New Funding Opportunities for your club???
With funding very much on everyone’s mind, and the current climate restricting our traditional funding pots, there is one thing that we are all doing that has resulting in more money becoming available……..we are buying lottery tickets. This has resulted in Sport England introducing 3 different funding schemes available to grassroots clubs.
Small Grants: The Sport England Small Grants Programme uses lottery funding to make awards of between £300 and £10,000 to not-for-profit organisations to deliver new community projects to either grow or sustain participation in sport or to support talent development.
Sportsmatch: The Sportsmatch scheme makes awards to not-for-profit organisations that have secured sponsorship to deliver new community projects to grow or sustain participation in sport. Using money from the government, the scheme encourages new sponsorship of grassroots community sport. Priority is given to applications seeking to match sponsorship from the commercial sector. Awards of between £1,000 and £100,000 can be made to match funding from no more than five sponsors, with each sponsor contributing a minimum of £1,000.
Protection of Playing Fields Fund: The programme aims to fund capital projects that create, develop and improve playing fields for sporting and community use and offer long term protection of the site for sport. Projects are likely to involve the construction of new pitches or improvement of existing ones that need leveling or drainage works.
For more information on these funds, please visit the Sport England website – www.sportengland.org.uk