Funding 4 Sport - Alphabet of Sports Funding F to H

Alphabet of Sports Funding. ‘F – H’

Football Foundation; Grow the Game

Grow the Game provides funding for projects that use football to increase participation by both players and volunteers.

Grow the Game provides funding to contribute towards a combination of the following essential costs associated with providing new football activity.

Facility hire
Hire of FA qualified coaches
Referees fees
CRB checks
Affiliation fees
League entry
First aid kits
Promotion and publicity
FA coaching courses
Additional courses

Organisations are able to receive a £5,000 grant over two or three years with financial support being reduced in the second or third year of the project.

No partnership funding will be requested.

To visit their website click here; http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk/apply/grow-the-game/

Foyle Foundation

Our Small Grants Scheme is designed to support smaller charities in the UK, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities. Please note we are not able to support individuals.

Funding is available between £1,000 and £10,000.

To visit their website click here; http://www.foylefoundation.org.uk/small-grants-scheme/

Garfield Weston Foundation

Provide one-off cash donations, although they are prepared to receive a further application after a period of one year.

They are inclined to resist funding an individual salary but are prepared to consider making a donation towards general running costs.

There is no limit on the size of grant. Every application is considered on its own merits.

To visit their website click here; www.garfieldweston.org

Groundmatch Grant Scheme (Rugby)

The Rugby Football Foundation is a Charitable Trust established by the Rugby Football Union. The purpose of the Rugby Football Foundation is to promote and develop community amateur rugby in England.

The Foundation is responsible for a substantial community rugby programme which includes the provision of rugby development officers, the training and development of referees and the production of coaching and technical material.

The Foundation also administers a Capital Fund for the financing of capital projects aimed at improving facilities which lead to the recruitment and retention of rugby players.

Development of Community Rugby can be summarised as:

More People
Better Places
Access For All
Enjoyment

Clubs at level 5 and below can apply for either a Groundmatch grant of between £1,500 and £5,000 or a Helping Hand grant of up to £1,500. Both schemes require matched funding on a 50:50 basis and are for capital works projects that support the retention and recruitment of community rugby players.

There is also an Interest Free Loan scheme provides up to £100,000 in an interest free loan to capital works to clubs at level 4 and below which contribute to the retention and recruitment of community rugby players.

To visit their website click here; http://www.rfu.com/managingrugby/clubdevelopment/financeandfunding/fundingagencies/rff

Peter Harrison Foundation

The foundation has an ‘Opportunities through Sport’ programme aimed at assisting sports activities or projects for disabled or disadvantaged individuals.

To visit their website click here; www.peterharrisonfoundation.org

Healthy Hearts Grants

Heart Research UK Healthy Heart Grants are available for new, original and innovative projects that actively promote Heart Health and help to prevent, or reduce, the risk of heart disease in specific groups or communities.

Grants available up to £10,000.

To visit their website click here; http://www.heartresearch.org.uk/grants/healthyheartgrant

Funding Streams

Women’s Sport TrustThe Women’s Sport Trust offers an annual grants scheme and also hold a small Quick Reaction Fund (QRF). The size of grants they have available depend entirely on the amount donated the previous year. In 2013 they will have four tiers of grants available at £500, £1,000, £2,000 and £5,000 which will be awarded on a discretionary basis. (In exceptional circumstances we may consider awarding a grant in excess of £5,000.)

Grants are available to support anything to do with women’s sport. To give you some ideas, here’s a list of the types of things they support:

Kit for a women’s sports club
Training to become a sports coach
Childcare provision
Racing wheelchair
Sports research grant
Venue hire for a women’s powerlifting competition
Sports journalism course
Strength & conditioning coaching
Travel expenses to get to training or competition
Physio fund for an elite level athlete who has lost sponsorship
Tennis or squash court resurfacing

To find out more click here; http://www.womenssporttrust.com/what-grants-are-available/?dm_i=EFR,19ECQ,38P6S3,4B6DE,1

Inspired Facilities Fund

Sport England’s Olympic Legacy fund. Round 4 opens on 4 March and closes on 29 April. This fund 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. Sports Clubs and Groups can apply for £20,000 – £50,000.

To find out more click here; http://inspiredfacilities.sportengland.org/

Funding News

Asset and Services grants for community enterprises

Pre-Feasibility Grants available for amounts of up to £10,000 for organisations to build internal capacity to help them to compete to deliver public services and/or own and manage assets.
These grants can be used to help build management capacity and capability within your organisation e.g. improve your governance and management, support the costs of incorporation or forming consortia and coaching for existing staff to build their abilities to deliver local services and /or manage assets.

Organisations that are likely to be eligible for the grants should be;

looking to take over a building that is of significant value to your community such as a pub or a post office, former schools or sports centres
looking to take deliver a service currently managed by your Local Authority such as a library service, working with youth offenders or landscaping services

Find out more about the grants and to register your interest please visit www.sibgroup.org.uk