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Funding for Sport
Inspired Facilities Fund
The Inspired Facilities fund could help you refurbish or upgrade your sports facility; or convert an existing building into a venue suitable for sport and accessible to the whole community.
Part of Places People Play, Sport England’s programme to deliver a London 2012 legacy of increased mass participation in sport, it is investing £80 million of National Lottery funding in up to 1500 community sports projects between 2011 and 2014.
To qualify for a grant you will need to:
- Show how your project will keep and, ideally, attract more people to sport
- Demonstrate that it is needed and wanted by the local community
- Explain how it will cover its running costs and remain open for sporting use for years to come.
Round 5: Open 21 October – 16 December 2013 (5pm deadline) Read more...
McDonald’s Kickstart grants for community football
McDonalds have made £75,000 available through their Kickstart grant scheme, supporting community football. Football clubs applying need to be recognised by the FA, and have at least one team at or below junior level (U18).
They can apply for one-off grants of between £500 to £2500 for things like: - club facilities, grounds-keeping tools, training courses, pitch hire, mini-vans and washing machines
There are four application rounds this year - the next closes on 30 June. Read more...
Community Sport Activation Fund
The fund supports grassroots activity at a very local level.
Projects could be for up to three years and the grants will range from £50,000 - £250,000 with partnership funding required.
There are five opportunities to apply for this Fund over the next four years. The deadlines for 2013 are:
Round 2 - 7 May - 1 July 2013
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The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
The foundation is a general grant making trust, the trustees are interested in and support a diverse range of charities. Organisations must be UK registered charities or Community Amateaur Sport Clubs. Read more...
| Sport England - Protecting Playing Fields |
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The programme will fund capital projects that create, develop and improve playing fields for sporting and community use and offer long term protection of the site for sport.
For further information please click here
Closing dates: final round will open 10 June and close 5 August 2013
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| The Rowing Foundation |
Grant Value £500 - £2,000 |
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Promotes the participation in rowing of young people (those under 18 or still in full time education) and the disabled of all ages.
The Foundation gives grants of £500-£2,000 to help British rowing organisations and clubs whose requirements may be too small or who may be otherwise ineligible for an approach to the National Lottery or other similar sources of funds.
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
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| William Wates Memorial Trust |
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The Trust is a grants giving registered charity set up in 1998 with a mission to help the most disadvantaged young people keep away from a life of crime and violence, and fulfil their potential. This is mainly achieved by supporting charities that engage young people through the mediums of sports, arts and education.
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
Closing date: The trust has 3 grant meetings per year in late January, Mid May and Late September
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| Kent Trust for Youth Sport |
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The Kent Trust for Youth Sport is a charity which aims to help young people within the County to participate in sport.
They have two funding streams available:
1) Cornwallis Sporting Excellence Awards for Individuals
The aim of the awards for individuals is to develop / support sports excellence. Awards are available to assist high level sports performers with the costs of specialist equipment and clothing, competing, travelling to competitions and training.
Deadline for applications is 1st December 2012
2) Sports Grants for Clubs and Community Organisations
The aim of the grants to clubs and community organisations are to help young people (aged under 21 years) within the County to participate in sport.
Deadlines for applications are: 1st September and 1st December 2012
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
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| The National Hockey Foundation |
Grant Value: £10,000 - £75,000 |
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The Foundation primarily makes grants to a wide range of organisations that meet one of the following areas:
• Young people and hockey.
• Enabling the development of hockey at youth or community level.
• Smaller Charities.
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
Ron Pickering Memorial Fund
Applications are invited from young track and field athletes who are in education and may need financial help towards training or provision of equipment.
Applicants must be aged between 15 and 23 years, medalists from their National Schools AA, AAA U17, & U20 or U23 Championships or in the top six of the appropriate UK ranking lists.
For further information please click here
The grant application process starts each year on October 1st, with completed forms submitted online by November 30th.
Active Dover Grants
Available to sports clubs across the Dover District who are searching for funding in order to achieve one of the following aims;
- Clubmark Accreditation (from NGB equivalent / Sport England's Clubmark Accreditation),
- Increase the number of training opportunities for; coaches, referees, committee members and club volunteers,
- Increase overall participation / membership, (target areas; adult & family participation, women & girls
- participation, people on a low income, people with a disability, people from a minority ethnic group,)
- Improve performance of participants and associated competition costs,
- Associated promotion and publicity costs to any of the above
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Deadline dates for applications in each calendar year are 28th February, 30th June, 31st October
| The Dickie Bird Foundation |
| The foundation aims to help disadvantaged young people to participate to the best of their ability in the sport of their choice irrespective of their social circumstances, culture or ethnicity. Grants can help with the cost of clothing and equipment and make a small contribution towards travel expenses within the UK. The Foundation will only accept applications from individuals not organisations. |
| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
| Boost Charitable Trust |
Grant Value: up to £500 |
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Boost Charitable Trust was created in 2005 to Build On Over-looked Sporting Talent, to champion the disabled and disadvantaged and to inspire them to overcome their challenges through the power of sport.
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| Fuserna Foundation |
Grant Value: £5,000 - £15,000 |
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The Fuserna Foundation revitalises and supports charities and charitable projects that are subject to financial constraints and have a combined lack of exposure and publicity in relation to their charitable cause. The Foundation will usually issue grants between £5,000 and £15,000. Applications can be submitted at any time.
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| H.B. Allen Charitable Trust |
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This is a general charitable trust. The Trustees have no restrictions on them as to the kinds of project or the areas they can support. The Trustees are prepared to fund core costs as well as capital projects, but they are unlikely to provide initial funding for newly established organisations
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| Inspired Facilities Fund |
Grant Value: £20,000 - £150,000
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Inspired Facilities is focused on making it easier for local community and volunteer groups to improve and refurbish sports clubs or transform non-sporting venues into modern grassroots sport facilities
Community and voluntary organisations, including parish and town councils can apply for grants worth between £20,000 and £50,000.
Local authorities, statutory bodies and education establishments such as schools, can apply for grants between £20,000 and £150,000.
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Funding rounds:
- Round 2: 1 February 2012 to 2 April 2012
- Round 3: 23 July 2012 to 17 September 2012
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The Kelly Family Charitable Trust Grant Value:£1,000 - £5,000
The Trust prioritises funding in favour of charities whose activities involve all or most family members in initiatives that support and encourage the family to work as a cohesive unit intackling problems that face one or more of its members. The overall objective is to reinforce the potential benefit and support that family members as a unit can give to each other.
Applications are also welcomed from sport and health-related charities whose activities comply with the above criteria.
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
Closing date: 1st September 2013
| Heart Research UK |
Grant Value: £10,000
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Heart Research UK give Healthy Heart Grants of up to £10,000 to community groups around the UK to allow them to run projects to encourage people to lead Healthy Heart lifestyles.
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
| Closing date: 31 August 2013 |
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Sported. - up to £2,000
Sported have launched a new funding stream aimed to provide support to their members. Read more....
Sport England - Small Grants Programme
The Sport England Small Grants Programme uses lottery funding to make awards of between £300 and £10,000 to not-for-profit organisations to deliver new community projects to grow or sustain participation in sport.
Sport England will support:
They will not fund an individual, sole trader or partnership, organisations established to make profit or organisations not established in the UK.
Their main priorities are:
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Projects increasing the number of adults participating in moderate intensity sports.Sport England has a target of getting 1 million more adults participating in 3 x 30 minutes of moderate intensity sport per week by 2012.
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Projects seeking to reduce the drop off rates for 16-19 year olds, in particular the following sports - Badminton, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Gymnastics, Netball, Rugby League, Rugby Union, and Tennis. Research shows that large numbers of young people stop playing sport at this age.
For further information including details on how to apply click here…
Barclays Community Sports Award - £1,000
The Barclays Community Sports Award is a new award to recognise the outstanding achievements of individuals and groups that use sport to benefit communities across the UK. If you would like to nominate a person, group or not for profit organisation which has used the positive power of sport to make a real and lasting difference in their community then please complete the online form.
Each monthly winner will receive £1,000 for their group or organisation, a limited edition trophy and will be entered into the end of season award to win a further £5,000. The end of season award winner will also receive a VIP trip to London to receive their award from Gareth Southgate.
Any individual, group of individuals or not-for-profit organisation can enter the awards, in relation to a recent contribution they’ve made to the community through sport; however, there are certain exceptions.
For further information including details of how to apply please click here…
Deadline: 5pm on the 20th of each month
Peter Harrison Foundation
Opportunities Through Sport – The trustees welcome grant applications from charities in the UK whose projects fall into the following categories:
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Provide a focus for skills development and confidence building through the medium of sport
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Have a strong training and/or educational theme within the sporting activity
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Provide sporting equipment or facilities for disabled or disadvantaged people
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Have a high degree of community involvement
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Help to engage children or young people at risk of crime, truancy or addiction
Special Needs and Care for Children and Young People – The trustees welcome grant applications from charities in Kent whose projects fall into the following categories:
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Work with or benefit disabled, chronically or terminally ill children and provide support for their parents and carers
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Help to engage children or young people at risk of crime, truancy or addiction
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Projects organized for young people at risk of homelessness or that provide new opportunities for homeless young people.
For further information including details of how to apply click here…
There are no specific deadlines and trustees meet throughout the financial year to consider grant applications.
Sports Grants Scheme
Cash 4 Clubs is a sports grants scheme which provides funding to support grassroots UK sports clubs. It gives clubs a chance to win grants ranging from £250 to £1000. Grants can be to improve facilities, purchase new equipment, gain coaching qualifications, or generally invest in the sustainability of the club. Closing date: When applications are received they will be processed during the next decision-making session. These are held at approximately quarterly intervals throughout the year. Read more...
Garfield Weston Foundation
The foundation is delighted to support a wide range of organisations but will only consider applications from UK registered charities.
It will not fund one off events or make a commitment to fund over several years. Grants made are typically for a single year. For more information click here...
Kent Sport
Provides information on over 100 local and national funding streams. For more information click here....
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