11th April, 2024
Acknowledging and celebrating your grant When you receive funding from us, we want you to shout about it from the rooftops! You’ll need Sport NI and National Lottery branding to do this. There are marketing and publicity requirements included in the Terms & Conditions of your grant and these pages provide you with the necessary…Continue reading this article →
8th September, 2023
Sports Systems Investment – New Governing Bodies is a funding programme specifically targeting Recognised sports organisations who have not been eligible to apply for funding through the Sports System Investment – Governing Bodies element of National Lottery funding this year. This investment is to help Recognised governing bodies, not currently funded in the sector, to have…Continue reading this article →
11th July, 2023
Sport NI is delighted to be a statutory partner in Community Planning, across all 11 District Councils. At the heart of Sport NI’s corporate plan ‘The Power of Sport’, is increasing and sustaining participation in sport and physical activity through connected communities. Rates of participation in sport and physical activity vary with those most inactive…Continue reading this article →
17th February, 2023
*** CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS*** Sport Northern Ireland is now welcoming applications for the 2023/24 Athlete Awards Programme. The investment aims to contribute to the essential personal living costs of an athlete to help them train and maximise their potential. The Athlete Awards is in line with outcome two within Sport NI’s Corporate Plan which…Continue reading this article →
16th February, 2023
Daniel Wiffen, Paris Olympics gold and bronze medalist, and previous recipient of the athlete award. Welcome to the Sport NI Athlete Awards 2024-25 Purpose In this investment, where applicable, Sport NI will contribute to the essential personal living costs of an athlete. This investment aims to enable athletes to train in order to maximise potential. …Continue reading this article →
27th January, 2023
The Athlete Award programme investment aims to help ‘Our (NI) athletes be among the best in the World’, by targeting athletes who have the potential to achieve success and excel in Olympics, Paralympics and Commonwealth Games. For the 2017-23 period our Athlete Awards supported 235 individual athletes and 4 team sports, with 54 athletes transitioning…Continue reading this article →
20th January, 2023
Sports System Investment – Governing Bodies Who is this investment for? Governing Bodies currently in receipt of Sports Systems Investment Governing Body Award. Investment into other Governing Bodies not within SSIGB will open in 2024. Why are we investing in Sports Governing Bodies? We recognise the deep-rooted inequalities in sport, which mean people have been…Continue reading this article →
3rd March, 2021
Sports Sustainability Fund Awards List Governing Body No. of clubs included Requested Amount Approved Amount 2 & 4 Wheels Motorsport Steering Group 9 £227,245 £227,268 American Football Ireland 1 £4,027 £9,652 Archery NI 0 £2,797 £2,797 Association Irish Indoor Bowls 2 £45,706 £43,540 Athletics NI 6 £225,631 £225,631 Basketball NI 3 £71,681 £51,015 British Gymnastics…Continue reading this article →
25th January, 2021
What is the Governing Body Support Programme? This Governing Body Support Programme has been developed as part of Sport Northern Ireland’s (Sport NI) response to the Covid-19 pandemic through its ‘Supporting Sport to Build Back Better’ initiative, funded by the National Lottery. The Programme will provide an investment opportunity for Recognised Governing Bodies to enable…Continue reading this article →
7th January, 2021
A Re-Boot for sport Sport NI launches £5m National Lottery investment: Supporting Sport to Build Back Better, starting with Project Re-Boot: 7th JANUARY 2021: Sport NI’s ‘Supporting Sport to Build Back Better’ programme has been launched to strengthen the sports sector as we emerge from COVID19. Now, more than ever, the sporting sector is…Continue reading this article →