Real impact on the ground, but no evidence to win the funding
The work was reaching young people, yet a competitive Sport England bid needed hard local evidence and a credible way to measure attendance, not just good intentions.
We shaped the Movement Fund application around a three-tier mentoring pathway for 11 to 16 year olds in Carshalton and Wallington, evidenced it with local inactivity and deprivation data, and backed it with a low-code attendance tool so outcomes could be tracked. An initial £3,250 was secured, then a further £11,610 top-up, £14,860 in total.