School Sport Foundation

The aim of the School Sport Foundation is to encourage, support and promote sport and healthy lifestyle initiatives for young people.

Corporate Partners can direct their support for School Sport through the School Sport Foundation.

The Minister for Education and Training, launched the School Sport Foundation in 1997 as a joint initiative of the Department of Education and Training in association with the NSW Teachers Federation and the Federation of Parents and Citizens Association of NSW. The Foundation has bi-partisan support.

The programs which the Foundation supports range from grassroots participation through to elite sport competition and State and National Championships.

The Foundation supports 3 core program areas:

• Representative Sport Program promotes participation in competitive Area, Zone and Region based sport (est. 150,000 participants across 28 sports), which then leads to Representative State and National Championship Events (est. 17,000 competitors)
• School Swimming Scheme is a structured Learn-to-Swim program for Primary students (105,000 students per year)
• School Grants Fund allocates grants to individual schools for specific sporting and healthy lifestyle initiatives.

For more information on the Representative Sport Program and the School Swimming Scheme please follow the link to the School Sport Unit 

The Foundation's Major Sponsor, Sydney Markets have been long term, valued Sponsor. They recognise the enormous contribution Representative Team Sport plays in building social capital and a cohesive community.

Corporate support is focussed on assisting approximately 17,000 of our 740,000 students who compete each year at 75 State and Championships across 25 sports.

The contribution provided by the corporate partners of the School Sport Foundation supports talented students and their families from across the State.

The School Sport Foundation has a dedicated administrative team at the DEC's Sponsorship Unit.