Loans are available to local sports organisations in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland for improving the quality and accessibility of their equipment and facilities.

Community Finance Ireland’s All-Island Sports Fund offers flexible loans to sports clubs that are seeking to make a change in their community, whether that is to renovate changing or training facilities for their players and participants, or to improve local infrastructure that makes their club grounds more accessible.

Loans feature the following characteristics:

•            Term of loans: 1 month to 180 months.

•            Maximum interest rate: 6.25%, calculated on a reducing balance.

•            Most loans provided unsecured.

•            No arrangement fee.

•            No early repayment penalty.

The fund offers loans of £10,000 to £500,000 to community sports organisations based in Northern Ireland, Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connacht.