The Together Fund (formerly called the Tackling Inequalities Fund or “TIF”) is a fund from Sport England to reduce the negative impacts of Covid-19 and the cost of living crisis, and address any widening inequalities in participation rates in sport and physical activity.
Research from Sport England the arms-length body of government responsible for growing and developing grassroots sport shows that the following communities have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic:
Some of their insight suggests that the pandemic may have a significant impact on the opportunities of these communities to be physically active. And of course, we know that existing gaps could widen further.
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Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is the leading national user-led pan-disability charity. We are Disabled people leading change. The Get Yourself Active team at DR UK has worked with Sport England for over six years now to achieve positive change in how we access physical activity.
As a National Partner of Sport England, we deliver award money from the Together Fund to Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) and local, community-based organisations.
At Get Yourself Active we know how important it is to reduce the inequalities in physical activity experienced by Disabled people and people with long-term health conditions.
We are keen to ensure that everyone can get active in a way that suits them. And we know how barriers to participation intersect with impairment, religion, race, gender identity, and class. We understand how important local and grassroots organisations are in redressing the imbalance.
We know that these are often run by the goodwill and dedication of local volunteers and the passion of committed community leaders. We want to support them with the Together Fund.
We are interested in ideas that show the value of co-produced approaches to tackling inactivity and that can demonstrate impact.
Generally speaking, if your project can answer yes to the following five questions, it should be suitable for inclusion (as long as all items of expenditure and the organisation are eligible):
UK Deaf Sport are asking the Government to end the discrimination against elite deaf athletes by funding them to compete at the Deaflympics, on par with their support for Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
The government has launched a new strategy with an aim of getting 3.5 million people more active, but with very little acknowledgement of the current inaccessibility of activity for groups such as Disabled people.
Read about Sport England’s new impact report into the work they’ve been doing to improve physical activity.
This is the latest report from British Cycling into Disabled people’s cycling experiences.
This news story details the letter that Level Playing Field is writing to the organisers of the Olympics and Paralympics.
We still have funds remaining from Sport England for the Together Fund and are therefore also inviting our current partners to reapply for additional funding to either extend their current (or previous) TIF project or to deliver a new project idea.
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