The Changing Lives through Sport and Physical Activity Fund

17 partnerships receive £1 million to change lives.

The Changing Lives through Sport and Physical Activity Fund is a core element of the wider Changing Lives work, and provides short term additional resource into the sporting and community sector to better address wider individual and community needs through sport & physical activity and support them to become and stay active.

It directly supports 17 partnership organisations delivering sport and physical activity in their communities through a grant allocation and a programme of learning and support, which will aim to develop the awareness and skills of individuals to better be able to deliver positive impacts across their communities.

2 years grants from £30,000 up to £70,000 across 2018-2020 have been made available to partnerships meeting key criteria and delivering on the 4 Changing Lives themes below. In total up to £1 million has been made available for the Fund.

  • Sport for Inclusion
  • Sport for Health and Wellbeing
  • Sport for Skills
  • Sport for Communities

The Fund is delivered by Spirit of 2012 as part of the Changing Lives through Sport & Physical Activity programme.

Sport First articles

  • Memory Lane - partnership between Sporting Memories Foundation Scotland and Calderglen Sports Hub
  • Jogging the mind - partnership between jogscotland and Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH)
  • Basket fantastic - partnership between Scottish Sports Futures (SSF) and Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH)
  • Focus on...Walking netball - partnership between Netball Scotland and Age Scotland
  • Taking the lead - partnership between Youth Scotland and SAPC Community Sports Hubs
  • Kick start - partnership between Forth Valley College and Falkirk Football Community Foundation
  • Hearts of gold - partnership between Big Hearts Community Trust and Multi Cultural Family Base
  • A sporting chance - partnership between Active Communities and Who Cares? Scotland 
  • Jogging on together - partnership between jogscotland and Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH)
Date published: 29 March 2023
Date updated: 8 August 2023

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