New Sports Capital Programme available for Tipperary Clubs
Sports Clubs in Tipperary are invited to apply for the new round of Sports Capital Grants.
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross T.D. and the Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin T.D., announced that €40 million is being made available under a new round of the Sports Capital Programme (SCP).
The SCP is the Government’s primary vehicle for providing support to sports clubs and communities to develop sports infrastructure around the country.
All applicants must be registered on the Department’s online system and the guide to making an application was also published on the Department’s website: www.sportscapitalprogramme.ie.
Applications can only be made online from 9.00am on Friday 7th September until 5.00pm on Friday 19th October 2018.
The programme funds: - Natural grass sports pitches, tracks and courts (including pitch drainage)
- Floodlighting
- Artificial sports pitches, tracks, courts and multi-use games areas
- Security fencing, ball stop-netting and goal posts
- Hurling walls / handball alleys
- Building or refurbishment of dressing rooms, showers and toilets
- Building or refurbishment of sports halls and gyms
- Non-personal equipment including lawn mowers and defibrillators.
- Any other capital projects that are clearly sporting in nature and that will increase participation in sport or improve performance
Commenting on the opening of the application process, Minister of State, Brendan Griffin highlighted the changes to the terms of the new programme.
“While the Sports Capital Programme is already hugely popular with sports clubs across so many different sporting disciplines, we are determined to make the application process as simple and user-friendly as possible.
“We undertook a detailed review of the 2017 round of the Sports Capital Programme and the recommendations arising have been fully factored in to the new terms and conditions of the 2018 scheme.
“In particular, we are introducing some significant changes in our assessment methodology to ensure that we minimise the number of invalid applications. We will also give even greater priority to applications from disadvantaged areas and projects that promote the sharing of sports facilities with other clubs and the wider community.”
The scheme is welcomed by Tipperary T.D. Alan Kelly (Lab) as well as Fine Gael General Election candidate Garret Ahearn (FG) added “I am delighted that this year, following an agreement by both the Department if Education and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, all schools will now be able to avail of the Sports Capital Grant Scheme, regardless of the who owns the school’s land so long as they do so jointly with a sports club. This is a great opportunity and I encourage all interested schools to apply.”