Teachers - have a question about schools having pockets of money available for curriculum/enhancement related sporting activities:)

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I am a teacher myself but not involved in the PE teaching/allocation of money.

Any primary teachers around who know of pockets of money available either withing their school/available to access for curriculum related PE sessions or enhancement activities?

Just doing a bit of research before developing a business idea further....

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I was talking to a friend last weekend. He is a PE advisory person (not sure of his title), and he was telling me about various schemes available. Without his info (which I've forgotten because he told me after 3 glasses of wine , I certainly wouldn't know about additional funds).

Hi, I'm not a teacher sorry, but my son's primary school somehow someplace wangled a way to get private swimming lessons / swimming club membership for a few kids at the school, which everyone I've asked about it is suprised about. There are definitely possibilities, I'm trying to find out more for school change in a couple of weeks...

Every child who is entitled a to a free school meal is entitled to a sum of money to access wider opportunties (quite a lot of money too). This can be anything however the money is given to schools and is not ringfenced and many schools are providing this in house.

The Football Foundation used to do grants to schools/clubs but I don't know if it still does. We got a lot of kit and equipment from them.

Awards for all-lottery funding. Schools can recieve grants from £300-£10000.

If the primary school is part of a School sports parnership. (feeder schools to sports colleges) The cluster of schools will have allocated funding. The person who is responsible for that budget is called a project development manager(PDM) That person will be based at the sports college.

There used to be a NOF out of hours funding programme but im not sure whether this is still running.

There is also the extended schools budget....

Its worth speaking to your parent support advisor, they are often good at finding pots of money.

There is a disadvantaged subsidy (often rebranded for a more family feel) scheme for those on free school meals/looked after children which is a set amount of money for extra curricular stuff.

Sainsbury's vouchers.