The Arrecife City Council already has all the sports subsidy calls underway with the publication in the BOP, last Friday, October 31 in the BOP, the opening of applications for sporting events. With the inclusion of this announcement from the Department of Sports, the City Council already has the entire process of the new sports subsidy calls underway, in the different modalities, and which from now on are governed by the new municipal ordinances.
After being processed throughout this year, they have been in effect since the beginning of October to give more agility to clubs, athletes, and organizing entities.
The Municipal Government of Arrecife has created a new ordinance that gives clubs more capacity to justify the subsidies they receive from this local Administration in sports matters. The City Council allocates almost 800,000 euros for sports subsidies, defined in the three areas. Last week of October, the Arrecife Consistory published the three specific calls with the insertions of the opening of the period to submit applications.The Department of Sports published last Friday the 31st, in the BOP, the opening of applications for subsidies that will be processed under the competitive concurrence regime, and destined for the organization of sporting events considered of interest to the municipality of Arrecife, charged to the budgets of this economic year endowed with nearly 800,000 euros.
Of that amount, 280,000 euros are allocated, with Friday's announcement in the BOP, to fund the sporting events that are part of the municipal strategy to "consolidate Arrecife as the capital of events and sports," recalls the councilwoman and spokesperson for the PP, Eli Merino. The other two calls, for axes 1 and 2, were published last Wednesday.
The Department of Sports has worked in a coordinated manner on drafting the regulations, public display, and final approval, which took place at the beginning of this October, with its publication in the BOP and entry into force. With these new regulations, the City Council is publishing the call for sports subsidies for the current year of 2025, sports season 2024/2025. The current governing group took office in July 2023. That previous call, which was governed by the previous regulations, covered the 2023/2024 sports season.
Eli Merino highlighted that, "from now on, the Department of Sports has more up-to-date guidelines that will allow clubs and athletes to process their subsidies more quickly, being able to carry out the mandatory justifications, also in a more precise way, in competitive concurrence."
Application forms and annexes will be available to interested parties at the Electronic Headquarters of the Arrecife City Council.
This call is governed by the specific ordinance regulating the Regulatory Bases for Subsidies to be granted by the Department of Sports of the Arrecife City Council for the granting and justification of competitive concurrence subsidies for the organization of sporting events considered to be of interest to the municipality of Arrecife, definitively published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Las Palmas, number 120, of October 6, 2025, as established by Law 38/2003, General of Subsidies.
The financial obligations arising from this call for proposals will be executed against the 2025 budget of this City Council: 340 48003, called "General Administration of Sports. Subsidies for sporting events" for the amount of 280,000.00 euros. The deadline for submitting applications for this call for sporting events will be 10 business days from the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Province of Las Palmas, number 131, Friday, October 31. The submission of applications outside the established period will lead to their inadmissibility without further processing.
€500,000 in subsidies for sports (axes 1 and 2)
Councilwoman Eli Merino reports that "non-profit sports organizations, legally constituted, that have their registered office in the municipality of Arrecife, or those that, without having it, carry out an activity of promotion and sports promotion in the municipality, may apply for subsidies or financial aid, being of special interest that the actions or projects are destined to the community of residents in the municipality of Arrecife.
The petitioners must be legally registered and recognized in the Registry of Sports Entities of the Government of the Canary Islands, with at least one year of seniority at the date of publication of the Call.
Petitioners must be "legally registered and recognized in the Registry of Sports Entities of the Government of the Canary Islands, with at least one year of seniority on the date of publication of the call for applications. In addition, in axis 2 (Sports entities), the applicant must have participated in official federated competitions in the current season of the call for applications in the Youth, Junior, Senior or higher categories (16 years and older), training and competing locally in Arrecife.
The activity will have a minimum duration of 9 months. The BOP specifies that only those sports modalities that are recognized by the Higher Sports Council will be subsidized
The purpose of the grant will be to promote and organize grassroots sports in the municipality of Arrecife, with special interest given to actions or projects linked to any of the following axes, and therefore grant categories: - Axis 1. Promotion and Organization of Grassroots Sports, including the pre-Benjamin and cadet (under-16) categories - Axis 2. Support for the social work carried out by sports entities with activity in the youth and/or senior categories in the municipality in official federated sports (16 years and older).
The call, for axes 1 and 2, has a submission period of 15 days, and is governed by the Specific Ordinance regulating the Regulatory Bases for Subsidies to be granted by the Department of Sports of the Arrecife City Council for the granting and justification of competitive concurrence subsidies for the promotion of grassroots sports and competitive sports to schools and sports entities, definitively published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Las Palmas, number 120, of October 6, 2025.
All applications, those of axes 1, 2, and 3, must be submitted, with their attached documentation, as established by Law 39/2015 in its article 14, obligatorily through the electronic registry of this City Council or by any of the means admitted by law as a result of the provisions of articles 14 and 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, of the Common Administrative Procedure.