Active Southwark Olympic Legacy Fund

The Active Southwark Olympic Legacy Fund is intended to support capital spending only. 

Capital spending is for buying assets or paying for their improvement and refurbishment. 

These assets must help increase participation in sport or physical activity beyond 1 season or year. They are expected to create community benefit with a lifespan of at least 5 years. 

Examples of capital spending include:

• building a new community space, like a sports pavilion or hall that can increase physical activity and target residents that are less active
• re-surfacing a community sports space to provide a better or safer experience
• refurbishing ancillary facilities, like toilets and changing rooms, where improved accessibility allows growth of activity, especially for D/deaf and disabled users and other less active residents
• equipment like goals, backboard/rings, skate ramps and outdoor gyms to increase active play through specific sports or activities (not traditional play equipment like slides and swings)
• new or replacement safety surfacing under equipment like climbing walls
• substantial items of outdoor leisure equipment like floodlights, goal posts, gym equipment, artificial wickets, line markings or cricket nets  
• lawn mowers and grounds maintenance equipment to enable greater use of sports and physical activity spaces for wider community benefit
• building adaptations like ramps to help disabled users to access physical activity
• PA and audio/visual systems like projectors, screens and sound systems to help grow participation at in-person or online activities
• new websites to promote your organisation or benefit the wider community
• substantial items of indoor leisure equipment like bowls, mats, gym equipment, tennis nets or snooker tables
• marquees or other outdoor equipment that can enable growth and extension of activities during poor weather and seasonal changes
• professional fees for creation of documents like feasibility studies, business plans or architect’s plans that will benefit an organisation’s development and improve their services 

This fund is not for revenue spending

Revenue spending is used to put on events or one-off activities and to pay for an organisation's running costs. We will not consider applications to cover this kind of cost.

Examples of revenue spending include paying for:

• events and trips
• coaching delivery
• venue hire
• office and printing costs
• transport
• staff salaries
• coordinator or project management fees
• lesson fees
• pitch or equipment hire
• training for a group or individual, (for example safeguarding, first aid or coaching courses)
• social opportunities that help prevent isolation and loneliness like food or entertainment

Others grants are available to help support revenue costs, for example, the Neighbourhoods Fund.