There are a variety of funding pots available to support schools, clubs, community groups and voluntary organisations and providers to support the development of new sport and physical activity opportunities.
Grants available can range from £50 - £1 million and new funding schemes come of online throughout the year to support the deliver of specific priorities, which sport and physical activity can play a key role.
To find out what available please click on the links at the side and if you require any support in developing an application please give the Sport Reading Development Team a call today on 0118 901 5158.
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Access to Nature grants programme | The new £25 million Access to Nature grants programme from Natural England is now open for applications. |
| Berkshire Community Foundation (Sports Relief Small grants) | Grants from £1,000 to £5,000 are available to groups |
| Cash 4 Clubs (UK) | Sports club that are registered with their sport’s National Governing Body or local authority can apply for grants of up to £1,000 through the Cash 4 Clubs grants scheme |
| Children in Need | This grant programme is open to organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people who are 18 years old and under. |
| ESF/LSC Community Grants | ESF Community Grants |
| Football Foundation | The Football Foundation provides a number of funding streams, which includes; |
| Innovation Fund | The Innovation Fund will seek to harness new ideas and attract new partners to find breakthrough solutions for grassroots sport. |
| Lord Taverners | The Lord’s Taverners raise money to give young people, particularly those with special needs, ‘a sporting chance’. They achieve this by providing opportunities for young people, able bodied or with disabilities, under the age of 25 to participate in sport & recreation. |
| Lottery - Awards for All | From 1 April 2009 each of the lottery distributors supporting the Awards for All scheme created their own small grants programme. |
| National Sports Foundation | The National Sports Foundation is responsible for levering new and additional private investment into grass roots sport in England, and for promoting the benefits of investing in grass roots sport. The Foundation will match donations from commercial bodies and also contributions from individuals. The Government has invested £34.5m in the Foundation over the next two years to attract this new investment in three key priority areas: |
| New Grass Roots £130m Grants Programme | The grants are available through local distributors |
| O2 – It’s Your Community | Awards of up to £1,000 are available to local groups and individuals for anything that can be shown to benefit your community. |
| Positive Activities for Young People | Funding for Positive Activities for Young People |
| Princes Trust Community Cash Awards | Community Cash Awards are grants to help you set up a project that will benefit your community. |
| Sport Relief - Community Foundation Programme | Sport Relief aims to support projects that use sport and exercise to strengthen communities and provide opportunities for people who are excluded or disadvantaged. |
| Sportsmatch | The Sport England Sportsmatch programme increases investment in community sport by matching sponsorship money pound for pound. |
| Sustainable Facilities | It's not enough just to invest in a facility. You have to make sure that the facility continues to provide high quality opportunities for people to play sport year after year.. |
| The Berkshire Community Foundation | Builds Community Capital Funds to provide grants to small voluntary groups that tackle need at the grassroots of our local community. |
| 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. |
| The Community Aggregates Fund - COMMA | This fund focuses on supporting community projects in settlements affected by quarrying. It is a limited fund which offers funding of between £3,000 and £20,000. |
| The Foundation for Sport and the Arts | Our particular goal at this time is to encourage active participation by young people with an award of up to £40,000 |
| The Royal Bank of Scotland Community Cash Awards | £1 Million available to support youth projects (UK) |
| The Sport England Small Grants Programme | The Sport England Small Grants Programme has been set up to support local community sport projects |
| Unltd Sport Relief Awards 2009 | UnLtd Sport Relief Awards provide opportunities for young people to bring communities together. |
| vcashpoint | vcashpoint is giving away £1 million to 16-25 year olds in England with good ideas |
| Youth Opportunity Fund & Youth Capital Fund | The aim of the YOF is to involve young people, especially hard to reach young people, in identifying positive activities and things to do |
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