Sports Facilities Fund

sportscotland’s Sports Facilities Fund is a scheme for the provision of new or the upgrading of existing facilities.  The programme is divided into two key strands: Community Facilities and Training and Competition Facilities.

Community Facilities

This strand covers the provision or upgrading of all facilities for the general community. In the main, proposals will be led by local authorities, clubs, trusts and the like.

Applicants will need to demonstrate that the proposed development is for the public good and will provide equitable opportunities for increased sports participation by the community at local level.

Applicants will also need to demonstrate what links they have established/will establish with the sports programmes and/or initiatives operated by the local authority, national governing body for sport and their associates/partners.

Training and competition facilities

Within this strand we will consider applications relating to the provision or upgrading of facilities at centres designated as a national/regional facility by the relevant national governing body for sport.

The facility will meet the needs of the governing body for international/national/regional competition, coaching or training, be part of the governing body's facility strategy and have been developed in consultation with the governing body.

Where facilities are not owned/controlled by a governing body a draft Access Agreement – including pricing policy – must be submitted with applications.

Download the Sports Facilities Fund Application Guidelines and Application Form.