Sport England’s Places and Spaces fund is being boosted to £7 million as it goes nationwide to help communities across England benefit from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Originally launched in November, with £3.5m to cater for organisations from the West Midlands, Sport England is now committing extra National Lottery funding to extend the fund across England and help community organisations make small-scale facility improvements that will help to develop places and spaces wanting to use Birmingham 2022 as a catalyst to improve community sport and physical activity.

While the fund is now available to applicants nationwide, Greater Manchester and Merseyside are among the four areas that have been selected for targeted investment to support people to get, having been identified as areas of underrepresentation inactivity figures.

If clubs click on the Sport England link, it will take them to their Places and Spaces page for more details.  Further funding may be available through the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Fund.