range of mixed-ability running, walking, cycling and buggy sessions to help increase physical activity levels and provide opportunities for participants to make connections, across 22 currently active groups. This award will allow the organisation to respond to a recent surge of requests to participate in programmes supporting needs such as bereavement support through yoga and for children, menopause support, projects for those with learning disabilities, chair-based activities for the elderly and exercise sessions during school drop-off. |
| Open Minds Active CIC |
£210,000 |
Open Minds Active CIC is a registered community interest company working in and around Bristol and the South West, with a purpose to strengthen mental health and wellbeing within communities, widen access and create opportunities for excluded citizens. This fund will allow them to grow the reach of their three main activity programmes, including wild swimming, over the next three years to address health inequalities and physical inactivity for the most excluded citizens and disadvantaged groups in their area. Many of the women (60%) referred to the programme new to the city and often refugees, seeking asylum or from culturally diverse communities. |
| Sporting Memories Network CIC |
£243,932 |
Sporting Memories Network CIC is part of a social enterprise that helps older people to reminisce, replay and reconnect through the power of sport and physical activity. They support a wide range of people aged 50-plus, including those living with dementia, depression or loneliness, to improve their mental and physical wellbeing through regular club sessions within local communities across the UK. This award will fund a project to support older people who are currently inactive, many of whom have a long-term health condition which deters them from taking part in mainstream activity provision. |
| Cycling UK |
£248,734 |
Cycling UK is a registered charity which runs a range of projects, groups and programmes to encourage people to cycle, by making cycling more accessible. With this award, a network of community cycling clubs will be supported to deliver appropriate cycling activities within their communities. The funding will allow for the continued support of 29 existing clubs and 32 new clubs across England in areas of higher ethnic diversity and areas of higher levels of socio-economic deprivation. |
| Dame Kelly Holmes Trust |
£224,578 |
Dame Kelly Holmes Trust is a registered charity which supports 11 to 25-year-olds in both education and in the community. They inform and inspire by training former champions from the world of elite sport to coach and mentor young people to success. This award will support two programmes, the first of which is to increase physical activity levels among disadvantaged young people within deprived areas of South Yorkshire and the Liverpool City Region. They will also support young people in hospital with life-limiting health conditions and long-term illnesses, using world-class athletes to mentor, train and motivate them into activity, which may aid their recovery and support better health beyond the programme.
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| The Outdoor Partnership |
£249,549 |
The Outdoor Partnership is a community partnership charitable company which aims to change lives through outdoor activities. This award will allow it to target more areas with high socio-economic deprivation in inner-city London boroughs, Birmingham, Brighton, Devon and Cornwall, while continuing to develop work in Yorkshire, Cumbria, Plymouth and Coventry. |
| British Ice Skating |
£174,669 |
British Ice Skating is the national governing body for ice skating in the UK. They aim to increase representation of ethnically diverse communities and disabled people across sport by providing more inclusive and accessible opportunities to participate. This award will support them in developing their work with people with disabilities. |
| International Mixed Ability Sports |
£247,255 |
International Mixed Ability Sports is a CIC based in Bradford, which stemmed from the lack of opportunity for people with disabilities to take part in mainstream community sport as equal members without being separated, classified or identified. This award will allow them to expand their activities across additional areas of deprivation, with a focus on supporting people of British South Asian heritage, women, and people with disabilities or long-term health conditions. |
| SMILE Through Sport |
£215,875 |
SMILE Through Sport is a charitable incorporated organisation in north-east England which provides sport, physical activity and leisure activities to individuals of all ages, disabilities and backgrounds. This award will support them to deliver physical activity sessions for people with complex disabilities in community settings, while also delivering CPD, courses and e-learning to organisations and individuals to increase capacity in the region to support the needs of disabled people in being more active. They aim to attract over 2,200 participants and to work with 15 partner organisations as part of this work. |
