Every week your club generates wellbeing value, saves health services money, and turns volunteer hours into something the community depends on. Most clubs have no idea what that's worth — and that's why they're missing out on funding they should be getting. Proof of Play puts a number on it, in the language funders, local authorities and commissioners use to make decisions. Whether you've applied for funding before or never thought you could — your number changes the conversation.
Proof of Play applies published proxy values from HM Treasury's WELLBY framework and Sport England's 2023/24 Social Value Model to your club's own data. Every source is named and every assumption is documented. The full methodology is publicly available.
Figures are evidence-informed estimates — not independently audited. Present them as such and pair with your own local qualitative evidence for the strongest impact.
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Sport England, the Football Foundation, Barclays, the National Lottery — they all want community impact evidence. Not a paragraph about what you do. Numbers. Your report gives you exactly that.
Local authorities are cutting budgets. A club that can show £1.31M in community social value is having a different conversation to a club that says "we've been here forty years." Both can be true. Only one saves the lease.
Businesses increasingly need to show social return on their community investment. A club with a social value ratio and health savings estimate gives a sponsor something to put in their ESG reporting. That changes the conversation.
Tell your members, your committee, your volunteers what their club is actually worth. The collective effort of 157 volunteers contributing £764K in economic value is a different conversation to the usual AGM report.
"Local club generates £1.31M in community value" is a story. A press release built around a credible number gets picked up. Generic club news doesn't.
Accreditation, welfare submissions, NGB development programmes — your report gives you structured, evidence-backed data you can draw on across all of these, whatever sport you play.
Your report takes ten minutes. These funding pots are open now and require community impact evidence to apply. Don't submit another application without your numbers.
Once your social value report is built, your club's profile flows straight into The Funding Bench — our matching engine for live grants. Same answers, no re-entry. We rank every grant your club is eligible for, filter by your sport, postcode, legal structure and demographic focus, flag match-funding requirements upfront, and email you when new ones open. About two extra minutes after Proof of Play.
Free · ~10 minutes · Your matched grants list unlocks at the end
Contact your County FA, Active Partnership or NGB and ask if they have Proof of Play. If they do, they'll share your access link directly. If they don't, get in touch and we'll help.