The Counselor of Culture and Sports, Patricia del Pozo, has informed the Parliament of Andalusia that this year grants totaling more than 8.1 million euros have been announced for Andalusian sports federations and entities, covering from high performance to grassroots sports. «With these calls, we collaborate with those who, day by day, encourage, stimulate, and support Andalusian athletes in their training and sports progress,» she pointed out.
The first of these lines of grants focuses on promoting sports by financially supporting expenses for the participation of Andalusian teams in official national competitions, non-professional and absolute category, at the maximum and submaximum levels. The call was published in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía (BOJA) on April 1st, and as Del Pozo mentioned, «the 133 received applications are already being studied and evaluated.»
These grants can benefit clubs, sections, and sports anonymous societies registered in the Andalusian Register of Sports Entities to cover the costs derived from the use of sports facilities for training and competition, registration in competitions, travel, accommodation and subsistence, arbitration, equipment and sports material, material repairs, medical services, and sports licenses. The amount allocated for this call amounts to 1.1 million euros.
This is joined by the subsidy call, published on March 27th in the BOJA, for the promotion of management, technification, and sports performance of Andalusian sports federations, with a budget of more than seven million euros. As the counselor explained, this is «a very important amount that we have maintained after having increased it by almost 23% since 2019,» and the 60 received applications are already being evaluated.
The beneficiaries of these grants, who are the Andalusian sports federations registered in the Andalusian Register of Sports Entities, may present as eligible expenses the organization of activities for school-age sports categories and absolute or lower categories that are above that age, the participation in these activities of athletes, technical staff, judges or referees, and the expenses for the management and operation of the federations.
In this way, the Andalusian Government supports the federations in the organization of championships in Andalusia and official competitions at the regional level, as well as national championships and competitions, official international competitions and Andalusian gatherings of selected athletes. Thus, Del Pozo commented, the Department of Culture and Sports aims to «help our athletes and contribute to the technification of training and the improvement of their sports performance.»
