By playing the National Lottery, you're helping people across England play sport and get physically active. That's because two-thirds of our funding comes from the lottery. Thank you to everyone who has ever bought a ticket for supporting us in building a healthier, happier nation.
Code for Sports Governance revised
The strengthened Code - for bodies in receipt of substantial public funding from us or UK Sport - has an emphasis on ensuring organisations have greater ambitions to drive up further diversity and inclusion across all aspects of their work.
Coronavirus
Guidance and support for the return to play
Our coronavirus hub has advice, guidance and resources to help the sport and physical activity sector as almost all lockdown restrictions are removed.
As well as answers to common questions on the current rules, we've got return to play funds, research to help you support people back into activity, and much more.
Our strategy
Uniting the Movement is our 10-year vision to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity.
What we do
We award funding
We fund projects and organisations small and large that help people to get active.
We provide insight
Our insight will help you understand how different people can be supported to be active.
We gather data
We have a number of different tools you can use to explore activity levels across England.
We have expertise
Our expertise is not just for us, we share that knowledge to help you and people across the sector.
Sport England and the National Lottery
Engage your audience
Browse more topics
We have a wide selection of sport and physical activity images that are free for you to use, whether it’s for a brochure, banner, leaflet or report.
See our advice on designing high-quality facilities, as well as guidance on planning applications that impact sporting provision, and our playing fields policy.
Our Active Lives surveys measure the physical activity levels of adults and children and young people across England, providing a wealth of data.
