Privacy statement

Introduction

Like all organisations who collect and use personal data, Sport England is subject to the requirements set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’). Our privacy statement explains how Sport England collects, uses and looks after personal data. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person. This definition of this may be found in the Data Protection Act 2018.

We have robust policies and procedures in place, including a Data Protection Policy and File Retention Schedule. We have also adopted a ‘Privacy by Design’ approach across the organisation and this helps to ensure that we consider the privacy implications of all our projects, IT systems, and day-to-day work. In addition, Sport England has an appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee our approach to data protection and privacy. Our DPO can be contacted by emailing dpo@sportengland.org.

The data protection principles

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The GDPR includes six principles that organisations must apply when they collect and use personal data. These principles are:

Personal data must be processed in a manner which is lawful, fair and transparent. This means that when we collect and use personal information we must have a lawful basis for doing so, we must consider the rights and interests of the person the data is about, and provide clear information about our use of the data.

Personal data must be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not used in any ways which are incompatible with those purposes. When we collect personal data we must be very clear about why we need it and what we'll do with it. If we collect personal data for one purpose may not use it for an unconnected purpose.

Personal data we collect must be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is used. This means must make sure that we only collect and use personal data that is strictly necessary for our stated purpose or purposes.

Personal data must be accurate, and where necessary, kept up to date. We are required to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal data held is correct and kept up to date. This means that from time to time, we'll review the personal data we hold and we may contact you to make sure the personal data we have about you is current and does not contain any errors.

Personal data must be kept in a format which allows identification for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is used. In some cases, it may only necessary for us to be able to directly identify an individual for a short period of time. When we no longer need to be able to identify an individual we will anonymise the personal data. Where personal data is anonymised and the data subject in no longer identifiable that data will cease to be personal data.

Personal data must be used in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the data. This means that our policies, procedures, systems and working practices must ensure that personal data is protected from unlawful access and is kept secure at all times.

Lawful basis

Before we collect and use personal data, Sport England must be able to demonstrate that there is a lawful basis for us to do so. GDPR provides six lawful bases for processing personal data:

Consent: when you have explicitly told us that we may collect and use your personal data – for example by asking us to add you to one of our mailing lists.
Contract: when we need to collect and use personal data to enter into or perform a contract – for example if you receive funding from us.
Legal obligation – when we need to collect and use personal data to carry out our legal duties – for example to respond to a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Vital interests: when we need to collect and use personal data to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another person – for example by contacting the relevant authorities if we believe an individual is likely to come to immediate harm.
Public task: when we need to collect and use personal data to carry out one of our official tasks, or a task that's in the public interest – for example when we carry out surveys about sports participation to create official statistics.
Legitimate interests: when we need to collect and use personal data to pursue the legitimate interests of Sport England or a third party, unless doing so would interfere with your rights and freedoms – for example when we're dealing with complaints about an organisation we have funded.

Our lawful basis for collecting and using personal data varies depending on why we have collected it and what we'll do with it. Whenever Sport England collects personal data directly from you we aim to set out our lawful basis as clearly as we can using pop-up messages, or links to the information you need. If we receive personal data about you from a third party, we'll use reasonable efforts to identify our lawful basis and to inform you of this where it's possible and practical for us to do so.

Why we need to collect personal data

Sport England collects and uses personal data for a variety of purposes including:

Staff selection and recruitment
Grant application submission and assessment
Grant monitoring and evaluation
Research into physical activity
Responding to correspondence from members of the public
Managing requests to be added to a Sport England mailing list
Complying with regulatory and financial requirements
Promoting and encouraging participation in sport and physical activity.

When we collect personal data directly from you, we'll provide specific and detailed information about why we need to do so.

About the personal data we collect and use

Sport England collects a range of personal data including:

Names and contact details (including postal and email addresses and telephone numbers)
Biographical information such as participation in sport, membership of sports clubs and interest in, or opinions.
Information about ethnicity, sexual orientation, health related data or other special category personal data where it's necessary and relevant for a specific purpose
Photographs, including for publicity or promotional purposes.

When we collect and use personal data directly from you, we aim to provide specific and detailed information about the categories of personal data involved.

Collecting personal data about children

We do not knowingly collect personal data about children under the age of 13. If you become aware that a child has provided us with their personal data without the consent of the parent or guardian we would ask you to contact our Data Protection Officer straightaway so that we can address the matter.

How we share personal data

Relevant Sport England colleagues, suppliers and subcontractors will have access to your personal data for the purpose(s) it was collected for. When suppliers and subcontractors have access to your personal data, Sport England will still be responsible for decisions about how your personal data is used.

In some cases, where there is a lawful basis for us to do so we may share personal data with third parties such as the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, external auditors, the Information Commissioner’s Office, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman or other trusted partners, including NGBs and funded organisations. Where possible we'll tell you if your personal data will be shared, and the third parties the data be shared with, at the time we collect your personal data.

If we're required by law to disclose personal data we will do so, in keeping with our obligations.

We do not routinely transfer personal data outside to any third countries outside the European Economic Area (or ‘EEA’). However, if you've asked us to send you one of our newsletters, we use a third party to administer the mailouts. This third party is currently based in the USA.

Sport England never sells personal data to third parties for any purpose, and we do not collect or compile personal data for dissemination to third parties for marketing purposes.

How we look after your personal data

We have a number of ICT and Information Governance procedures in place which set out the technical and organisational measures we take when collecting and using personal data. If you'd like to find out more about these policies and procedures please contact our Data Protection Officer.

Personal data is held securely within Sport England’s IT environment, or in our trusted third-party hosting providers’ secure systems. Where personal data is held on third party hosting providers’ secure systems, it's stored according to our instructions and in accordance with the contracts we have in place.

How long we keep personal data

All the personal data that we collect and hold is kept in accordance with our File Retention Schedule. This Schedule is guided by the legislative and regulatory frameworks we are subject to and helps us to ensure that we do not keep personal data for longer than is necessary for the purpose(s) it was collected for.

Your rights

The GDPR gives individuals a number of rights in relation to any personal data an organisation holds about them and it is Sport England’s policy to make it as easy as possible for people to exercise these rights.

Subject access

Under GDPR all individuals are entitled to be told what personal data an organisation holds about them, and to receive copies of that information, free of charge, within one month.

You can make a subject access request to Sport England by contacting the Information Governance Manager:

dpo@sportengland.org

Rectification and erasure

If you believe that Sport England is holding inaccurate information about you, you're entitled to ask us to rectify that data. In addition, if you believe that Sport England no longer has a lawful basis to use your personal data, you can ask us to delete it.

The right to rectification and erasure is not absolute, but we will consider any requests carefully and comply with such requests where it's appropriate for us to do so. You can ask to have your personal data rectified or erased by contacting the Information Governance Manager:

dpo@sportengland.org

Withdrawing consent

If our lawful basis for collecting and using your personal data was consent, then you're entitled to withdraw that consent at any time. You do not need to give a reason for withdrawing your consent and we are required to comply promptly. You can inform us that you wish to withdraw consent by contacting the information Governance Manager:

dpo@sportengland.org

Complaints

If you're in any way dissatisfied with the way we have handled your personal data, Sport England provides a Complaints Procedure, which can be found towards the bottom of this page.

In addition, regardless of whether you make a complaint under our Procedure you're entitled to lodge a complaint about our data handling practices with the Information Commissioner by writing to:

The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

www.ico.org.uk

Changes to our privacy statement

We keep our approach to privacy under close review, and this means we may update our privacy statement from time to time. Updates to the privacy statement are published on our website.

Be Inspired privacy statement

Sport England is a public body that works to encourage as many people as possible to become and remain physically active. SportPark, 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF.

Like all other organisations who collect and use personal data we are subject to the requirements set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We take our responsibility to look after personal data seriously and we ensure that respecting privacy is at the heart of all we do.

Sport England has an appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee our approach to data protection and privacy. Our DPO can be contacted by emailing:

dpo@sportengland.org

London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games

In 2013 Sport England, in partnership with UK Sport and London & Partners, acquired the London 2012 database from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG). At this time, personal data was transferred to Sport England free of charge to help us build a London 2012 legacy for sport, volunteering and culture.

Sport England is the data controller for personal data transferred from LOCOG
Why we need to collect your personal data

1. If you signed up to receive the newsletter via the Be Inspired website

You have told us that you would like us to send you our regular Be Inspired Newsletter and we have a legitimate interest in making sure your request is fulfilled. Our lawful basis for collecting and using your personal data under Article 6 of the GDPR is therefore ‘legitimate interest’

2. If your data was transferred to Sport England by LOCOG

When LOCOG collected your personal data you consented to receiving updates and marketing about London 2012 and the legacy of London 2012. Our lawful basis for collecting your personal data under Article 6 of the GDPR is therefore ‘consent’

3. If you opted to receive the newsletter when purchasing tickets for a national sporting event (for example the Rugby World Cup)

When you purchased tickets for a national sporting event you consented to receiving a copy of the Be Inspired newsletter. Our lawful basis for collecting your personal data under Article 6 of the GDPR is therefore ‘consent’
What personal data we will collect and how we will use it
We collect and use the following personal data about you:
- Your email address, when you sign up or give consent to receive the newsletter
- Your postcode, when you sign up or give consent to receive the newsletter
- Your date of birth when you sign up or give consent to receive the newsletter
- Information about the way you interact with the content in the newsletters we send you.
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Personal acquired directly from LOCOG includes:
- Name
- Email address
- Postal address
- Telephone number
- Age range or date of birth
- Special categories of personal data (ethnicity, disability and gender)
Please be assured that data transfer did not include any credit card or other financial details as this information was not stored by LOCOG.

We will use your personal data in order to send Be Inspired newsletters, to analyse the way you interact with Be Inspired newsletters, and to ensure that we send you relevant and interesting content. We will also use your personal data for the purposes of administering your account, providing service updates, and responding to any queries you raise.

We will carry out limited, anonymised profiling of the personal data in the Be Inspired database, by carrying out automated analysis of your postcode (to send you location specific content), your gender or age range (to deliver targeted content and your interaction with newsletter content (to determine the types of content most relevant to you).
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Who we will share it with

Your personal data will be made available to relevant Sport England colleagues for the purposes of administering the newsletter, currently a small number of people within our Editorial and Content Team. It is held securely and is not be made available more widely than is necessary.
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Your personal data will be shared with a third party who administer our mailing lists and send newsletters on our behalf. We will not share your personal data with any other third parties and promise not to sell it, use it for commercial purposes or bombard you with irrelevant content.

You should be aware that we will transfer your data to a third country outside the EEA. Your data will be processed in the UK, other countries in the EEA and the USA by the company who send newsletters on our behalf, currently Zeta Global.

You should also be aware that we will disclose personal data to third parties if we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, regulation, court order or any competent government, statutory or public authority.
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How long we will keep it

We will keep your data for the lifetime of the Be Inspired newsletter, unless you tell us you don’t want to receive it any more.
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You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of every email. You can also email beinspired@sportengland.org or our Data Protection Officer via dpo@sportengland.org and we’ll will make sure you don’t hear from us again.
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Your rights

Under the GDPR you are entitled to access your personal data by making a subject access request to the DPO at the contact details provided above. You can also to ask us to rectify any mistakes in your personal data and, in some circumstances, to have it erased.
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If you are concerned about our handling of your personal data you should contact our Data Protection Officer to make a complaint. You are also entitled to lodge a complaint about our handling of your personal data with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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The Movement Fund Privacy Statement

About the Movement Fund

In 2021 Sport England launched its Uniting the Movement Strategy. Our focus is to support projects that match our goal of getting more people active, reducing the number of inactive people, and tackling inequalities.

The fund will support these aims by offering investment in eligible projects by way of grants or matching crowdfunding pledges of up to £15,000.00 as well as other resources to improve physical activity opportunities for the people and communities who need it the most.

About Sport England

As Sport England is a Public Body and a registered data controller, we must comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 (“the Act”).

We are committed to protecting your privacy and will ensure any personal information you provide is handled properly under the Act.

Type of personal data

We'll collect the following personal data from your representatives when you communicate with us about, apply to and participate in the Fund. The personal data we process will include:

Your representatives’ first and last name and email address,
Your representatives’ role and the address of your organisation,
Other business and operational data if such data is held in the name of private individuals,
If you submit photographs showing identifiable persons then face, gender and special category data comprising of race and ethnicity, possible health detail and religious data may also be processed,
If you submit video recordings at any stage of the process showing identifiable persons then face, gender, voice, and special category data comprising of race and ethnicity, possible health detail and religious data may also be processed,
Anti-fraud check results linked to you.

Our lawful basis for processing any personal data you provide is our public task.

Our lawful basis for processing any special category data you provide is explicit consent of the person whose special category data is being shared, the consent should be provided at the time of obtaining any special category data from that party and should be made available to Sport England on request.

Audio, visual or audio-visual personal data

Wherever you provide audio, visual or audio-visual material to Sport England or Crowdfunder for the purposes of the fund you must ensure that if any personal data belonging to a third-party is captured you had the necessary permission to obtain and then share such personal data and permit any additional use proposed by Sport England.

For more information about the effective use of pictures or videos in project journeys please refer to our helpful handout.

Purpose

We will use the information you give us in any communications, the application form and in supporting documents for:

Communicating with you when you contact us about the Fund,
Assessing your application and post project completion,
Evaluating your experience of applying to the Fund,
Administering and monitoring the delivery of any award you receive,
Evaluating the way our funding program works and the impact and effect it may have,
Complete and publish case studies relating to your participation in the Fund,
Publication in newspapers, externally shared documents, digital and social media platforms
Reporting on statistics or performance to the Government,
Conducting anti-fraud checks
Carrying out any other regulatory functions which may include your data,
Obtaining support or advice from approved suppliers or advisors
Sharing information with other government funding entities,
Contacting you about other matters related to other Movement Fund activities, participants or stakeholders,
Sharing information with other Movement Fund stakeholders and
Responding to any regulatory, legislative or other requests made by you, other third parties or regulators to ensure compliance with our legal obligations.

Who processes your data?

In processing your personal data to deliver the services Sport England is data controller. Where an application is submitted by an entity (you) that entity is also data controller for the information they provide.

Both Sport England and you are considered independent data controllers and so if you have any concerns about how we process personal data please communicate with us before providing any personal data.

Additionally, Sport England uses an authorised processor to provide services for this funding program. The appointed processor is Crowdfunder Limited, who has been engaged by Sport England to provide crowdfunding campaign support for you to match any crowdfunding award offer that may be made to you under the Fund.

Crowdfunder will share any data provided by you for a Fund application made on their site to Sport England to be processed according to the terms of this privacy statement.

Crowdfunder will process your personal data in their own capacity as an independent data controller when you sign up to their website terms and conditions.

Whenever you provide personal data using the Crowdfunder website you will also be subject to the terms and conditions of Crowdfunder’s privacy notice.

We use a third-party application Microsoft Forms provided by Office 365 to conduct surveys we may ask you to participate in.

When we do so the processing of any personal data you provide will be based on this privacy statement.

Data sharing

We may also give copies of this information to individuals and organisations such as:

Accountants, auditors and external evaluators,
Other organisations or groups involved in delivering the project,
Other lottery distributors, government departments,
Other organisations and individuals with a legitimate interest in lottery applications and grants,
Other organisations for the prevention and detection of fraud,
Our contractors, suppliers, processors or agents who may be engaged by us to provide support services to enable us to fulfil the purposes set out above.

Data retention

We shall retain the personal data provided by you in accordance with the terms of our file retention schedule based on the categories outlined below:

Successful revenue applications – 6 years
Successful capital applications – 12 years
Unsuccessful application – 2 years
Withdrawn applications – 1 year

Data storage and restricted transfers

We store any personal data within the UK or EEA. Your personal data will be processed in the EU and our lawful basis for processing your data outside of the UK is adequacy of that jurisdiction’s regime according to legal ruling.

For further information on Sport England’s data processing please see our general privacy statement, which can be seen above.

Data subjects' rights

Any person whose personal data is provided and processed through this Fund has the following rights:

To be informed about the processing of your data
To have access to your personal data
To have your personal data rectified,
To have your personal data erased
To object to processing

If you have any questions in relation to the processing of your personal data you may contact the Sport England Data Protection Officer at DPO@sportengland.org.

If you have any complaints about Sport England’s handling of your personal data you may contact the ICO:

The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane 
Wilmslow
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF 

Movement stakeholders privacy statement

We take our responsibility to look after personal data very seriously and we ensure that respecting privacy is at the heart of all we do.

You may have received emails because you may have worked with us in the past, signed up for a newsletter or expressed an interest in hearing from us about our strategy, Uniting the Movement, now and in future.

As such, we believe that you’d be interested in the progress of Sport England’s work, expertise and evidence to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity.

But we always want to be sure you want to hear from us and understand your privacy rights as outlined below. These follow the principles established in Sport England’s privacy statement at the top of this page.

Your privacy rights
- Sport England will be the data controller of your personal data.
- The only personal data we will process to communicate with you is your first and last name, email address, organization name and role.
- Our basis for processing your data is our public task.
- We will only use it to communicate with you from time to time about the progress of Sport England’s work, expertise and evidence to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity
- We will not share your data with any other third parties nor will we store it outside of the UK or the EU.
You can unsubscribe

You have the right to access your information, rectify, erase, restrict or object to processing at any time.

If you no longer wish to receive future emails about corporate news, research, announcements and other similar communication from Sport England, please let us know by clicking here to unsubscribe from our list of movement stakeholders.
Changes to this privacy statement

We keep our approach to privacy under close review, and this means we may update our privacy statement from time to time. Updates to the privacy statement will be published on this page of our website.

Newsletter data privacy information

Sport England is a public body that works to encourage as many people as possible to become and remain physically active. Our head office is based at 21b Bloomsbury Street London, WC1B 3HF. As part of this work we produce a regular newsletter, The Latest from the Pitch.

Like all other organisations who collect and use personal data we are subject to the requirements set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We take our responsibility to look after personal data very seriously and we ensure that respecting privacy is at the heart of all we do.

Sport England has an appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee our approach to data protection and privacy. Our DPO can be contacted by emailing:

dpo@sportengland.org

Why we need to collect your personal data

We need to collect your personal data in order to complete your request to receive our regular Latest from the Pitch Newsletter.
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You have told us that you would like us to send you our regular Latest from the Pitch Newsletter, and we have a legitimate interest in making sure your request is fulfilled. Our lawful basis for collecting your personal data under Article 6 of the GDPR is therefore ‘legitimate interest’
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What personal data we will collect and how we will use it

We will collect the following personal data about you:
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Your email address, when you sign up to receive the newsletter

Information about the way you interact with the content in the newsletters we send you.
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Who we’ll share it with

Your personal data will be made available to relevant Sport England colleagues for the purposes of sending you the newsletter. It will be held securely and we will not make it available more widely than is necessary.
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Your personal data will be shared with third parties who manage the Sport England website on our behalf, and third parties who administer our mailing lists, and send newsletters on our behalf. We will not share your personal data with any other third parties and promise not to sell it, use it for commercial purposes or bombard you with irrelevant content.

You should be aware that we may transfer your data to third country outside the EEA, where model clauses are in place to allow such transfers. Your data will be processed in the UK, other countries in the EEA and the USA.

We will disclose personal data to third parties if we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, regulation, court order or any competent government, statutory or public authority.
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How long we will keep it

We will keep your data for the lifetime of the Latest from the Pitch newsletter, unless you tell us you don’t want to receive it any more.
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You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of every email. You can also email our Data Protection Officer via dpo@sportengland.org and we will make sure you don’t hear from us again.
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Your rights

Under the GDPR you are entitled to access your personal data by making a subject access request to the DPO at the contact details provided above.
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You are also entitled to ask us to rectify any mistakes in your personal data and, in some circumstances, to have it erased

You are also entitled to lodge a complaint about our handling of your personal data with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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Place expansion project privacy statement

Updated 16 December 2025

Introduction and purpose

The English Sports Council (Sport England) is a non-departmental public body tasked by law with increasing participation in sport and physical activity in England. In January 2021, Sport England launched its 10-year strategy called Uniting the Movement (the Strategy), through which it intends to work with all stakeholders and participants in the sport sector to tackle access inequalities and provide opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind, while helping to remove the barriers to sport and physical activity participation.

In 2018, Sport England developed a new approach to funding which relies on place-based work with the intention of increasing our and our stakeholders' ability to create the conditions for change in people’s sport and physical activity participation at a local level.

To further the aims of place-based working, Sport England has developed an overall Place Expansion Project, which will have numerous strands as we engage with multiple stakeholders. During this project, we will be processing personal data relating to you in several different way and for different reasons.

Under UK GDPR law, whenever your personal data is being processed you must be told what personal data will be processed, who will process it, how they will do so and the responsibilities they have to you and to the law. This privacy notice sets your rights and out how this processing will be done compliantly.

Who are the data subjects?

Anyone who receives and completes any of our surveys, registers or attends any of our events or participates in any of our interviews, provides material or information for case studies, provides their information for participation in or communication relating to this Project will be a data subject, whether they are Sport England staff, Sport England supplier staff or members of funded or other organisations and stakeholders or members of the public.

Children

Any person below the age of 18 is considered a child. We do not knowingly provide services for children, nor do we process their personal data. If we find that we have obtained personal data for any person below the age of 18 we will delete that data immediately.

Who will be processing your Personal Data (Data Controllers and Data Processors)

Sport England is the owner of the project and is an ICO registered data controller with registration number ZA208476. It is the data controller in relation to all the personal data collected from you which it uses in any way. Sport England will process the data you provide for this project in accordance with this privacy notice and its general privacy statement, which can be found here: https://www.sportengland.org/privacy-statement.

Sport England Authorised Supplier. Wherever Sport England engages a supplier to provide services which involve the collecting or use of your personal data in any way that Supplier will be an authorised data processor who is allowed to process your personal data.

Fund Receiving or Other Organisation. If your personal data is provided to Sport England by another organisation, that organisation will be responsible for providing you with information about how they manage your personal data. Sport England will only accept your personal data from that organisation if it shows it had a lawful basis to do so and under a data sharing agreement.

Social Media Platforms. If Sport England publishes any of your personal data, the respective social media platform will also be processing your personal data. The privacy notices for each platform will tell you how they also process your personal data independent of Sport England; accordingly Sport England will tell you whether it intends to publish information you provide on social media platforms at the time of collection.

Other Third-Party Applications. Sport England uses several cloud-based applications owned by other parties which it has licensed for business use; these are listed below. Each application licensor will be a processor of your data.

Your Personal and Special Category Data and Our Lawful Bases for Processing

Sport England or an authorised supplier on our behalf will be processing all or some of following personal data in relation to you: first and last name, email address, telephone number, organisation name and address, role, gender, age, image, voice, views, experience and opinions, dietary requirements.

Our lawful basis for processing your personal data is public task.

Sport England or an authorised supplier on our behalf may process the following special category data: race, ethnicity, health detail, possible religious orientation.

Sport England’s additional lawful basis for processing your special category data will be your explicit consent, which you will be asked to provide in writing in a different document or online process at the time when you are asked for that information.

How your personal data is processed and Purpose

We will use your personal data for a number of reasons and in a number of ways the information you give us in any communications, stories, case studies, investment submissions and supporting documents to enable us to:

create databases of participants and non-participants known as the community of learning or for other project joint working or communications
communicate with you
share learning, data, and insight information
deliver events, webinars, and workshops
registration for events
provide venue or other participation access/accessibility
create case studies, stories and other reference or resource materials for publication
publish on Sport England or other stakeholder social or traditional media platforms
share information on tools, resources, and publications to support place-based approaches to tackling inactivity, including:
- the production of case studies/stories relating to place-based work
- newsletters
- externally shared documents
- digital and social media platforms
request feedback on developing work and share information on our consultation opportunities
request insight and learning coming from place locations that you would like to share with the community of learning
share information on relevant training and development opportunities
administer and monitor the delivery of any award you receive
evaluate the way our funding works and the impact and effect it may have
report on statistics or performance to the Government
contact you about other matters related to other place-based work activities, participants or stakeholders
obtain advice from legal, compliance or advisory parties
comply with any regulatory or legal obligations.

Events, Webinars and Workshops

As part of our learning tools and resources, Sport England will organise and deliver a range of in-person and online events, workshops and webinars. These are designed to share learning with and among Place stakeholders about our place-based work.

When organising these events, we will run a registration process to enable us to manage numbers, understand who is attending and where relevant, confirm any dietary and/or accessibility requirements.

As part of the registration process for events, workshops and webinars, we will ask for the following information:

Name
Role
Age
Organisation representing
Email address
Dietary requirements
Accessibility requirements
Consent for sharing of contact details i.e. to produce delegate lists for events
Consent for taking photos for promotional purposes i.e. Sport England social media and website.

Any event delegate who does not give permission will not be included in any images used as part of the promotion purpose.

Audio/Audio-Video/Still Image Recording

Sport England or an authorised supplier on our behalf may process your personal data by recording your voice or image using audio or visual means. Before it does so you will be provided with a document or online process to provide your explicit consent for any recording and subsequent use and for any intellectual property rights in your image or voice.

If your voice or image was captured by another organisation and shared with Sport England, that other organisation shall be responsible for providing you with consent and intellectual property rights documents.

Data sharing

We may also give copies of information provided to us to individuals and organisations such as:

Accountants, auditors and external evaluators,
Other organisations or groups involved in delivering the project,
Other lottery distributors, government departments,
Other organisations and individuals with a legitimate interest in lottery applications and grants,
Other organisations for the prevention and detection of fraud,
Our contractors, suppliers, processors or agents who may be engaged by us to provide support services to enable us to fulfil the purposes set out above.

Storage, retention and deletion

Sport England will retain any personal data as part of its business records, which are kept for three years according to our File Retention Schedule.

Authorised Suppliers will only store your data for the duration of the contract period, after which it will be deleted no later than thirty days after the end of the contract.

Restricted Transfers

Smartsheet holds personal data in servers in the United States. Our lawful basis for transferring your personal data will be your consent, which will be requested when you are asked to use or add your information to any Sport England-controlled Smartsheet.

Microsoft Teams holds personal data in servers in the EU. Our lawful basis for transferring data to the EU is adequacy.

Applications

Sport England will use Microsoft Forms (for surveys) and Microsoft Teams for audio-visual recordings. These are known as third-party applications, meaning they are owned and operated by Microsoft but licensed for use by Sport England. This means when we use them in this project, we will be subject to the terms of this privacy notice but if you wish to have more information on Microsoft, you can find their privacy notice here.

Sport England will also use social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn to process your personal data.

Sport England relies on the third-party application Smartsheet as a cloud-based collaboration tool and database holder as a licensed Organizational user. Some of your personal data will be stored there and will be subject to the terms of this privacy policy and their own fair processing information, which can be found here.

Data subjects' rights

Any person whose personal data is provided and processed through the place-based work has the following rights:

To be informed about the processing of your data
To have access to your personal data
To have your personal data rectified
To have your personal data erased
To object to processing
To withdraw your consent.

If you wish to make a data subject rights request, you may use our Webform to access our OneTrust Privacy Portal or send an email to us at DPO@sportengland.org.

If you have any questions in relation to the processing of your personal data, you may contact the Sport England Data Protection Officer at DPO@sportengland.org.

If you have any complaints about Sport England’s handling of your personal data, you may use our internal Complaints Procedure, which can be found here.

Additionally, to lodge a complaint about the handling of your personal data, or your rights request, contact the Information Commissioner’s Office:

The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane 
Wilmslow
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF 

This privacy notice will be published on the Sport England website and may be changed based on changes to the law or organisational requirements. Please check back on the website for any updates to this policy from time to time.

Planning Information System (PIMS) privacy statement

18 June 2024

Welcome to The English Sports Council ("Sport England's") Planning Information System’s privacy statement.

Important information about us

Sport England has a specific role in the planning system, acting as a statutory consultee on planning applications for development affecting or prejudicing the use of playing fields and as a non-statutory consultee on certain other planning applications that may have implications on sport. Sport England also provides strategic planning responses and support to local planning authorities through the development plan process. The team also respond to a variety of planning enquiries from a range of stakeholders. We use an internal Planning Information System (PIMS) to manage the administration of this consulting role.

Purpose of this privacy statement

Our PIMs processes personal data; therefore Sport England is obliged to ensure your privacy is protected and to process your personal data in accordance with applicable privacy laws, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018.

We will only collect and use your personal data in accordance with this privacy statement.

Please read this privacy statement carefully. We recommend that you maintain a copy of it for your future reference.

Controller

Sport England is the data controller and responsible for the compliant processing of your personal data when you interact with us. Unless otherwise noted, the terms "Sport England", "we", "us" or "our" on this page refer to the English Sports Council.

Lawful basis

Under data protection law we must rely on a lawful basis for the processing of your personal data. Different types of personal data require different legal bases; for your personal data the lawful basis is public task.

Contact details

We have an appointed Data Protection Officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy statement. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, including any requests to exercise your data privacy rights, please contact the DPO using the details set out below.

Full name of legal entity: The English Sports Council

Email address: DPO@sportengland.org

Postal address: SportPark, 1st Floor, 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF

Processor(s)

Where we engage or use other parties who may process your personal data provided under use of the Site, those parties must be identified as data processors and you must be provided with information relating to them.

Arcus Global Limited is our authorised data processor, and they are contracted by us to provide the PIMS database development and management services. Their privacy notice can be found here.
Arcus Global Limited utilise Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Conga platforms as sub-processors for this service.

The personal data that we collect from you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We collect, use, and store different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity data

first name
last name
job title
gender prefix
role and organisation name

Contact data

email address
telephone number
address provided
email correspondence which may include additional personal data

What we do with your information

Sport England and our processor and sub-processors, who host the PIMS, collect, store and process your personal data for the following reasons:

to carry out our duties as a statutory consultee for planning matters;
for our internal record-keeping requirements, including collection of anonymised details about visitors to the Site to compile aggregate statistics or produce internal reports;
for analysis, testing, monitoring, risk management and administrative purposes;
to respond to any queries, concerns, complaints or communication you make to us; and
to comply with the requests of any legal authority or regulatory entity.

Except as set out in this privacy statement, or unless permitted by applicable law, we will not disclose, sell, distribute, rent or lease your personal data to third parties unless we have your permission or are required to do so to comply with applicable law or an order of a governmental or law enforcement body.

International transfers of data

The Site is hosted on Arcus Global Limited Online within the UK. Arcus Global Limited utilise Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Conga platforms as sub-processors for this service. There is not any restricted transfer of personal data.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your personal data is secure. To minimise the risk that there is unauthorised access to or disclosure of your personal data, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure it (such as internet standard encryption technology to encode personal data that you send to us when conducting a transaction through the Site).

In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data retention

We will retain your personal data according to the terms of our File Retention Schedule, which can be made available on request. We retain different types of information for the following periods:

For pre-application advice, four years from the point of initial consultation, or if a planning application subsequently submitted and permission granted, four years from the decision date.
For planning applications, four years since the date of the planning decision, unless relevant discharges of conditions which Sport England should be consulted on are outstanding.
Complaints - 6 years
Litigation 6-12 years

Your legal rights

You have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

You have the right to:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which overrides your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
- If you want us to establish the data's accuracy.
- Where our use of the data is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase it.
- Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
- You have objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide you, or a third party you have chosen, with your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided with your consent for us to use or where we used the information to carry out a contract with you.

You may exercise your rights over the personal data that we hold about you by contacting us using the details provided above.

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Complaints

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues as detailed below. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

If you're in any way dissatisfied with the way we have handled your personal data, Sport England provides a Complaints Procedure.

In addition, regardless of whether you make a complaint under our Procedure you're entitled to lodge a complaint about our data handling practices with the Information Commissioner by writing to:

The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

www.ico.org.uk

Changes to the privacy policy and our duty to inform you of changes

We may change and update this privacy statement from time to time and we recommend that you revisit this page regularly to keep informed on the current privacy statement and ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Data subject rights request privacy statement

15 May 2025

Introduction and purpose

The English Sports Council (Sport England) is a non-departmental public body tasked by law with increasing participation in sport and physical activity in England. Sport England is an ICO registered data controller with registration number ZA208476. During our business operations we will come into control of personal data which we must manage in accordance with UK GDPR.

As a registered data controller, we are required to manage personal data safely and respond to any data subject rights request made by any person whose personal data we hold. This privacy statement tells you how we process personal data to manage your data, your data rights and any request that you make.

How to make a request

You can submit a data subject rights request to us by clicking this OneTrust Webform to access our OneTrust Privacy Portal.

You may also make a data subject rights request using any Sport England communication system, including email or social media.

Personal data we process when you make a request

We or our appointed suppliers, representatives or agents process your personal data for the purposes we told you at the time when your personal data was taken which includes the management of your data subject rights.

In processing your request, we will process your first name, last name, email address, country, your request, your relationship with us, identity verification, and other personal data you provide which you consider relevant to your request. If we hold personal data relating to you then we also process that data to comply with your request.

The OneTrust Privacy Portal will be used to communicate with you. You will be notified by a OneTrust email on any communications sent to you from us and provided with a unique access code to securely access the Privacy Portal to manage your request and respond to communications. More detail on how your personal data is processed within OneTrust can be found in the OneTrust Privacy Notice.

Lawful basis for processing

Public task: when we carry out one of our official tasks or a task that's in the public interest
Legal obligation: to comply with a legal obligation placed on us as a data controller.

Special category data

We will not ask you to provide any special category data when exercising a data subject rights request, although we may process such data in managing and responding to your request, e.g. for special category data that you have voluntarily submitted to us or otherwise obtained by us for the specific purposes stated at time of collection.

Your personal data – data subject rights

Your data subject rights:

Right to be informed
Right of access
Right of rectification
Right to erasure
Right to restrict processing
Right to data portability
Right to object
Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.

Management of your rights request

When you submit a request relating to any of these rights or if you think your rights have been breached, Sport England has one calendar month to progress or complete your matter. You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights.

Purpose for processing

Log and process your request
Verify your email and identity for your request
Communicate with you on your request
Comply with legal obligations
Sharing with regulators and legal advisers.

How long we keep your personal data

Personal data is held in line with Sport England’s File Retention Schedule.

We will continue to hold such personal data for you relating to the management of your data subject rights request for the sole purpose of satisfying regulatory and legislative obligations.

In accordance with the Limitations Act we will hold this data for six years.

Failure to provide personal information

If you contact us wishing to submit a data subject rights request and fail to provide certain personal information when required to do so, we will likely be unable to process your request.
We will inform you when you are required to provide information and the consequences of not doing so.

Contact and complaints

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or our privacy practices, please contact our DPO: DPO@sportengland.org

If you have any complaints about Sport England’s handling of your data subject rights, you may use our internal Complaints Procedure.

Additionally, to lodge a complaint about the handling of your personal data, or your rights request, contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk): Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Changes to our privacy notice

We reserve the right to update our privacy statement from time to time and will notify you of any changes.

We also have a general privacy statement.

Areas of research interest - data privacy notice for 18 years of age and over

20 May 2025

Introduction and purpose

The English Sports Council (Sport England) is a non-departmental public body tasked by law with increasing participation in sport and physical activity in England. In January 2021 Sport England launched its 10-year strategy called Uniting the Movement (the Strategy) through which it intends to work with all stakeholders and participants in the sport sector to tackle access inequalities and provide opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind, while helping to remove the barriers to sport and physical activity participation.

The Sport England Area of Research Interest are published online, both on the Sport England website and on the ari.org.uk platform. They highlight the existing evidence gaps and research priorities that have been identified across the sector.

We aim to build up a network of a wide range of stakeholders who are interested in supporting us to fill these evidence gaps. The evidence gathered will help to inform the development of strategy, practice and policy.

During this project we will be processing personal data relating to you in several different way and for different reasons. Under UK GDPR law, whenever your personal data is being processed you must be told what personal data will be processed, who will process it, how they will do so and the responsibilities they have to you and to the law. This privacy notice sets your rights out and how this processing will be done compliantly.

Who are the data subjects?

Anyone who receives and completes any of our surveys, registers or attends any of our events or participates in any of our interviews, provides material or information for case studies, will be a data subject, whether they are Sport England staff, Sport England supplier staff or members of funded or other organisations and stakeholders or members of the public.

Children

Any person below the age of 18 is considered a child. We do not knowingly provide services for children, nor do we knowingly process their personal data. If we find that we have obtained personal data for any person below the age of 18 we will delete that data immediately. If we are processing children’s personal data you can find an appropriate privacy notice on our website.

Who will be processing your personal data (data controllers and data processors)?

Sport England is the owner of the project and is an ICO registered data controller with registration number ZA208476. It is the data controller in relation to all the personal data collected from you which it uses in any way. Sport England will process the data you provide for this project in accordance with this privacy notice and its general privacy statement.

Other organisation

If your personal data is provided to Sport England by another organisation that organisation will be responsible for providing you with information about how they manage your personal data. Sport England will only accept your personal data from that organisation if it shows it had a lawful basis to do so and under a data sharing agreement.

Social media platforms or other third-party platforms

If Sport England publishes any of your personal data on any of our registered social media channels or on another third parties’ website, the respective social media platform or website owner will also be processing your personal data. The privacy notices for each platform or website will tell you how they also process your personal data independent of Sport England, accordingly Sport England will tell you whether it intends to publish information you provide on social media platforms at the time of collection.

Your personal data and lawful basis for processing

Sport England will be processing all or some of following personal data in relation to you: first and last name, email address, organisation name, role, professional expertise and interests. You may also wish to share with us a link to a professional profile to help demonstrate your professional interests and expertise, or research you’ve been involved in. If you do share this with us, we will therefore be able to access other personal data in relation to you.

Sport England’s lawful basis for processing your personal data is public task.

How your personal data is processed and purpose

Your personal data will be collected via Microsoft Forms, or via email or in person at an event, and we will use your personal data to:

create databases of participants and non-participants who are interested in engaging the Sport England Areas of Research Interest, known as the Sport England ARI Network
understand who is part of the Sport England ARI Network, and their interests/expertise in relation to the Areas of Research Interest
communicate with you
share learning, data, and insight information
organise and deliver events, including workshops and roundtable discussions (including registration for events, providing event and venue details, or other participation access/accessibility)
collaborate on new research in a way that is agreed with all parties involved
request feedback on developing work and share information on our consultation opportunities
request insight and learning that you would like to share with the ARI Network
share information on relevant training and development opportunities
contact you about relevant Sport England research briefs / tenders / grants
inform you of any other opportunities that you might be interested in, based on your response to the survey
evaluate the effectiveness of the ARI Network and the impact and effect it may have
update you on any developments to the Areas of Research Interest
contact you about other matters related to Sport England’s Areas of Research Interest
comply with any regulatory or legal obligations.

Events, webinars and workshops

As part of our management of the Sport England ARI Network, Sport England will organise and deliver a range of in person and on-line events, workshops and roundtable discussions. These will be designed to identify and discuss research priorities and share evidence and knowledge with and among Sport England stakeholders. When organising these events, we will run a registration process to enable us to manage numbers, understand who is attending and where relevant, confirm any dietary and/or accessibility requirements.

As part of the registration process for events, workshops and webinars, we will ask for the following information:

Name
Role
Organisation representing
Email address
Dietary requirements
Accessibility requirements
Consent for sharing of contact details i.e. to produce delegate lists for events
Consent for taking photos for promotional purposes i.e. Sport England social media and website.

Any event delegate who does not give permission will not be included in any images used as part of the promotion purpose.

Audio/audio-video/still image recording

Sport England may process your personal data by recording your voice or image using audio or visual means. Before it does so you will be provided with a document or online process to provide your explicit consent for any recording and subsequent use and for any intellectual property rights in your image or voice. If your voice or image was captured by another organisation and shared with Sport England that other organisation shall be responsible for providing you with consent and intellectual property rights documents.

Storage, retention and deletion

Sport England will retain any personal data as part of its business records which are kept for the duration outlined in our File Retention Schedule. After it is shared with Sport England, you will then be asked on an annual basis whether you wish Sport England to retain your personal data for a further 12 months. Sport England will store your personal data/special category data in securely on Sport England’s network in MS Forms and Excel format. Sport England will then delete your personal data/special category data. You can also contact us to withdraw or modify your consent and have your personal information deleted or updated at any time.

Restricted transfer

Sport England will not transfer your personal data outside of the UK.

Applications

Consent

You can also modify or withdraw your consent at any time, though you should be aware that depending on the nature of the processing done it may be impossible to stop processing e.g. publication on social media may mean a post is deleted but we cannot account for any downloads made before this is done.

Other data rights

Under data protection law, you have other rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights.

If you make a request, Sport England as data processors will have one calendar month to comply with your request.

If you wish to make a data subject rights request or have any questions on this statement or our privacy practices, please use our Webform on our Sport England website to access our OneTrust Privacy Portal or send an email to us at DPO@sportengland.org.

If you have any complaints about Sport England’s handling of your data subject rights you may use our internal Complaints Procedure.

Additionally, to lodge a complaint about the handling of your personal data, or your rights request contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk): The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

This privacy notice may be updated or amended from time to time, if that is done the updated version will be provided to you in the same way as the current version.