Alphabet of Sports Funding. ‘P’ is for…..

Peoples Health Trust

In order to maximise the long-term benefits of their funding they want projects to target those groups most at risk of poor health e.g. older people who are isolated, carers – including young carers, people with learning disabilities, people with dementia and younger people.

They want to help local communities throughout England, Scotland and Wales live longer healthier lives.

They aim to do this by supporting projects that tackle the early causes of ill health. For example, projects that:

improve the health and wellbeing of people
increase physical activity
improve the look and feel of local communities
improve transport within communities

Grant between £5,000 - £10,000

To find out more click here; http://www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/index.php/apply-for-funding/small-grant-programmes?utm_source=Funding+News+email+updates&utm_campaign=17de1db50e-FN_MAILCHIMP_DAILY&utm_medium=email

Peoples Health Trust Active Communities Funding Programme

The Peoples Health Trusts new Active Communities Funding Programme focuses on people living in the poorest neighbourhoods. It is suitable for projects that are: last up to 18 months; are based and operate within one of the of the local society areas; and are run by local charities and community groups with an annual income of less than £200,000 a year.

Grants between £5,000 and £25,000;

To find out more click here; http://www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/index.php/apply-for-funding/the-active-communities-funding-programme

Peoples Postcode Trust

To be eligible for funding, all projects must help in one or more of the following areas;

To prevent poverty
To promote, maintain, improve and advance health.
To advance citizenship or community development.
To advance public participation in sport.
To promote, improve and advance human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation.
To promote and advance environmental protection or improvement.

Grant between £0 - £2,000 (non-Charities) or £0 - £10,000 (Charities)

To find out more click here; http://www.postcodetrust.org.uk/

Peter Harrison Foundation

This Programme is a nationwide one and applications are accepted from charities throughout the United Kingdom. The Trustees wish to support sporting activities or projects which provide opportunities for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged to fulfil their potential and to develop other personal and life skills. Grants will often be “one off” grants for capital projects. We will, however, also consider revenue funding for a new project or if funding is key to the continuing success or survival of an established project.
The Trustees welcome applications for the following types of project;

Projects which provide a focus for skills development and confidence building through the medium of sport
Projects that have a strong training and/or educational theme within the sporting activity
Projects that provide sporting equipment or facilities for disabled or disadvantaged people
Projects with a high degree of community involvement
Projects that help to engage children or young people at risk of crime, truancy or addiction

To find out more click here; http://www.peterharrisonfoundation.org/

Funding Streams

Apply for Community Games Fund

Community Games are a way for you to bring your community together to take part in sporting and cultural activities inspired by – and in celebration of – London 2012 and the Queen’s Jubilee year.

Community Games gives you the chance to be part of the London 2012 official legacy. But it’s also about bringing people together to try new sporting and arts activities and having loads of fun. Perhaps you’d like to do something for the kids at your local school in the summer holidays, or maybe you’d like everyone in your street to get to know each other better. You could organise a Games to celebrate a year since the London 2012 Games or perhaps take advantage of one of the Bank Holiday weekends to make sure this great year doesn’t just pass you by.
Many people have shown that Community Games can be organised for very little cost, and because of this County Sports Partnership across the Country have small pots of funding to offer community groups a grant towards the cost of their event.

In most cases groups just need to complete a short application form, providing details of their event and provide supporting documentation. This is a rolling programme.
To find out more visit your County Sports Partnership website.

Apply for funding for your disability sports club

A grant from the BT/Sunday Telegraph Paralympic Momentum Programme could help your sport club to train a future Paralympian.

Both BT and The Sunday Telegraph have for some time been proud supporters of Paralympic sport and have started the BT/Sunday Telegraph Paralympic Momentum Programme, which will give sports clubs a helping hand.Fifteen awards of £1,000 are available for sports clubs that encourage participation from people with disabilities.

To find out more click here; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/sport/disability-sports-funding/10001712/paralympic-momentum-programme-competition.html

Sport England - Reminders

Inspired Facilities – Round 4 opened 11 March and closes at 5pm on 29 April 2013

Community Sport Activation Fund – Round 2 opens on 7 May and closes on 1 July 2013

Protecting Playing Fields – Round 5 opens 10 June and closes 5 August 2013

To find out more click here; http://www.sportengland.org/funding.aspx

Funding News

Sport England invested an extra £24 million into Sportivate until 2017

With hundreds of thousands of young people having already benefitted, even more 14- to 25-year-olds will have the chance to benefit from Sportivate after Sport England invested an extra £24 million to expand and extend it until 2017.

Newly published figures show almost 190,000 teenagers and young people have benefitted from the successful programme over the last two years, taking part in six-to-eight weeks of sports coaching that is either free or discounted.

To find out more click here; http://www.sportengland.org/about_us/our_news/sport_england_gives_%C2%A324m_boost.aspx

NHS could save £7bn if exercise given increased priority

More than £7bn of savings could be made on the UK’s health spending if each person took the government’s recommended daily amount of exercise.
The findings, from a new report by the London School of Economics and healthcare charity, Nuffield Health, show that 70 per cent of UK adults do not currently meet the target of 150 minutes of exercise a week.

To find out more click here; http://www.funding4sport.co.uk/2013/04/16/nhs-could-save-7bn-if-exercise-given-increased-priority/

Save money through sustainability tool

Everyone knows environmental sustainability is about saving the planet – but, for sports clubs, it can also be about saving money. Those are two good reasons why a sustainability tool has been developed by Sport England in collaboration with their partners at the England and Wales Cricket Board, Lawn Tennis Association, Rugby Football Union, Rugby Football League, England Hockey and the Football Association.

To find out more click here; http://www.funding4sport.co.uk/2013/04/14/save-money-through-sustainability-tool/

New brand to highlight legacy of London 2012

The ‘inspired by 2012’ brand is a new government initiative to bring together the legacy projects inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Diamond Jubilee under a single banner. It will celebrate the success of the projects and help them promote themselves to the public.

To find out more click here; http://www.funding4sport.co.uk/2013/04/10/new-brand-to-highlight-legacy-of-london-2012/

London Marathon charity delivers £4.3 million boost to local sport

The London Marathon Charitable Trust will donate more than £3.5 million to 91 projects in and around the capital, with a further £900,000 going to community legacy facilities after London 2012 during 2013, it revealed today.

This year's work brings the overall sum of grants made by the trust to date to nearly £50 million, helping more than 1,000 projects to build, preserve, refurbish or purchase sports and recreation facilities since the charity was set up in 1981.

Grants of between £7,000 and £250,000 have been awarded this year - the largest is being used to bring disused cricket facilities back into action and the smallest for fitness equipment for a gymnastics club - to help fund a wide variety of sports and recreation projects, including community groups, royal parks, local authorities, grassroots sports clubs, schools and local charities.

To find out more click here; http://www.insidethegames.biz/sports/summer/athletics/1013863-london-marathon-charity-delivers-4-3-million-boost-to-local-sport