Opening School Facilities: Year 2

1. To support schools to open their facilities outside of the normal school day
   (evenings, weekends, and holidays) to allow children & young people and the
   wider community to access more opportunities to be physically active.
2. To open school swimming pools focusing on swimming and water safety
   lessons both during and outside the school day for pupils at their school and
   for pupils at other local schools.
3. To provide participants with a range of stimulating and enjoyable
   opportunities to take part in physical activity and sport, in addition to that
   experienced within PE lessons and extra curricular activities.
4. To ensure participants are signposted to take part in the same or similar
   activities in their local community, following the end of their participation in
   the programme

This is a three year programme until March 2025,  We are currently inviting schools to join  for year 2 (April 2023 – March 2024).  All allocated year 2 funds must be spent by March 2024.

The grant should not be used to fund capital expenditure. Where schools have an existing capitalisation policy, this should be used to determine whether proposed spending would be capital expenditure.

For Year 2, the application process is as follows:

• Open for applications from Monday 22nd May 2023
• Closing date for applications Friday 16^th June 2023
• Applications reviewed by Think Active week commencing 19th June 2023
• Schools invited to complete delivery plan to Think Active.
• School delivery plans submitted to Think Active by 10th July 2023.
• Funding Awards confirmed and Award Agreements sent to schools between 11th and 25th July 2023
• Funding committed or spent by March 31st 2024

Please note that the final decision on all funding to be allocated to schools will be made by the Active Partnerships National Team on receipt of the School Delivery Plan.

1. Supporting schools to open up to the community
2. Help schools with their own pool on site to safely reopen
3. Purchase additional sports, activity, and storage equipment (non-fixed items only)
4. To improve the accessibility of school sports facilities (especially SEND)
5. Additional short term staffing challenges
6. Providing CPD opportunities for staff
7. Develop existing websites
8. Swimming for schools without pools (secondary top up for those who can’t swim)

• All selected schools must sign a grant agreement form
• Schools should deliver a minimum  12 week programme for indoor and outdoor facilities with opportunities to continue after the initial period and/or a minimum of a 6 week programme for swimming and water safety activities with opportunities to continue after the initial
  period
• There should be an emphasis on sustainable change
• Schools are required to complete a delivery plan for year 2.  Schools funded in years 1 and 2 will then be invited to submit a delivery plan for year 3.
• Indoor and outdoor activities can be delivered before school, after school, evenings, weekends and holidays (not including
  curriculum or current extra curriculum school activities). Lunchtime activities are eligible in Special Schools
• Swimming activities can be delivered both during the school day, before and after school, evenings, weekends and holidays
• Activities can be delivered in holidays, in conjunction with HAF and other programmes, but must target new participants
• Needs to be a new or additional activity to what is already taking place
• All eligible items for expenditure, must be paid for first and then claimed in arrears
• All activities must evidence through reporting data monthly
• All schools must agree to take part in a local and national evaluation of the programme
• All schools must take part in the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey annually
• All schools must agree to consider the Creating Active Schools Framework