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Opening School Facilities Fund

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.

Space For Girls

Our Space for Girls project creates safe, welcoming hubs in key London communities for women and girls to be physically active.

The project aims to serve communities with low activity levels by transforming unused and non-traditional spaces into active hubs. Space for Girls is a research-led project, with extensive community voice involved within its planning. Consortia of local communities and teenage girls were consulted to ensure the activities on offer were of interest to the target audience, and that the location of the projects were deemed safe and accessible.

Lewisham CommUNITY Hub

The CommUNITY Space was a once-vacant shopping unit which has since been transformed into a wellbeing space which provides a safe and comfortable environment for the local community to be active.

There is a range of free activities on offer including yoga, dance, archery, table tennis, Zumba, boxing, and spin classes, as well as women-only sessions which have been created in consultation with local women and girls.

Crown Lane Primary

From the first round of funding we were able to purchase some new equipment that was to be used for the Football and Tennis after school clubs.

We purchased new footballs, goals and storage facilities for the equipment. For tennis we purchased new racquets, balls and nets.

From a football prospective aside from helping to keep pupils healthy, football can also improve children’s transferable skills such as ABC’s (agility, balance and coordination). As tennis is such a versatile sport, it’s also a great way to engage children of all fitness levels and instil good exercise habits for their future.

See what Max Whitlock said during a recent primary school visit

More information and contact details:

For more information and support around our School Facilities programme,
please contact us on [email protected]

We are not currently accepting OSF applications

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London Sport has helped me more than I ever could of imagined

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