An excellent document for all clubs to read through, it might make the difference as to whether your next big project goes ahead or not
FUNDING FOR CLUBS AND COMMUNITIES
There are over half a million voluntary and community groups in the UK. These groups range from small community groups to large national or international organisations. Over the past decade, there has been an increasing trend of public sector services being delivered by voluntary and community organisations on behalf of the government. According to the most recent Treasury figures on the sector, voluntary and community income coming from the government is £3.5bn - almost one-third of the sector's total income.
Where can voluntary and community groups get financial support?
Funding, mainly through grants, is a means of providing financial assistance to voluntary and community organisations. A lot of groups are largely dependent on the receipt of funding to keep going in the work they do or in setting up new projects. Grants are sometimes hard to come by and applying for them can involve a great deal of hard work but on the plus side they don't have to be paid back as long as terms are met.
Where does funding come from?
Funding for voluntary and community groups is available from a variety of sources including:
Central government departments, regional bodies and local government.
The lottery.
Charitable trusts and foundations.
Private companies.
SMALL GRANTS
Awards for All
Awards for All Wales is a simple small grants scheme making awards of between £500 and £5,000. The Awards for All Programme aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need. Awards for All Wales aims to fund projects that:
• Support community activity - by helping communities to meet their needs through voluntary action, self-help projects, local facilities or events. (By communities we mean people in a local area or people who share a common interest or need.)
• Extend access and participation – by encouraging more people to become actively involved in local groups and projects, and by supporting activities that aim to be open and accessible to everyone who wishes to take part.
• Increase skill and creativity – by supporting activities which help to develop people and organisations, improve skills and raise standards.
• Improve the quality of life - by supporting local projects that improve people’s opportunities, health, welfare, environment or local facilities, especially those most disadvantaged in society.
For further information follow http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/wales/
Barclays Spaces for Sport programme
Barclays is committing £30 million to its Spaces for Sport programme over an initial three-year period. The Football Foundation will further provide £2.1 million of matched funding for flagship sites every year, while Groundwork will contribute £250,000 per year to the local sites programme. The programme will create a small number of major capital developments. Of more interest to many clubs will be the 3,000 coaching pack each worth around £750. These are available to clubs and groups in areas of social and economic deprivation focused on those with physical and learning disabilities, young people, women and girls, and black and ethnic minority groups.
For further information follow http://group.barclays.com/Citizenship/Community-Investment/Community-programmes/Barclays-Spaces-for-Sports/
Cash 4 Clubs
Cash 4 Clubs is a sports funding scheme which gives clubs a unique chance to apply for grants to improve facilities, purchase new equipment, gain coaching qualifications, and generally invest in the sustainability of their club. Cash 4 Clubs offers all sports clubs in the UK the chance to win grants ranging from £250 to £1000.
The Cash 4 Clubs scheme is funded by Betfair and is supported by SportsAid, the charity for sports people. Betfair and SportsAid have worked in partnership for a number of years and both organisations understand the importance of community sport in promoting an active lifestyle and stimulating local pride. It's a great time to be involved with sport and Cash 4 Clubs can hopefully play an important role in helping clubs to sustain and develop themselves.
For more information visit – http://www.cash-4-clubs.com/
Central Social and Recreational Trust
Up to £1000 for community sports clubs or groups to develop youth sports participation.
For further information visit - http://csrt.info/
Community Chest
Community Chest is a Sports Wales Initiative for community sport and physical recreation. Community Chest offers grants of up to £1,500 in any 12 month period for activities that:
• Encourage more people to be more active, more often
• Raise the standards of existing activities
The scheme is open to any group as long as they hold a bank account in the organisation’s name. Community Chest will normally consider all the costs associated with ensuring a project is successful. Normally grant aid is only provided for up to 20 sessions of a project, after which time projects are expected to become self-sufficient.
For more information or to download another application please visit the following website: www.sportwales.org.uk/funding--support.aspx
County Sport Partnerships - Sportivate
Support for organisations to provide sport/physical activity to young people aged 14 – 25 years old in six week blocks. The programme aims to ensure 300,000 participants complete coaching sessions and ensure at least 2 in 5 (120,000) participants continue doing sport regularly from attending these Sportivate coaching sessions. Funding is primarily for personnel but will also cover basic equipment costs and facility hire if required. For more information visit your local CSP website and search for Sport Unlimited – Find your CSP website via http://www.cspnetwork.org
Peter Harrison Foundation
The Foundation’s Opportunities through Sport programme accepts applications from projects which provide opportunities for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged to fulfil their potential and to develop other personal and life skills. This Programme is a nationwide one and applications are accepted from charities throughout the United Kingdom. Grants are often ‘one off’ grants for capital projects but the Foundation also considers revenue funding for a new project or if funding is key to the continuing success or survival of an established project. For more information visit - http://www.peterharrisonfoundation.org/
Sport Relief
A Comic Relief programme aimed at using sport as a means to bring young people together. The grant is distributed through the Community Foundation in Wales. Maximum grant: £5,000.
For more information visit - http://www.sportrelief.com/
Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards
The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme provides one-off donations of between £500 and £4,000. The funding we give goes towards providing practical benefits, such as equipment and resources for projects that directly benefit children, the elderly and adults and children with disabilities, living in the local communities around our stores in the UK. There are two rounds of funding every year for each category.
There are two categories of Community Awards:
1. Grants to support children’s welfare and/or children’s educations (including special needs schools)
2. Grants to support elderly people and/or adults and children with disabilities
For further information visit – http://www.tescocharitytrustcommunityawards-applications.co.uk/
The Dickie Bird Foundation for Disadvantaged Young People
Support for individuals to help disadvantaged young people (under the age of 18) to participate in sport, to the best of their ability, in the sport of their choice, irrespective of their social circumstances, culture or ethnicity. Funding is available between £50 and £5,000 and can be used for sports kit, coaching and training
For more information visit – http://www.thedickiebirdfoundation.co.uk/home/grant-information/grant-application-form/
The Co-operative Community Fund
Community Fund grants, between £100 and £2,000 are awarded to community, voluntary, or self-help groups to run projects. Applications for this fund can only be completed on-line. In 2008 the average award given was £842. If you are a newly formed group (less than three months) the maximum you can apply for is £500.
For more information visit: http://www.co-operative.coop/membership/local-communities/community-fund/
The Millennium Stadium
Charitable Trust Grant Scheme Funding is available to voluntary, not-for-profit and charitable organisations. The grant scheme focuses on four key areas: sport, environment, the arts and the community. Although all organisations will be considered on their merit, priority will be given to organisations that provide for people who are disadvantaged by age, gender, disability, ethnicity or social and economic circumstance. Maximum grant: Local organizations £2,000; regional organisations £10,000; national organizations £20,000. For more information visit - http://www.millenniumstadiumtrust.co.uk/en/fe/page.asp?n1=10
The People’s Postcode Trust Fund
People’s Postcode Trust welcomes innovative and entrepreneurial project proposals which bring a direct benefit to the local community in which the group operates. Awards up to £10,000.
Deadlines are:
Open Date Close Date
Monday 11th April Friday 27th May
Monday 11th July Friday 26th August
Monday 10th October Friday 11th November
Examples of projects include:
• helping people of all ages to take part in community sport projects
• setting up a local group to promote healthier lifestyles
• developing an existing community service such as wildlife walks, playgrounds or bicycle areas
• mobility schemes or respite services to help people play a fuller part in local life
• small buildings improvements, such as a kitchen, or computer room, to a community group's premises
• educational projects to help educate or re-skill young people or adults
• creating a shared garden for people who live in urban areas
• purchase of sports equipment to improve standards and involve more people
• activities
For more information visit: http://www.postcodetrust.org.uk/
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Small Grant Scheme
This scheme concentrates on projects addressing Rural Issues and Urban Deprivation.
Applicants must clearly show in their appeal how their project fits into one or both of these categories.
Within these overarching themes, we are interested in three areas, Community Support, Disability and
Healthcare, Arts, Education and Heritage.
Grants from £5000 to £10000 are available.
For further information visit – http://www.trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk/
Torch Trophy Trust
Up to £1000 to develop sports volunteering at a local level.
For further information visit: http://www.torchtrophytrust.org/ttt_site.htm
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
The Trust offers opportunities to increase experience through overseas travel in order to benefit others within the community. The grant includes return travel, daily living, internal travel and appropriate insurance. The average grant given out is approximately £5,300, covering a stay of between 4-8 weeks. Sport was added as a category in 2009.
For more information visit - http://www.wcmt.org.uk/
LARGE GRANTS
Big lottery Fund – Big Local Trust
The Big Lottery Fund in England is investing up to £200 million in 100–150 urban and rural neighbourhoods that have been overlooked for funding. The funding is to set up an independent charitable Trust that will support local funding schemes in the targeted neighbourhoods.
The local funding schemes will enable people to make their communities better places to live in, now and in the future, by helping them develop the skills and confidence they need to identify priorities that matter to them and to take action to change things for the better.
The Trust will have up to ten years to allocate its endowment.
For further information visit – http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_biglocaltrust
Comic Relief – Sport for Change
Open 10th April 2012 to 8th June 2012
The Comic Relief ‘Sport for Change’ grants programme focuses on how sport can play a part in delivering positive change within the lives of individuals and communities. Also, how sport can tackle social issues to achieve measurable social change.
The priorities are:
• Disadvantaged people – increasing inclusion and well being
• Increasing community involvement
• Increasing knowledge of how sport can be used as a tool for social change
Maximum grant: £100,000 Minimum grant : £10,000 (2 stage process)
For further information visit – http://www.comicrelief.com/apply-for-a-grant/apply-for-a-uk-grant
Development Grant
Sport Wales’ Development Grant is available to fund projects that develop sport and physical activity in the community. Development Grants are available between £1,501 and £25,000 for projects such as:
• Establishing new teams
• Coach Education
• Equipment
• Floodlighting
• Developing training areas
• Purchase of land or rights in land to develop activity areas
• Start up grants to support new enterprises
The scheme is open to any group as long as they have a written constitution and hold a bank account in the organisation’s name.
To apply for a Development Grant - Contact Sport Wales on 0845 045 0904 or email scw@scw.org.uk who will be happy to discuss the project and provide advice and guidance where necessary. Or alternatively, you can download an application and get further information from : www.sportwales.org.uk/funding--support.aspx
Wooden Spoon
Wooden Spoon supports projects which will benefit disadvantaged children and young people and which meet the terms of our funding criteria and mission statement. Projects must normally be of a capital nature, with a reasonably long-term prospective lifetime. Wooden Spoon only very rarely provides support for revenue expenditure. Grants are generally in the range £20K - £100K and representing 25% - 100% of the total project cost.
For further information visit – http://www.woodenspoon.com
FURTHER HELP
Visit NVCO Funding Central website to search for funders – http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk
Visit J4B Community Grants website to search for funders – http://www.j4bcommunity.co.uk
Visit the Fundraising Directory website for information on fundraising and funders – http://www.thefundraisingdirectory.co.uk
Visit your local County Sport Partnership website and click on their ‘Funding’ tab
Visit your local authority voluntary service to search for other grants.
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