“Are you between 6 and 30 years old? Take advantage of 50 euros to join a sports club ”: this is how the Pass’Sport is officially presented, which was launched in 2021 by the Ministry of Sports. Intended for the youngest, this aid for sports practice was designed to “finance all or part of their registration in a sports structure”. In particular, as the ministry specifies, for those who are today “far away from the practice of sport, due to a disability or for financial reasons”. Concretely, who is it aimed at?
Unfortunately, not everyone can benefit from it, because this financial boost is subject to means testing. It is thus intended for children receiving the back-to-school allowance born between September 16, 2005 and December 31, 2017, as well as for children receiving the education allowance for disabled children born between June 1, 2003 and on December 31, 2017.
Some adults can also apply for it: recipients of the allowance for disabled adults born between September 16, 1992 and December 31, 2007, but also students who receive a grant from the state of higher education subject to means, annual aid from the CROUS or a regional grant for health and social training for the 2023–2024 academic year.
Eligible families should have already received an email, or should receive it in the next few days, containing a unique code allowing them to benefit from a deduction of 50 euros when registering with an eligible sports club. It can thus be used for any membership or licensing, until December 31, 2023, with sports associations and structures affiliated with sports federations approved by the Ministry of Sports and sports associations not affiliated with an approved federation but having a valid “youth and sport” accreditation.
This code can also work in certain commercial sporting leisure structures, such as fitness rooms, climbing rooms, five-a-side football clubs or even ice rinks… Provided that they have signed the Pass’Sport commitment charter.
A device that continues to praise the President of the Republic himself. Last year, to promote the Pass’Sport, he even went to Seine-Saint-Denis to hit the ball with a few young people. Sport, he explained at the time, “is very important to have medals” at the Olympic Games, but “it is also essential” for young people, to be “in good health”, in particular because it “allows to fight against overweight and full of diseases”.