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Funders index: Sports
- Arthur J C Kendall Memorial Fund
- Bluespark Foundation
- Cash for Clubs
- Cricket Foundation
- Dan Maskell Tennis Trust
- Dickie Bird Foundation
- Football Foundation
- McDonalds Kickstart Grants
- Mike Procter Foundation UK
- Peter Harrison: Opportunities Through Sport
- Ready – sport without boundaries
- Richard Overall Trust
- Rowing Foundation
- Sport England
- Swimathon Foundation
- The Tony Coles Charitable Trust For The Development Of Youth Cricket
- Torch Trophy Trust
- The Lord Taverners Disability Sports Programme
- Youth Sports Trust
Arthur J C Kendall Memorial Fund
Aims to encourage, promote and develop participation in athletics as a means of promoting physical health in the youth (under 21) of the community and to ensure where possible that poverty shall not be a restricting factor in such an involvement.
FFI: http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/PrintReport.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=327356&ReportType=BW
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Blue Spark
Provide funding for projects which aim to improve the education and development of children and young people by means of educational, cultural, sporting or other activities.
FFI: http://bluesparkfoundation.org.uk/
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Cash for 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. Since 2008 over £200,000 has been given out in grants to 294 community sports clubs across the UK. It’s a flexible, no-fuss way to get some help for your club or team.
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.
How to apply: Grants are awarded twice a year and range from £250-1,000. Application forms are available on their website, usually in Autumn each year. Contact Email: cash4clubs@betfair.com or visit Website: http://www.cash-4-clubs.com
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Cricket Foundation
The Cricket Foundation is an independent charity that raises funds to deliver its two cricket programmes: the schools’ cricket programme, ‘Chance to Shine’, and inner-city cricket programme, ‘StreetChance’.
FFI: visit: http://www.chancetoshine.org
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Dan Maskell Tennis Trust
Grants available to help disabled people in the UK to play tennis through the purchase of wheelchairs, tennis equipment and grants for coaching.
http://www.danmaskelltennistrust.org.uk/
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Dickie Bird Foundation
The vision of the Foundation is to assist young people under 16 years of age to participate, to the best of their ability, in the sport of their choice irrespective of their social circumstances, culture or ethnicity and to ensure that, in doing so, they improve their chances both inside and outside sport.
Please note that Grants are payable to disadvantaged children aged under 16 for essential sports equipment. Travel or coaching are not payable. Payment is for individuals therefore teams/groups should not apply.
Football Foundation
Will fund numerous schemes including:
- Premier League and the FA facilities Fund – for refurbishment of grassroots facilities
- Premier League and the FA facilities Fund small grants scheme – up to £10,000 for the provision of capital items or to refurbish existing facilities
- Respect – respect packs and barriers available
- Premier League Primary Stars Kit and Equipment Scheme – high quality football kit and equipment is being made available to primary schools across England and Wales, as the Premier League Primary Stars Kit and Equipment Scheme is opening for applications on Monday 19 February.
How to apply: visit their website for updated information on the above schemes, www.footballfoundation.org.uk
McDonalds Kickstart Grants Community Football
McDonald’s have created a grant scheme for everyone who’s involved in community football. They support grassroots clubs by distributing football kits; supporting volunteers, arranging kick about sessions, celebrating football and supporting accredited clubs.
FFi visit: http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/Sport/Football.html
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Mike Procter Foundation UK
Will fund sporting activities and equipment for young people in Bristol, Bath and Gloucestershire.
Peter Harrison Opportunities through Sport
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
For more information please visit: http://www.peterharrisonfoundation.org/opportunities-through-sport
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Richard Overall Trust
Created in memory of Richard who had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy to help other disabled children and young people enjoy and participate in sport. It provides
funding for specialist sports equipment, training, sports clothes, transport andtickets to sporting events. See http://www.richardoveralltrust.co.uk/
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READY – sport without boundaries
READY raises money to help young people with disabilities play sport and take part in healthy activities for fun and fitness.Over the years they’ve helped hundreds of children with grants for racing wheelchairs, basketball wheelchairs, blind cricket, ramps, prosthetics, seated skis, team kit, racing gloves, specialist hearing aids, gym equipment, swimming lessons, facilities and transport for kids, carers and even ponies!
The grants they make can be truly life changing.
http://readycharity.org/who-we-are/
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Rowing Foundation
The Rowing Foundation is a registered charity. Its purpose is to promote 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-£3,000 to help organisations and clubs involved in on water elements of the sport of Rowing who are individually affiliated to British Rowing (other than via their governing body) and 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.
Funds are limited and statistically the Foundation favours giving grants for equipment that will be used on the water and exclusively for juniors and the disabled of all ages.
FFI: www.therowingfoundation.org.uk
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Sport England
Sport England is committed to the creation of a world-leading community sport environment. This means focusing our investment on organisations and projects that will grow and sustain participation in grassroots sport and create opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport.
In addition to our investment in key partners to deliver specific objectives, we are launching funding programmes open to a wide range of organisations. These include sports clubs, voluntary or community organisations, local authorities, schools, colleges and universities.
The funding programmes are:
- Small Grants- open all year
- Community Asset Fund
- Strategic Facilities
For more information please visit: https://www.sportengland.org/funding/
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Swimathon Foundation
The Swimathon Foundation Community Grants Scheme offers funding to groups and individuals who provide and promote swimming in their local community. The Foundation is passionate about encouraging people to get involved with swimming, which it hopes to encourage even further with its Community Grants.
Grants vary from £500 to £2,500 and will only be awarded to organisations supported by pools that are participating in Swimathon. The grants are administered by Swim England and the Swimming Trust and are awarded on an annual basis.
Applications for 2018 have now closed. If you have any queries about your application, please email swimathongrants@swimming.org and they will endeavour to respond to your question within three working days.
For further information https://swimathonfoundation.org/swimathon-grants/grants-criteria
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The Tony Coles Charitable Trust For The Development Of Youth Cricket
The Tony Coles Charitable Trust For The Development Of Youth Cricket provides grants to individuals and organisations for:
- Education/training
- General charitable purposes
- Amateur sport
- People with disabilities
- Children/young people
Where The Tony Coles Charitable Trust For The Development Of Youth Cricket operates:
- Dorset
- Somerset
- Cornwall
- Devon
Torch Trophy Trust
Bursaries for sports volunteers in the UK wishing to undertake training to improve their skills as coaches or officials.
FFI: http://torchtrophytrust.org/
The Lord Taverners – Disability Sports Programmes
They support sporting and recreational activities for young people with disabilities and special needs:
- Supplying specially adapted minibuses and sports wheelchairs, giving young people vital transportation and access to sport and recreation
- Creating new pathways for their participation, development and competition in sport
- Providing play, sports and sensory equipment
For further information please contact: Nicky Pemberton Head of Foundation Tel: 020 7821 2808 Fax: 020 7821 2829 or visit the website at https://www.lordstaverners.org/what-we-do
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Youth Sports Trust
The renewed package of school sport funding includes £150 million in each of the next two years to deliver PE and sport in primary schools. This will be ring fenced funding – allocated directly to primary schools across England effective from September 2013.
To help you to maximise your primary school sport funding, we have put together a comprehensive guide on what to consider before making your investment decisions and details of how the Youth Sport Trust can support you.
For more information please visit: https://www.youthsporttrust.org/PE-sport-premium
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