SPORTIN SCHOOLS
PROGRAMME

SUPPORTIN SPORT Funding 2026

Applications for SPORTIN SCHOOLS Programme funding will be open 18 March – 18 April 2026.

During the 2026/27 academic year, the SPORTIN SCHOOLS Programme will continue to provide opportunities for more children to experience more sport in schools.

Over the last two years, sports like Skateboarding, Kickboxing and Padel have been some of 21 different sports delivered within 26 local primary and secondary schools, providing new and exciting opportunities for our young people to try sports they wouldn’t usually be exposed to. Having these activities delivered by sport helps promote the community sport pathways for children to keep participating in sport outside of the school setting.

The SPORTIN SCHOOLS Programme aims to:

• Increase funding into, and capacity within, local sport organisations.
• Respond to the needs and demands of sport by improving greater equitable access to young islanders within school settings.
• Support schools and their students access more opportunities to external sport provision and specialised sports coaching by centrally coordinating sport delivery.
• Reduce the administrative burden on sports and schools.
• Provide opportunities for sport-specific skill development and mentoring for both teachers and sports workforce.
• Reduce inequalities in school-sport provision by removing the cost barrier for schools to access sport.

How the Programme works for Sports

• Jersey Sport will co-ordinate the timetabling of activity between sports and schools by aligning the intent and resource of sports with the needs of schools.
• Sports will receive £25 per session of delivery, distributed prior to each school term. Additional monies can be made available where additional workforce and/or sport’s own facility space is used to deliver the programme.
• Session delivery will be between 40 minutes – 1 hour, depending on each school’s timetabling. The volume of delivery will be coordinated based on sport’s availability, school needs and feasibility of the programme.
• All applications are reviewed against an assessment framework measuring each sport’s impact against the programme’s aims and criteria.

Applications require sports to detail their ability and desire to deliver in schools during the 2026/27 academic year in the following categories:

• Setting – Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, or both
• Age – Year groups
• Location – East, West, or Town
• Season – Autumn, Spring or Summer Term
• Time – Before, during or after school timetabled hours

Sport organisations will be required to engage with the Jersey Sport team throughout the programme, as well as report on the impact of the programme towards the development of their sport. This will focus on the number of children who have followed pathways into sport outside of the school setting as a result of the SPORTIN SCHOOLS Programme.

Application Process

Before beginning your online application for any of our SUPPORTIN SPORT funding opportunities, your sport organisation will need to:

1. Log in to our Organisation Hub (or register for an account if you don’t already have one).
2. Select the ‘Apply for Funding and/or update your Health Check’ icon to access Jersey Sport’s online governance and funding management system, SmartSimple.
3. Complete or edit your organisation’s Safe and Sustainable Sport Health Check.
4. Make an application for SPORTIN SCHOOLS funding through the ‘Funding Opportunities’ section on your SmartSimple homepage.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Reporting

As a condition of award for all successful applicants, sport organisations will be required to engage with the Jersey Sport Team throughout the project, providing progress updates and assurance of safe and sustainable delivery. Sport organisations will be required to report on the impact of the fund’s investment in the development of their sport at the end of each term of delivery.

Sport organisations must satisfactorily meet all reporting requirements to access future funding opportunities with Jersey Sport. Jersey Sport may withhold up to 25% of an award until all reporting requirements are met.

How the Programme works for Schools

• Schools will be required to detail their timetable availability to welcome sports to deliver during each term.
• Jersey Sport will co-ordinate the timetabling of activity between sports and schools by aligning the needs of schools with the resource and intent of sports, dependant on their individual contexts.
• Each school that opts into the programme will receive one term of free sport delivery from a range of local sport organisations.
• All associated costs are funded by Jersey Sport.

USEFUL INFORMATION

Jersey Sport are proud to coordinate and support the delivery of Jersey’s Primary and Secondary School Sports Events. Find out more:

SCHOOL SPORT EVENTS