All grants, financial aid and subsides
The Barcelona Sports Institute aims to ensure that everyone has access to sport, under the firm belief that sport and physical activity are essential tools for transmitting positive values and that they are often the best way to promote social cohesion in our society.
The aim is to facilitate this access to everyone and, above all, to those people who most need it and who may encounter the greatest difficulties. For that reason, various grant and subsidy campaigns are launched, in order to help city residents and make it easier for them to do sport, particularly for specific groups of people, as well as city organisations. All the grants and subsidies that are available to city residents are detailed below
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Discount rates at Municipal Sports Centres
Barcelona City Council has taken steps establish discounts on membership fees in all Municipal Sports Centres (CEM in Catalan) for people with disabilities. This rate is approximately 43% lower than the standard membership fees for those centres. This proposal for social fees for members with disabilities under the age of 60 who are Targeta Rosa card holders is the result of a joint reflection process undertaken by the Barcelona Institute of Sports and the Municipal Institute of People with Disabilities.
Changing Room Assistant in Municipal Sports Centres
Through its management organisations, Barcelona City Council offers people with disabilities a support service for Municipal Sports Centre changing rooms. This support is for moving around the facility, providing help in changing rooms and for gaining access to the area where the sport or physical activity takes place. -
General call for grants for district and city projects, activities and services
The Barcelona City Council approves each year the general call for grants for district and city projects, activities and services.
Through this call, financial support is provided to projects promoting minority sports, health promotion initiatives, projects supporting women’s sport, initiatives specifically encouraging the participation of people with disabilities, as well as international sports competitions, sporting events of public interest and the Barcelona City Trophies.
Advice and training through the Oficina de l’Esport de Barcelona
The office provides information, advice and training in labour, accounting, legal and economic matters.
It also offers support in areas such as gender perspective, interculturality, accessibility and inclusion of people with disabilities, communication, technological innovation, inclusive language, protocols for the prevention of and response to abuse and sexual abuse in sport, as well as assistance with administrative procedures, calls, grants and tax obligations of organisations, digital tools, electronic processing, project development and justification, and the preparation of event reports.
Accreditation
The accreditation procedure for organisations that run sports activities aimed at children and young people of school age seeks to ensure a high-quality, safe, inclusive sports offer aligned with the educational values of the city.
Accredited organisations receive support from the Institut Barcelona Esports in the promotion of activities, ongoing training, grants to hire support staff, and a digital application designed for the creation, planning and management of tasks and training sessions.