Launched in 2021, the Sports 4 Children Award is dedicated to improving children’s lives through the power of sport, supporting programmes that nurture wellbeing, build confidence, and open doors to brighter futures.
The Sport 4 Children Award is the Boustany Foundation’s first in-house initiative, launched in 2021 to champion the role of sport in early childhood development. It reflects the Foundation’s commitment to helping children live happy, healthy, productive, and meaningful lives.
We believe sport, especially in group settings, can be a powerful way to engage and inspire young children. It supports physical health while also strengthening mental and emotional wellbeing. Through sport, children learn teamwork, discipline, perseverance, and confidence, and they often experience reduced stress and a more positive mood.
Team play also helps children develop essential social skills for life. It teaches cooperation, listening, and consideration for others. Sport also encourages respect for structure and shared rules, helping children learn to follow guidance and accept decisions.
Organisations applying for the Sport 4 Children 2024 Award must:
The Boustany Foundation internal committee will select a shortlist of applications and choose the winner. Only candidates who have submitted all the necessary documents described in the How to Apply section will be considered. All information provided will be treated in the strictest confidence. The Boustany Foundation internal committee will be required to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements.
Applications for the Award will be judged on several factors, but principally:
Professionalism of the organisation:
The project’s focus on achieving Sport 4 Children’s objectives.
Impact on the community – the extent to which the project maximises impact on children’s mental and physical health.
Solutions to prevailing issues – does the project deliver genuine benefits for children?
The reach – how many children will benefit and how it can be measured.
Innovation – are new pathways proposed that extend subject matters; are there new initiatives that will excite children and achieve the Award’s goals?
Inclusion and social impact – the evidence of programmes or initiatives that have a social impact focus on inclusion and diversity.
Please check your eligibility and read the Terms and Conditions prior to applying. Applicants ang invited to submit a formal project proposal which
Any legal entity such as a governmental or non-governmental organisation, educational, cultural, or academic institution, foundation or social impact organisation can apply for the Award.
The amount of the funding given to the winner will be determined by the cost projections for the project submitted by the winning application. The Boustany Foundation reserves the right to pay out the funding in up to three separate payments over the course of the project’s development to completion. These three payments may, at the Boustany Foundation’s discretion, be issued in line with the project’s evolving expenses. Cost proposals for the project should work to a guideline cap of 50.000 Euros.
No, the winner undertakes to allocate the funds received (Award) from the Boustany Foundation to the exclusive financing of the selected project without being able to use these funds in any other way.
We will accept projects that exceed 50.000 Euros but the Foundation will only pay up to 50.000 Euros. The excess amount will be covered by the winner’s organisation.
You may nominate another person to collect the Award in your place.
