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The third element of the City of Turku’s sports grant system reform is the new support for competence and development targeted at sports clubs, which aims to ensure high-quality coaching in all sports clubs and associations in Turku.
The City of Turku is reforming grants related to sports and the pricing of the use of sports facilities. The reforms will be introduced in 2025. The aim is to promote the well-being of children and young people through physical activities, to support hobbyists of different sports more equally than at present and to control the increase in the costs of hobbies.
From 2025 onwards, Turku is the first in Finland to introduce a sports grant for children and young people: Each year, the City of Turku gives all Turku residents aged 7–19 years a voucher for the fees of regular, guided sports hobby activities organised by sports clubs and associations in Turku!
The sports grant system will be reformed from 2025 onwards.
Grants granted by the Sports Committee in 2023-2024
Operating grants
- Operating grant for sports clubs – Application period 18.9.-31.10.2023
- Operating grant for other association activities – Application period 18.9.-31.10.2023
- Personal assistant grant – Application period 2.10.-15.11.2023
- Event grant – Application period 1.2.-31.10.2023 (at latest 1 month prior to the event)
Grants for environments
- Facility rent grant – Application period 1.2.-31.10.2023
- Grant for Building a Spor
Current news
- The City Council has decided on the main guidelines for the overall reform of the grant system and the pricing of sports facilities included in the development policies of the sports facility network. The main guidelines will be introduced in 2025. The grant and pricing principles and details will be decided in spring 2023.
Private roads are roads that are maintained by property owners and other stakeholders of the road. The road stakeholders are responsible for participating in the building and maintenance of the road according to the benefits it provides for each stakeholder. The stakeholders of the road can organize and form a road maintenance association if there are several stakeholders and/or if the road maintenance based on the principle of consensus becomes difficult.
The personal assistant grant is meant to support and encourage clubs and associations to include persons of special needs, young and old alike, in their activities.
Application period
Applications are processed once a year.
Deadline: 15th of November
Conditions of eligibility
The grant can be applied for by sports and exercise clubs as well as associations that organize sports and exercise as long as they are based in Turku.
Nuori Suomi ry (the present Olympiakomitea ry) developed the Sinettiseura emblem, a quality standard for sports and exercise clubs and associations, in the beginning of 1990s. A club’s activities must meet 12 different criteria in order to receive the Sinettiseura emblem. The aim is to receive two new Sinettiseura members from Turku each year.
The acknowledgement/grant is given to clubs and associations that receive the Sinettiseura emblem during the current year.
The grant supports sports and exercise clubs' regular hobby, training and competing activity.
Application period
The application period will open again at the end of April 16.–30.4.2018 for those who haven’t applied for an Operational grant for a sport club by 28.2.2018.
Conditions of eligibility
The grant can be applied for by Turku -based sports and exercise clubs
The grant is meant to support regular sports and exercise organized by associations for disabled persons, chronically diseased persons, pensioners, or immigrants.
Application period
Application period will open again on 16.–30.4.2018 concerning those who haven’t applied for Operational Grant for Other Activities of Associations by 28.2.2018.
The grant is meant to support the organizing sport events in Turku. The special focus is on events meant for children and youth, as well as events large enough to be classified as public events. No training camps or training events.
Target group
Turku -based sports and exercise clubs as well as associations that organize sports and exercise.
Application period
At the latest 31th of October.
How to apply:
Please note that the grant application system, instructions, and forms are in Finnish!
This grant is meant to support the training of coaches, instructors and clerical workers at home and abroad. The grant is for sports and exercise clubs, special groups, and associations of pensioners or immigrants that organize sports or exercise.
Application period
Applications are processed once per year. Deadline: 31st of October
This grant supports the making of new orienteering maps or updating of old ones.
Application period
Deadline: 31st of October
Conditions of eligibility
This grant can be applied for by all Turku-based sports and exercise clubs.
How to apply
Please note that the grant application system, instructions, and forms are in Finnish!
This grant is meant to support the building of sports or exercise facilities, as well as expansion projects and small scale renovations. The aim of this grant is to get new exercise facilities for the residents of Turku and to encourage sports and exercise clubs to create good conditions for residents of Turku to train and compete.
Application period
Grant can be applied consistently, but at the latest 31st of October
Conditions of eligibility
This grant can be applied for by all Turku-based sports and exercise clubs.
Clubs and organizations mainly use facilities that are owned and maintained by the city. The grant is meant to support clubs and organizations with their rent if they use other facilities that are not owned by the city, with some limitations and exceptions.
A reserved appropriation includes the support given to the water sports and swimming activities of disability organizations.
Application period
Deadline: 31 October 2019
Operating grants are granted for Turku-based youth organizations and similar regional organizations to be used for realizing general youth activity that is statutory and in accordance with the organizations’ agendas. If the youth activity in question is organized by an adult organization, the youth activities must be separated from other operations of the organization in accounting and in the annual report.
Agreement-based grants can be granted for registered, Turku-based youth organizations and similar regional organizations. A regional organization needs to commit itself to the financial and educational objectives specifically approved by the committee.
Negotiations are a precondition for an agreement-based grant and the agreement will be written based on it. The aim of the agreement is that the Youth Committee would strengthen the perseverance and development of the organization’s youth activities both qualitatively and quantitatively.
The project grants are meant for the financial support of free youth activity groups and youth activities organized by the youths themselves. Examples of such activities are camps and any other functions realized and organized by young persons that support the participation and influencing of the youth.
A precondition for granting financial assistance is that at least two thirds of the members of the youth organisations and the youth activity groups are under the age of 29.
Itse tehty means ’self-made’ in English. Itse tehty activities started in October 2013 and are a way of participation and influencing for young people resident in Turku. Itse tehty project funding can be applied for by a group of youths (min. 3 persons) who visit youth spaces of the Youth Services. Most of the group members must be 13–19 years old residents of Turku. Apply for Itse tehty project funding with the online form.
A call is open for research projects matching the Turku Urban Research Programme. The research funding is provided by the City of Turku, the West-Finland Housing Association of Public Utility, the University of Turku, and Åbo Akademi University. The call applies to interdisciplinary research groups, led by and including researchers affiliated with the University of Turku (UTU) and Åbo Akademi University (ÅA). The consortiums can involve also researchers from other universities and research institutes.