Grant Funding For UK Sports Clubs

Grant funding for UK sports clubs and individuals, including equipment, facilities, kit and local and community football and other sports and projects

Grant Funding For UK Sports Clubs

A selection of grant funding for UK sports clubs and individuals, including facilities, equipment, projects and local and community football teams. Use the Funding Finder grant directory Sports search category to find far more funding for your sports club. You can also use Help Finder to find donated sports equipment and kit, items for raffles, and funding from local companies.

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Grant For Sports Clubs - UK Wide Funding

Groundwork - One Stop Community Partnership Programme	An initial grant of up to £1,000. This programme is designed to support community groups or clubs operating within two miles of a One Stop store, including running youth sports teams. Apply at any time.
Alpkit Foundation	Support grass-roots direct action projects that tackle issues such as participation, education, and health & well-being. Trustees meet every 2 months. They say they've donated £0.5m to 1800 projects so far.
JAZZ™ Apple Foundation	Grant fundi8ng to support the next generation of young people in the UK, and of sports and physical exercise, ranging from junior football teams to dance and ballet clubs.
Hedley Foundation	Small UK registered charities working with young people in the areas of recreation, sport, training, health and welfare, support and outdoor education. Usually, grants up to £5,000. Smaller charities often benefit from smaller grants of £250 upwards. The Trustees meet four times pa.
Ron Pickering Memorial Fund	They invite applications from sports athletes of national standard, aged 15 – 23 and also invite Para athletes of the same age who have a national para classification to apply.
Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust	Projects that allow disadvantaged young people in the UK to take up opportunities to develop an existing interest in the great outdoors and outdoor activities.
Angus Irvine Playing Fields Fund	To increase opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas of the UK to play sport. Fundamental is a passion for maximising resources for grassroots sport, helping volunteers develop community sports facilities and enabling team sports to reach many more disadvantaged young people.
William Waites Memorial Trust	Non profit organisations engaging young people (5 to 19 years old) through sports, arts and education for projects primarily in London and the SE. Generally, grants are around £30,000 over 3 years.
Van Neste Foundation	Grant funding for children and young people for a variety of areas, including sport. Assess grant applications three times a year, typically January, June and October.
Little Lives UK	To support children’s groups and organisations, such as play groups or sports clubs. Grants up to £2,000, no minimum.
Hargreaves Foundation	Those under the age of 18, and with a mental health condition, disability, or growing up in poverty, the opportunity to fulfil their potential – education and sport. Will fund equipment.
Peter Harrison Foundation	UK registered charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs running sports projects for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged. Opportunities through Sport, Special Needs and Care for Children and Young People and Opportunities through Education. Preference for SE England. Will fund capital projects, such as club facilities.
Lord Taveners	Helping young people to take part in sport and recreation, through the continued expansion of programmes and investment in facilities and equipment.
Barbara Ward Children's Foundation	Grant funding for projects for severely disadvantaged children and young people anywhere in the world in a variety of areas, including sport, play and leisure.
Tesco Stronger Starts	Schools can to apply for funding via Groundwork for a grant of up to £1,500 towards activities providing food to pupils and for equipment for outdoor and indoor activities, such as sports.
Little Lives UK - Children's Community Support Programme	To support children’s groups and organisations, such as play groups or sports classes. Grants up to £1500.
Dickie Bird Foundation	Individuals throughout Great Britain to help disadvantaged young people (under the age of 16) to participate in the sport of their choice. Up to £500 for essential sports equipment and clothing.
Youth Hostel Association’s Breaks Programme	YHA offers targeted bursary and funding support. Available to groups of young people, groups of families, charities, community groups and home education networks that are struggling to meet the costs of a residential.

UK National Sports Grant Funding Bodies

There are four primary sports bodies that have responsibility for promoting grassroots sport clubs in each UK country. Each offers a range of grant funding for different purposes and closing dates, so it's best to visit their website - Sport England, Sport Scotland, Sport Wales, and Sport Northern Ireland.

The National Lottery also offers a wide range of grants. For grass roots sports in the community and if you've never applied before, the Awards for All grants offers up to £20,000. This link is to the English version but other countries have their own.

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Help Finder - Grant Funding for Sports Clubs

Our Help Finder directory has 20 search categories but you can search using 'sport' in its key word search to find those that provide grants to sports clubs and funding for local community sport. Here are a few of these.

Barclays Bank	Community Football Fund - grants to local community sports clubs to make football more accessible to young people.
J D Sports	Partnerships with a number of small charities each year to support those working with disadvantaged young people in the UK. From mental health to homeless charities, through events like JD takeover youth club days, as well as team building, mentoring and fundraising.
Lord Tavenors - Sports Kit Recycling	Their sports kit recycling programme collects usable kit from across the UK through a network of local ‘collection hubs’. It's redistributed to partner organisations within the UK and around the world.
Professional Footballers Association	Distribute free sports equipment to every Club Community Organisations (CCO) in the English Football League (EFL). Every EFL CCO is offered a Sports Equipment Pack, which is delivered once each season by Sports Directory on behalf of sportsdirect.com.

It can also find other support for sports clubs.

NSPCC	Online self-assessment tools for safeguarding children in sport
Sported	Free membership body for those using sport to transform the lives of young people. Mentoring, resources, webinars etc

Grant Funding For Sports Clubs - Football

Barclays Community Football Fund	Grants of £500 for clubs wishing to start offering football, those keen to expand their existing provision to new audiences or those already delivering football to under-represented young people. Applications are welcome from all types of organisations including football clubs, community groups, youth groups and charities. No deadline.
Football Player Foundations	UK Funding Finder - some elite sports people have their own foundations. The link is a PFA list of some of the football ones.
Jordan Sinnott Foundation Trust	Launched in memory of the young football player. To support small grassroots sports clubs, that are registered charities, Community Amateur Sports Clubs or other non-profits, through grants of up to £5,000 to pay for equipment, transport and kit to help engage vulnerable or disadvantaged people with sport. Children and young adults facing barriers, can apply for individual grants up to £2,000 to help them participate in sport. No deadline.
National League Trust	Supports community programmes with grants at clubs who are members of the three divisions of the National Football League. Work with disadvantaged and minority groups, new football activity, such as women and girls teams, keep fit or activity classes and other work related areas. Minimum grant is £5000. Seem to be 3 funding deadlines annually.
Utilita Energy High 5 - Grass Roots Football	It’s no nonsense, no strings attached support for grassroots football clubs. It’s easy to apply and they make decisions quickly. No amounts, no deadlines. Head office in Hampshire.

Grant Funding - Other Sports

Love Rowing	Grants £500 – £3000 for rowing clubs, schools and community organisations for for projects which benefit Love Rowing’s core areas of focus. May fund equipment.
Rowing Foundation	Rowing in Britain with preference for encouraging participation in rowing by the young and disabled, through the provision of equipment. Grants from £500 up to £3k.
Canoe Foundation	Clubs, community groups and regions with an active interest in, and project purpose of, wider canoeing participation. Grants £500 - £10k.
Dan Maskell Tennis Trust	UK disabled people to play tennis through the purchase of wheelchairs, tennis equipment and grants for coaching.

Grant Funding For Disability Sport

Here are some grant makers for disability sport. The Funding Finder grants directory, also has a search categories for Disability and Buildings & Equipment.

Hargreaves Foundation	Those under the age of 18, and with a mental health condition, disability, or growing up in poverty, the opportunity to fulfil their potential – education and sport. Will fund equipment. No minimum or maximum grant size.
Richard Overall Trust	To advance the physical education of disabled young people in their chosen sport. Examples include, specialist sports equipment, training, instructors and the use of gymnasiums, track suits or footwear, transport including fares or the hire of a specialist vehicle, or the purchase of tickets to sporting events.
Peter Harrison Foundation	UK registered charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs running sports projects for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged. Opportunities through Sport, Special Needs and Care for Children and Young People and Opportunities through Education. Preference for SE England. Will fund capital projects.
Bruce Wake Charitable Trust	Leisure activities for the disabled - potential beneficiaries are physically disabled wheelchair users, or improved access for wheelchair users is proposed or a sporting or leisure activity involving disabled wheelchair users is proposed. Charities, non-profits and individuals.