During the Sitting Volleyball month the Foundation offered an opportunity for volleyball clubs to apply for a grant to set up a sitting volleyball team in their club.

To be eligible clubs needed to be an

• Existing affiliated Volleyball Clubs to establish a sitting part to their club

This will not support

• Existing Sitting Volleyball Clubs

• Clubs not affiliated to Volleyball England

• Schools

• Groups wanted to set up a ‘stand alone’ sitting volleyball club, this would be a group that had no intention of taking part in the VE competitions and events. A number of Universities have enquired but were only planning to play recreationally so were not eligible.

During this round we had no clubs come forward wanting to take advantage of the grant. When we spoke to the clubs they told us that they were busy completing their NVL fixtures, taking teams to the Junior Grand Prix and. due to COVID had lost a number of volunteers and were going to find setting up a sitting section difficult at this time.

The Foundation are keen to continue to support our sitting community so will again offer an opportunity to apply for a start up grant at the end of the summer. If yo think this is something that might be of interest to your club let us know on foundation@volleyballengland.org