Industry
“Every year, hundreds of millions of pounds worth of grants, loans and awards are up for grabs to help clubs to buy new equipment, improve facilities and much, much more”
free of charge.
A completed application form needs to be submitted to your local ECB Development Manager. Application details are available from the Lord’s Taverners website.
Non-turf pitch grants
Applications can be made for grants towards the installation of non-turf pitches, practice ends and nets. Awards do not normally exceed the following levels: Non- turf match pitch - £3,000, Non-turf practice - £2,000, Outdoor nets - £1,000
The scheme is now closed for 2012, but will re-open in October 2012 for 2012 applications.
Bowls Bowls England
Bowls England has introduced a new service to help affiliated clubs and counties to find out more information on local, regional, national and even European funding opportunities.
They use a specialist computer system to generate a comprehensive report for clubs and counties outlining all of the funds they might be eligible for. Clubs and counties will then be able to contact those funding bodies to process an application.
Contact Development Officer Alistair Hollis on 07765 050408 for more details on this service.
Bowls England Greens Maintenance Advisory Service
While it doesn’t offer any financial benefits, what it does do is offer technical assistance and advice to clubs and ground staff.
This assistance is delivered through a network of regional coordinators and county representatives who, by reason of
their work experience and involvement in green maintenance work, can provide a useful bank of local knowledge.
Details are available on the Bowls England website.
Tennis Community Tennis Association
The Community Tennis Association (CTA) is established as a non-profit-making Community Interest Company, with the aim to promote affordable tennis within local communities.
It specialises in supporting local authorities, local tennis clubs and tennis professionals by providing a wide range of products that are proven to rapidly increase tennis participation at a grassroots level.
The best source for tennis related funding is British Tennis and the LTA’s grant finder on its website, which allows you to choose individual or club level funding across all the regions of England, Wales and Scotland.
Football The Football Foundation
Aside from local authority and region specific funds, the primary funder for all grassroots football is through the Football Foundation.
The Football Foundation is the UK’s largest sports’ charity. Funded by the Premier League, The Football Association and the Government, it directs £30m every year into grass-roots football.
The Foundation provides grants for a number of different projects.
Their Facilities scheme provides money to
develop new or improve facilities for community benefit. These include changing rooms or clubhouses, grass or artificial pitches and multi-use games areas.
Small grants for small facilities projects are available via the Foundation’s Build the Game scheme, which aims to assess applications to this scheme much more quickly than applications for large facility grants.
Money is also available via the Grow the Game project, designed for small projects that aim to increase participation by both players and volunteers in grass roots football by supporting the costs associated with providing the new activity.
The Football Stadia Improvement Fund
The Football Stadia Improvement Fund provides money for clubs in the Football League and the National League System down to step 7 and below who want to improve their facilities.
Rugby RFU (Rugby Football Union)
The majority of national funds available are administered through the RFU via a number of schemes, either run solely by them or in conjunction with one of its private sector partners.
Essentially, funding falls into two categories: revenue support and capital support. Revenue funding covers people and programme, whilst capital funding is for facilities and equipment. Whether you want to upgrade your pitch, acquire a top coach, install floodlights, get some kit for the under-14 XV or renovate the home dressing room, the RFU can help with funding stream suggestions.
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