Sportivate

South Yorkshire Programme

The South Yorkshire Sportivate Programme is currently delivering its Year 1 Programme through a range of deliverers. Take a look at the download over on the left hand side for our current Year 1 Sportivate Plan.

South Yorkshire Sport, Sport England and Commissioning Projects

Strategic delivery and overall management of the Sportivate Programme in South Yorkshire will be led by South Yorkshire Sport and we will directly commission deliverers to deliver. Delivery of Sportivate is within any one or more quarters over a standard year; April - June, July - September, October - December and January - March. Commissions will be released by South Yorkshire Sport in six-monthly cycles. Commissions will always be for April - September delivery and for October - March delivery and will be released approximately 6-months in advance. For more information on our latest commission please see the apply for funding section.

South Yorkshire Sport, through the Sportivate Steering Group and Technical Panel will make decisions on successful projects and these projects will form part of the South Yorkshire Sportivate Plan. Deliverers will be informed of decisions and those successful projects will be given the option of accepting a Sportivate grant from South Yorkshire Sport against the partnership agreement terms and conditions. For more information on our Steering Group and Technical Panel, please see the relevant sections.

The South Yorkshire Sportivate Plan will be submitted to Sport England for approval. Sportivate deliverers must be advised that Sport England have the final approval on funding and projects to be delivered as they are the licensed National Lottery funding distributor. No secondary distribution of lottery funding is allowed. Therefore, projects that form the Sportivate Plan will not receive final approval until this is received from Sport England.

South Yorkshire Funding and Targets

Of the £32 million funding for the National Sportivate programme, Sport England are investing a total of £31.6 million to the 49 County Sport Partnerships in England. Funding distribution has been worked out on the basis of the percentage share of the 14-25 population as calculated by the 2009 interim census data (actually uses 15-24 data). This interim census updates the most recent 2001 census year-on-year until the next census takes place in 2011. Importantly, for Sportivate, because of the target group's age range, students are taken to be resident at their term time address.

Due to Sportivate funding coming from the National lottery (and not the exchequer), funding not used in any one year can be rolled over to the subsequent year. Any unachieved targets will also roll over into subsequent years. This gives greater flexibility on how the total Sportivate funding award can be profiled over the 4 years of the programme. South Yorkshire Sport will receive funding for our Sportivate programme which will be used for both capacity and delivery purposes. Our total 4-year funding award is £903,760, for a total retain target of 8,472.

Each year of the programme, South Yorkshire Sport will release a certain amount of funding for delivery of Sportivate projects for which an overall retain target across all projects must be achieved. There will be 2 routes for projects wishing to apply for Sportivate funding in South Yorkshire; the Community and Flagship routes. For more information on this please see below and the apply for funding section.

The South Yorkshire Commissioning Model

There are two routes to accessing the South Yorkshire Sportivate programme; the Community and Flagship routes. These routes both lend themselves to differences in scope of project and are intended to increase opportunity for all types of projects and their deliverers, whilst also factoring in the greatest funding ratio for those deliverers with the least capacity, and allowing those with greater capacity or those delivering large-scale projects to do so using appropriate economies of scale. Learning has indicated that a typical community sports club/community group with average capacity and size would deliver no more than 6 blocks of activities over a standard year, and they would typically be working with a retain target of around 40-60. The figure below explains our commissioning model.