Their Vision: Healthy and resilient communities with sport and physical activity at their heart. Their Mission: We help develop sustainable sports organisations, by supporting them to take ownership of facilities, develop new resources and diversify their revenue streams.

1. The first sport for impact social
investment fund in England

2. Sporting Assets
Our Vision: Healthy and resilient communities with sport and
physical activity at their heart.
Our Mission: We help develop sustainable sports organisations, by
supporting them to take ownership of facilities, develop new
resources and diversify their revenue streams.

3. Sporting Assets
What we do:
• Feasibility studies
• Sports and business development
• Sports asset ownership
• Raising finance
Who we work with:
• Community sports clubs
• Sport for impact organisations
• Community organisations
• Local authorities
• Sports National Governing Bodies
• Sport England

4. What is social investment?
Finance where investors receive a financial return
and create social impact
Grants
Social
investment
Mainstream
investment
Social
impact
Financial
return
Both social
impact plus
financial
return

5. What is social investment?
“Social investment” can take different forms, including:
• Secured loan
• Unsecured loan
• Social impact bonds
• Community shares
• More information: www.goodfinance.org.uk

6. Why social investment?
1. Recycles money
2. Attracts new money
3. Encourages sustainability
Investor perspective

7. Why social investment?
1. Start up business
2. Growth and innovation
Investee perspective
3. Cash flow
4. Asset purchase

8. Sporting Capital
Introduction
• Funding between £50,000 and £150,000
• A repayable, unsecured loan
• The fund is delivered by:
• Aim to invest in 30 projects from now until June 2020

9. Sporting Capital
Who is eligible?
4. Social impact through sport
3. Community based services
5. Business model that delivers sustainable revenue
1. Based in England
2. Incorporated

10. Sporting Capital
What is eligible?
• Organisations looking to develop new projects, operations and
revenue streams
• We cannot fund the ‘bricks and mortar’ of a capital development
such as a new roof or new facility
• Funding can be used for projects and activities such as:
• Recruitment, training and deployment of staff and volunteers
• Fit out costs
• Marketing
• New equipment

11. Sporting Capital
Investment examples
• Community sports club - fit out costs for
underused area
• Sport for impact charity – broadening services
• Community sport provider – geographical
growth

12. Sporting Capital
Loan details
• Between £50,000 and £150,000
• A repayable, unsecured loan
• Interest rates between 5% and 10%, depending on the
risk and impact of the project
• Capital repayment holiday of up to 2 years
• Term thereafter is between 3 and 5 years

13. Sporting Capital
Investment Process
The whole process typically takes 3 to 4 months, depending on the
speed of responses and quality of supporting information from
investees.
Online application
• Initial call/meeting
• Supporting docs
First stage investment
committee
Due diligence
Legal documents
Funds deployed
Monitoring and
reporting
Second stage
investment committee

14. Sporting Capital
Case Study 1 – Cycle Pathways CIC
Leeds Urban Bike Park
–project and vision
Sporting Capital
investment = £100,000
Social impact

15. Sporting Capital
Contact Information
For further information please visit our website at:
https://www.sportingcapital.org.uk
Or contact us at:
enquiries@sportingcapital.org.uk
020 3637 8232