Sports Club Support

The Active Lives & Sports Development Team offer a wide range of support for sports clubs and groups. This may include developing mentors, support with volunteer recruitment, applying for funding, making your club sustainable through improving club structures, or supporting you to gain National Governing Body Clubmark accreditation. One of our main aims is to increase quality sport and physical activity opportunities within St Helens. If your club is looking for advice or support, contact sportsdevelopment@sthelens.gov.uk or phone 01744 675403.

Education and Training 

Buddle is the new home of previously named 'Club Matters', a Sport England Lottery funded programme that provides free resources, support, guidance and workshops to grassroots sports clubs, groups and community organisations. These resources are designed to help your organisation set up, develop, grow, reach new communities and maximise engagement with members. Visit the website to access their support:

UK Coaching provides support, tools and courses to assist coaches to develop skills, inspire people and transform lives.

For sports specific coaching qualifications, contact your National Governing Body. 

Funding

Sport England are an arms-length body of government responsible for growing and developing grassroots sport and getting more people active across England. They work to keep movement, sport and physical activity central to the lives of everyone, through a combination of National Lottery funding and grant-in-aid from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Around two-thirds of their funding comes from lottery players.

National Lottery Awards for All provides funding between £300 and £10,000 to deliver new or existing activities which help bring people together, building strong relationships in and across communities, improve the places and spaces that matter to communities, or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges. 

Asda Foundation Grants provide funding for local groups, supporting a broad range of activities which contribute towards transforming communities and improving lives

Funding sources change frequently. If you have a specific project you need funding for, contact us and we can help to find the latest available options.

Volunteering

Volunteer Centre Halton & St Helens can help you find a volunteering opportunity and also advertise your club's volunteer vacancies. 

Find a Local Sports Club

We have a wide variety of sports clubs in St Helens. To help you find a local club, we have compiled the following A-Z links of 'Find a Club' databases, which are managed by the relevant National Governing Bodies:

• Angling
• Archery
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Bowls
• Boxing
• Canoeing
• Cricket
• Cycling
• Dance 
• Equestrian
• Football
• Golf
• Gymnastics
• Hockey
• Judo
• Ju Jitsu
• Netball
• Rounders
• Rugby League
• Rugby Union
• Running
• Sailing
• Squash
• Sub-Aqua
• Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Taekwondo
• Tennis
• Triathlon
• Walking

If the sport or activity you are interested in is not listed above, you can contact as via sportsdevelopment@sthelens.gov.uk and we can assist you to find your nearest opportunity.

St Helens Active Lives & Sports Development is not responsible for the accuracy of information provided by third-parties and accepts no liability relating to any information contained on the sites listed. We advise any person(s) using the club/session finders listed above, to make the relevant checks with regards to the information/data being advertised, before taking part in any sporting activity.