The fund, provided by the Department for Education, is designed to support schools open their existing sport facilities, including school swimming pools, for their pupils, local young people and the wider community outside of the school day.

As of 2024, London Sport has funded over 180 schools across London to run a variety of projects to achieve this aim. There have been 39,817 children and young people and 5,093 community user attendances at OSF sessions run so far.