Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund
The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) is intended to fund projects which reduce the impact of past, present and future aggregates extraction and also to reduce the need for primary aggregates extraction. The Countryside Agency is one of the distributors and the most likely to fund a sports project. It is interested in projects that have landscape, community, informal recreation or amenity benefits.
Two initial conditions MUST be satisfied for a project to be eligible for ALSF funding:
- That there is an impact on the local area or community that results directly from aggregates extraction and its associated activities
- That the proposed project reduces that impact
More detailed guidelines and an application can be downloaded from the web site or by calling 01476 584821.
Barclays Spaces for Sport
Barclays Spaces for Sport is a partnership between Barclays, The Football Foundation and Groundwork. Over 100 sports sites will be created across the UK every year during the three year £30m programme. It is however not an open application process. Groundwork UK will work with their trusts, plus other agencies to identify potential projects. However to complement the facility development, a Free Coaching Kit scheme has been set up and this has an open application process.
Each kit pack will include generic equipment bibs, training cones, whistles, stopwatches, first aid kits, coach jackets etc. 1200 kits will be distributed each year. Priority will be given to groups or teams in disadvantaged areas.
To find out if you are eligible to apply please contact The Football Foundation on 0800 0274221 or email enquiries@spacesforsports.org.uk.
Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs)
Amateur sports clubs who do not wish to apply for charitable status can now apply for a package of tax reliefs available direct from the Inland Revenue.
In order to qualify, your club must:
- Be open to the whole community
- Be organised on an amateur basis
- Have as its main purpose providing facilities for, and promoting participation in, one or more eligible sports
As of 1 April 2004, the package gave mandatory rate relief of 80% to registered clubs, as well as tax relief on:
- Fund-raising income up to £30,000
- Income from interest
- Rental income up to £20,000
- Capital gains tax on disposals
- Gift Aid on donations from individual donors
- Inheritance tax on gifts of assets or trading stock
Click on the link above to see the Inland Revenue website for more information about whether your club could qualify, model constitutions and to download the relevant application forms and guidance notes.
Community Club Development Programme
This is an innovative collaboration between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Sport England and National Governing Bodies (NGB's).
In very simple terms the NGB's for 16 sports put forward club based projects for capital support. The funds are provided by the government and Sport England manages their distribution.
The programme has been extended for a further two years from April 2006 to March 2008, and NGB's will be identifying priority projects for the second phase. The NGB's have different approaches to identify their strategic projects to support via this funding. Any club that falls under the remit of the NGB's listed below should contact their governing body directly to find out more about how they will select projects for support. It is likely they will be looking for:
- Projects which provide enhanced facilities for sports at clubs with inadequate existing provision
- Projects which are demonstrably linked to other NGB priority development work e.g. volunteering, coaching talent development and club/school links
- Projects serving clusters (e.g. through a Beacon club infrastructure) meeting the needs of several clubs/sports
- Clubs able to provide the greatest sporting and community benefit in terms of contributing to improved health, community cohesion, crime prevention etc.
Dickie Bird Foundation
The foundation aims to help disadvantaged young people, nationwide, to participate in sport. Its objective is:
"To provide or assist the provision of facilities which enable young people in schools, universities and other educational establishments, local clubs and community groups to participate in sporting activities in the interests of healthy recreation or the advancement of physical education".
- Grants are for individuals or groups.
- Individuals or groups members must be under 18 years of age at the time of making the application.
- Grants will only be considered if the individual or group is unable to raise the necessary finance required as a result of impoverished circumstances.
The application form can be downloaded from the web site or by contacting 07759 767489. Email: info@thedickiebirdfoundation.org
egg Developing Local Talent Fund
egg is the internet bank based in Derby. It runs the egg in the community programme and has identified sport as one of its four priorities for this programme.
- Project must be located within 25 miles of Derby
- Aim of the scheme must be the development of local talent
- Project must involve the use of people who work for egg.
Rugby and football projects that they have supported in Derby have included training up egg staff in coaching qualifications to help deliver the project. Application forms can be downloaded from the web site.
Funder Finder
A software search engine for grant seekers.
Government funding website
This new funding web site provides direct access to grants from key Government departments for the voluntary and community sector.
Heart Research UK
The Healthy Hearts grants programme aims to support lifestyle interventions in communities to prevent or reduce the risk factors of heart disease. Grants of up to £10,000 are awarded to community groups and voluntary organisations.
Applications are accepted during January and February, or July and August only, for funding rounds in May and November. For more information call the Fund's Lifestyle Officer on 0113 297 6206.
Local Authorities
Local Authorities may have small pots of funding available for talented athletes and to support coaching qualifications. Check with your local authority’s department of leisure, recreation or sport to find out what if any funding resources are available to individuals in your area. The 46 East Midlands local authority web sites are listed on the East Midlands Regional Assembly website.
Local Investment Fund
National and regional loan funds have been set up including one in the East Midlands. Loans are available:
- For social and community enterprises
- From the national pot between £25,000 – £250,000
- From the regional pot between £15,000 - £100,000
- More likely to support regeneration type projects where sport is one of the elements as opposed to applications from sports clubs
Contact 020 7680 1028 for more information on the National fund, or 01332 553209 for the East Midlands regional fund.
Lord's 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.
Their annual disbursement of grant aid is broken down in the following way:
- 50% to encourage youth cricket in clubs and schools,
- 35% to fund specially adapted minibuses,
- 15% to fund sport and recreation opportunities for young people with special needs.
All applications must fall within their guidelines and be presented on the appropriate application forms. Applications for cricket grants are ONLY available from the Cricket Development Officer at the local county ground. All other application forms are available from The Lord's Taverners on 0207 821 2808 or can be downloaded from the web site.
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:
- 2012 Kids - getting more children and young people playing sport
- Women into Sport - involving more women in playing sport
- Fit for Sport - investment in clubs, coaches and volunteers in local communities.
The Foundation is actively seeking projects that fit these criteria. However, this is not an exhaustive list and any project that benefits community sport will be considered for match funding.
You must be able to provide £50,001 of new sponsorship money from a commercial or private investor towards your project. For each £1 that you secure from a commercial or private sponsor, the Foundation will match it £ for £ up to the maximum cost of your project (if your application is successful).
You can email the Foundation for further information on investment opportunities, funding applications or any other related issues, or call 0845 6036069.
Nottingham East Midlands Airport - Community Fund
The Nottingham East Midlands Airport Community Fund aims to support schemes that boost the quality of life for local people. The Community Fund is open to projects and organisations within a 10-mile radius of the airport.
To qualify for consideration, projects should meet one or more of the Fund’s objectives, which are:
- Bringing the community closer together through facilities for sport, recreation and other leisure time activities
- Environmental improvement and heritage conservation
- Improving awareness of environmental issues through environmental education
- Encouraging and protecting wildlife
See the web site to apply online.
ProHelp
ProHelp is a national network of professional groups offering free support to voluntary and community groups.
- Professionals represented on ProHelp groups include architects, structural surveyors, quantity surveyors, lawyers, etc.
- ProHelp groups have been set up in Derbyshire; High Peak and Derbyshire Dales; Leicestershire; Lincolnshire and Rutland; Northamptonshire; and Nottinghamshire.
- Community requests for professional assistance are brokered through Business in the Community (BITC).
- Priority is generally given to projects in areas of deprivation
Telephone BITC East Midlands on 0115 924 7400.
Ron Pickering Memorial Fund
For young people involved in athletics. Applicants must be aged between 15 and 23 years and still in education, All-England Schools finalists or at County representative level and above. Grants are for financial assistance towards training or provision of equipment. For more information and to download an application form, see the website.
Rugby Football Foundation
The Rugby Football Foundation (RFF) 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 RFF has two capital funding streams:
Groundmatch Grant Scheme: The Ground Match Scheme provides easy-to-access grant funding for playing projects which contribute to the recruitment and retention of community rugby players. At this stage, the maximum available grant is £6,000 and the minimum £1,500. Grants will be available on the basis of “matching” clubs’ own funds (internally or externally generated) on a 50 : 50 basis. Clubs may only apply for one grant per project and are eligible for only one grant per financial year (i.e. per season).
Interest Free Loan Scheme: This scheme provides loans to clubs to help finance capital projects which contribute to the recruitment and retention of community rugby players. The maximum loan available is £100,000 and the minimum is £1500.
Loans will be interest free with the maximum loan period being 15 years.
Further Information and application forms for these two schemes can be found on their website.
Sports Aid
Sports Aid give grants to young people (12 - 18 years old) who are members of national squads from 55 able bodied and 25 disabled sports. Applications for this funding must be made through the appropriate governing body.
Grants are distributed to help with costs of travel, training or equipment and range from £250 to £500. Listed below are those sports which Sports Aid fund. NB. Some have more than one discipline e.g. Skating includes figure and ice.
Key – (A) able bodied (D) disabled
Archery (A &D)
Athletics (A & D)
Badminton (A & D)
Baseball (A)
Basketball (A & D)
Bobsleigh (A)
Boccia (D)
Bowls (D)
Boxing (A)
Canoeing (A & D)
Cricket (A)
Curling (A)
Cycling (A & D)
Cyclo Cross (A)
Equestrian (A & D)
Fencing (A & D)
Football - Women (A & D)
Goalball (D) |
Golf (A)
Gymnastics (A)Handball (A)
Hockey (A)
Judo (A & D)
Karate (A)
Luge (A)
Modern Pentathlon (A)
Mountain Biking (A)
Netball (A)
Orienteering (A)
Powerlifting (D)
Racketball (D)
Roller Hockey (A)
Roller Skating (A)
Rowing (A) Rugby League (A)
Rugby Union (A)
Sailing (D
|
Shooting (A & D)
Skating (A)
Skiing (A & D)
Snooker (D)
Softball (A)
Squash (A)
Swimming (A & D)
Table Tennis (A & D)
Tae-kwon-do (A)
Tennis (A & D)
Trampolining (A)
Volleyball (A & D)
Waterskiing (A & D)
Weightlifting (A)
Wheelchair Rugby (D)
Wrestling (A)
Yachting (A & D) |
Further information is available from the web site or by calling 020 7273 1975.
Sport England Technical Guidance Notes
Technical Guidance Notes are free to download and cover: Access for Disabled People; Athletics; Car Parking and Landscaping; Floors for Indoor Sports; Project Management in the Voluntary Sector; Natural Turf for Sport; Pavilions and Clubhouses; Sports Hall Design, Size and Layout; Village and Community Halls and Design Specifications for Multi Use Games Areas and Artificial Turf Pitches, together with further information on the available ‘Running Sport’ resources.
Swimathon Foundation
The Swimathon Foundation was established in 2001 to help Swimathon swimmers and pools become more directly involved with the way their sponsorship money is spent.
As an independent charitable trust, The Foundation provides funding for smaller, local charities and other not-for-profit organisations, which benefit the health and well being of people in the UK.
Grants of up to £5,000 are on offer, with new projects aimed at helping the greatest number of people being the most likely beneficiaries. All groups and charities applying for funding through this programme must do so in partnership with their nearest Butlins Swimathon Pool. A one-off annual grant of up to £100,000 is also on offer for a UK-wide project. Application criteria and further information is available on the website.
Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme
The Talented Athletes Scholarship Scheme (TASS) is a new government initiative designed to help talented athletes who wish to progress with a formal academic programme but maintain an involvement in performance sport. There are 47 sports that are eligible for TASS, of which 15 are disability sports. A full list is available on the web site.
Awards of up to £3000 are available for athletes aged 16 to 24 (extended upper age limit of 35 for scholar with a disability) who are undertaking an educational programme.
Primarily National Governing Bodies select athletes for a TASS award although TASS athletes are also identified from other sources, including nominations to governing bodies from schools, colleges, and universities.
Further information available from the website or by calling 0191 2437356.
UK Sport - Get Sponsored!
The purpose of this website is to help guide talented individuals through the process of seeking and securing personal sponsorship.