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April 29 Deadline Approaches for Community Sport and Recreation Grant

The deadline for the Ontario Sport Network (OSN) $7 million Emergency Relief Community Sport & Recreation Grant is fast approaching. If you are a community-level organization looking to reintroduce vital sports and recreation programming to your community, there is still time to submit your application to meet the deadline of April 29, 2022.

This financial relief program is part of the provincial government’s $30 million investment to stabilize various levels of Ontario’s sport and recreation sector. It is funded by the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism & Culture.

As part of the province’s pandemic recovery plan, the grant will aid in providing economic support through sport and recreational activities, imperative to the well-being of Ontario communities.

The fund goes beyond traditional provincial sport organizations. It targets grassroot clubs, teams, leagues and associations, including both for-profit and non-profit, whether that be a local dance club, lacrosse league, yoga studio or euchre team. The aim is to help eligible sport and recreation organizations and associations deal with financial hardships due to COVID-19.

To find out if your organization is eligible, there is a webinar planned for April 19, 2022 at 1:00 p.m.  You can register by clicking this link: https://www.ontariosportnetwork.ca/emergency-grant.

The webinar is recorded so if you can’t attend, you can watch the taped version by following the same link.

Applications will be evaluated by a review panel of four to six specialists within the community sport and recreation field to provide monetary grants to eligible organizations demonstrating financial need for recovery and possessing a programming plan to optimize the grant.

Grants can be used at the organization’s discretion to remedy operational costs linked to various challenges of the pandemic.

Applications can be found at www.ontariosportnetwork.ca/emergency-grant. They will be evaluated during the month of May with funding issued by June 15, 2022.

Yoga photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash
Lacrosse photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash

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