Opportunities from the IOC, Youth Futures Foundation, the EU and ten others.

The definitive guide to finding opportunities, building partnerships and generating new income in the sports industry.

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On The Ball is a fortnightly newsletter and digital platform sharing opportunities, tools, tricks, and templates to help you unlock new income for your business or non-profit in sport.

We’ve got some BIG announcements coming over the next few months - watch this space!

This week we have 13 events, grants and/or funding competitions for you to consider. Don’t forget, only paid members get full access to the list.

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So, let’s get into it:

The European Executive Agency for Education and Culture (EACEA) is rolling out a Pilot Project prioritising community integration and the well-being of children and young people affected by humanitarian crises through sport. Eligible projects should aim to improve the mental well-being of these children and young people, using sport to help them overcome traumas, to facilitate and create links for children and young people within their new communities, and to inspire other sports clubs to support such programmes by promoting best practice. Organisations can apply if they are at a local/grassroots level, but should involve sports federations (acting as facilitators). The EACEA has a budget of 1,920,000 EUR that will support between five and seven projects. The fund will contribute up to 80% of the total budget, and each grant won’t exceed 400,000 EUR. The deadline for applications is the 17th November.

Youth Futures Foundation is welcoming applications for Phase One of its Evidence Into Action programme to support UK-based organisations to design and deliver on and off-the-job training activities and evaluate their impact. Organisations must support young people aged 16-24 within London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and/or West Midlands. To be eligible, the young people will identify as one or more of the following: Black, Mixed Black, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and/or Gypsy Roma Traveller heritage, AND who are Not in Education Employment or Training (NEET), or at risk of becoming NEET. There will be a maximum of 10 delivery grants awarded of up to £75,000 per year for up to three years alongside learning and development support (workshops, capacity building, evaluation) provided to the fund recipients. Organisations must have been established for at least 12 months and have an income of between £50,000 and £2,000,000. The deadline to apply via the online portal is September 9th.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is inviting applications through its new Olympism Innovation Hub for their Enterprise365 strand. Applicants can apply for one of two funding tiers: Seed or Scale support. This application is open to start-up (up to 2 years) Enterprises aligned with and those interested in integrating in sport for sustainable development, registered non-profits with evidential plans to introduce income generation models and/ or sustainable finance solutions into existing sport for sustainable development work for Seed or existing (2 years of older) Enterprises who currently work with or are interested in working with sport for sustainable development for Scale. This fund aims to support innovations that promote income generation models and sustainable finance solutions to advance sport for sustainable development across lower-income, or underserved communities. Enterprises can apply for up to $40,000 for 18 months through the seed funding tier, and up to $60,000 through the scale funding. The deadline for submitting an application to this strand is the 31st August.