Sustainable Sports Facilities
All homes and buildings must become more sustainable, step by step, in order to meet Voorschoten’s climate goals. This is also important for sports facilities. In addition, making the club’s buildings and systems more sustainable is good for the club’s finances. Energy-saving measures, such as installing solar panels or insulating the clubhouse, result in lower energy bills. On this page, you’ll find information about advice and support, as well as an overview of grants and loans.
Advice and Support
Your club can receive guidance from NOC*NSF on making your sports facilities more sustainable. The organization has developed a program designed to support clubs and take the burden off them. This service is free of charge. For more information, visit theNOC*NSF website at.
Sport NL Groen has developed atoolat that helps sports clubs identify concrete ways to make their sports facilities more sustainable. Enter your club’s address information to receive advice on energy-saving measures, grant opportunities, and financing, for example.
Sustainable Sports Sectoris an independent knowledge platform for sports clubs, sports service providers, and municipalities.
Grants and Programs
Sports clubs can take advantage of various grants and programs:
- Incentives for the Construction and Maintenance of Sports Facilities. Construction and Maintenance of Sports Facilities (BOSA): a national grant program designed to encourage the construction, maintenance, and management of sports facilities, as well as the purchase and maintenance of sports equipment.
- ISDE subsidy, a national subsidy for the purchase of a solar water heater, a heat pump, a connection to the district heating network, insulation measures, small wind turbines, and solar panels.
- SDE++ subsidy, for example, for solar panels connected to a high-volume consumer account.
- Energy Investment Allowance (EIA).
- Environmental Investment Deduction (MIA) and Accelerated Depreciation for Environmental Investments (Vamil).
- Through the BNG Sustainability Fund, sports clubs can apply for aSports Loanto make their facilities more energy-efficient.
- The South Holland Social Real Estate Sustainability Programoffers free process support for making small social real estate properties, such as sports facilities, more sustainable.