The Arrecife City Council publishes this Wednesday, October 29, the call for sports subsidies to support the activity and work of clubs, and athletes who stand out in competitions. This new call for sports subsidies, endowed with half a million euros, will be processed with the application of the new bases and ordinances to give more security and agility to the clubs in their justifications.
The Municipal Government of Arrecife has, in recent months, carried out the regulatory modification in plenary session to articulate the bases and ordinances to the new reality of the clubs to access official aid.
The Department of Sports, led by the PP spokesperson, Eli Merino, has worked in a coordinated manner on drafting the regulations, public display, and final approval, which took place earlier 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 sports season 2023/2024.
Eli Merino highlighted that, from now on, "the Department of Sports has more up-to-date regulations that will allow clubs and athletes to process their subsidies more quickly, being able to carry out the required justifications, also in a more precise way, in competitive concurrence."
500,000 euros in subsidies for sports (axes 1 and 2)
As noted today in the Official Bulletin of the Province (BOP) in the announcement of the call, the "excerpt of the resolution calling for subsidies under a competitive system for the promotion of grassroots sports and competitive sports for schools and sports entities, during the season" is cited. In accordance with the provisions of articles 17.3.b and 20.8.a of Law 38/2003, of November 17, General Subsidies Law, the excerpt of the call is published, the full text of which can be consulted in the National Database of Subsidies.
Beneficiaries
Councilwoman Eli Merino reports that "non-profit sports entities, 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 requests 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 to 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 (from 16 years of age), training and competing locally in Arrecife. - Duration: 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 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.
Application Deadline
The deadline for submitting applications will be 15 business days from the day following the publication of the announcement of the call for applications in the B.O.P. of Las Palmas through the BDNS. All applications 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: https://arrecife.sedelectronica.es, 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, on Common Administrative Procedure.
Application forms and annexes will be available to interested parties at the Electronic Headquarters of the Arrecife City Council.
