To allocate £50,000 Sport Strategy Funding in partnership with £50,000 allocated from the Public Health Improvement budget to collectively fund £100,000;
A)Agrees to fund the Active Travel Grant (£20,000)
B)Agrees to fund the Club Development Grant & Disability Sport (£30,000)
C)Agrees to fund the Early Years Children and Families Grant (£20,000)
D)Agrees to fund Food & Nutrition for Families (£30,000)

The grant funding opportunities have been allocated to deliver on the strategic action plan of the ‘Sport and Activity Strategy’ (A6 Appendix A - Sport and Activity Strategy 2024 - 2028.pdf). The funds allocated in this decision reflect the second-year release of funding programmes/opportunities.
On the 20th September 2024, Cabinet allocated £122,540 to deliver the Sport and Activity Strategy (Decision - Cabinet Members' Items - Report of the Leisure and Public Realm Portfolio Holder - A.6 - Sport and Activity Strategy for Tendring).
Under decision (c) - the Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Public Realm be authorised to prioritise the key actions from the Sport and Activity Strategy and the subsequent allocation of the approved Sport and Activity Strategy budget.
For Year 2 of Sport Strategy Funding, £50,000 has been allocated (Microsoft Word - A1 Report - Financial Outturn 2025-26) (Recommendation (e)) to support the extension to the existing local sports grant schemes and authorises the Corporate Director (Place and Wellbeing), in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Public Realm, to implement the necessary associated arrangements;
The grant is designed to deliver the following outcomes, which are set out in the Sport and Physical Activity Strategy:
•Support Improvement to Tendring wide health outcomes
•Improve quality of life for all local people
•Long term sustainability & quality of sports facilities and wider community offer
These funds will also deliver on the strategic objectives set out in the Tendring Health and Wellbeing Strategy. The Tendring Health and Wellbeing Strategy was adopted following a Portfolio Holder Decision on 26th September 2025. Decision - Report of the Portfolio Holder for Partnerships - A.5 - Adoption of a Health & Wellbeing Strategy for Tendring.
This decision approved the strategy and authorised the Portfolio Holder for Partnerships to accept and to allocate Essex County Council’s Public Health Improvement funding to support the delivery of objectives of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
The Tendring Health and Wellbeing strategic priorities are:
•Addressing the wider determinants of health
•Improving wellbeing and resilience
•Encouraging a healthier lifestyle

Not to launch an open call grant scheme and reducing opportunities for local grassroots clubs and community groups.
To give the funding to alternative projects, however, an open and transparent scoring process would still need to be considered.