AQW 21668/17-22 Written question to the Minister for Communities
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of funding distributed by the Sports Sustainability Fund in each constituency.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 8 July 2021
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 8 July 2021
- Answer due by
- 27 July 2021
- Answered
- 27 July 202119 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Sports Governing Bodies were required to apply for the Sports Sustainability Fund on behalf of themselves and their affiliated clubs. As such, 35 sport Governing Bodies received funding for their affiliated clubs and/or themselves totalling £23.01m. There were 452 individual beneficiaries of the Fund. These included 430 sports clubs.
As part of the agreed governance arrangements, Sport NI is currently working through a verification and vouching process which includes postcode checks. This process is currently ongoing and as such the amount of funds distributed by constituency is not yet available.
I can advise that the detail of funding awarded to each governing body is provided on Sport NI’s website at http://www.sportni.net/funding/our-funding-programmes/sports-sustainability-fund/sports-sustainability-fund-awards-list/. Clicking the award amount, highlighted in green, will take you to a secondary webpage which lists the award each individual club affiliated to that governing body received.