The Movement Fund tries to be flexible to support the costs you need to help people get active. Any funding requested must be used directly to deliver your project.
We can fund
We will typically fund costs which enable you to pay for:
- coaches and sessional workers
- training and development
- facility hire
- equipment
- creation of new, or upgrade to existing, facilities
- volunteer expenses
- costs to manage and coordinate your project’s delivery. These costs must be new to the project and can’t exceed 10% of your award.
We cannot fund
There are costs that we can’t fund:
- costs you are committed to paying already, including salaries for existing staff, rent and utilities
- facility hire of your own spaces
- costs that are not for direct delivery; for example, project development (such as feasibility or consultation costs), project evaluation and/or unexplained or contingency costs
- costs you have already incurred; this could be retrospective costs – those owed from before the date on the award letter, or costs from projects that started before we made our offer to you
- costs that include funding another organisation; for example, distribution of grants on our behalf – you can't use our funds to make grants to other organisations
- costs for the benefit of an individual, such as purchases for personal or private gain, including personal items of equipment and clothing
- costs someone else is already funding; for example, any costs covered by another source of funding – you must declare all sources of funding for your project in your application
- we also cannot provide funding for recoverable VAT or cash purchases.