Funding for Sports Clubs

Dominic Goggins, Fiscal and Regulatory Officer at the Cental Council for Physical Recreation explains how local sports clubs have saved £millions by registering as Community Amateur Sports Clubs. 

In its current form, the benefits favour property-owning clubs. CCPR and the CASC Development Forum are working to persuade the Government to improve the scheme by allowing CASCs to claim Gift Aid on junior membership subscriptions through our Subs for Clubs campaign. This would fulfil the scheme’s potential by securing vital, sustainable funding for clubs in the years ahead.

With or without these improvements, the CASC scheme is a real asset for community sport and it is important that clubs are aware that this option is available to them.

Woodford Rugby Union Club is certainly grateful for it. A new pavilion built in 1994 left them £200,000 in debt, long before the ability to raise £45,000 through Gift Aid. They will now celebrate their 80th anniversary debt-free, which was unthinkable before the CASC scheme was created. Club representative David Shepherd glows about the scheme,: “It is simple to administer. Staff at the Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs are genuinely interested and helpful in dealing with queries and providing solutions…I would thoroughly recommend it to other clubs”.

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To find out more about the CASC scheme, and for information on how to register, please visit www.cascinfo.co.uk, the definitive
CASC resource.

Note: This article is reprinted from NAVCA Circulation