Sustainable Sports Facilities
All houses and buildings must become more sustainable step by step to achieve the climate goals in Voorschoten. This is also important for sports facilities. In addition, making the club's buildings and installations more sustainable is beneficial for the club's finances. Energy-saving measures, such as installing solar panels or insulating the clubhouse, result in a lower energy bill. On this page, you will find information about advice and support, as well as an overview of subsidies and loans.
Advice and support
When making the sports facility more sustainable, your association can receive guidance from NOC*NSF. The organisation has developed a programme that supports and unburdens associations. This is free of charge. For more information, please visit the website of NOC*NSF.
Sport NL Groen has developed atool( ) 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 Sector is an independent knowledge platform for sports associations, entrepreneurial sports providers, and municipalities.
Subsidies and schemes
Sports clubs can make use of various subsidies and schemes:
- Stimulating construction and maintenance of sports facilities. Construction and Maintenance of sports facilities (BOSA): national subsidy to stimulate the construction, maintenance and management of sports facilities, EN the purchase and maintenance of sports equipment.
- ISDE subsidy, national subsidy for purchasing 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 on a large-consumer connection.
- Energy Investment Allowance (EIA).
- Environmental Investment Allowance (MIA) and Arbitrary Depreciation of Environmental Investments (Vamil).
- Through the BNG Sustainability Fund, sports clubs can apply for a Sports loan to make their accommodation more energy-efficient.
- Un-Health programme Civil Society Real Estate South Holland offers free process support for making small civil society real estate, such as sports facilities, more sustainable.