Funding for Sport

There are various funding streams and opportunities open to Sports people in the borough. Details of some of the current funding available can be found below. 

• FA and Shared Access light up football
• Funding 4 Sports Top 80 Sports Funding Streams for 2012
• Sport Relief Community Cash Fund
• Hampshire Talented Athlete Scheme
• Swimathon Foundation
• Financial Assistance for Talented Young People in Sport
• Young Coach Scholarships
• Return to Sport Fund
• Barclays Community Sports Award
• Awards for All
• External Funding Mailing List
• Community Action Team

FA and Shared Access light up football

A bright opportunity for local football clubs

The FA have formed an exciting partnership with Shared Access – a leading telecoms infrastructure company - in an £30m programme to provide selected grassroots clubs across England with new or improved floodlighting systems.

By providing local football clubs with new or improved floodlighting facilities, Shared Access can also extend the broadband opportunities and mobile phone coverage through state-of-the-art wireless technology housed in floodlight columns.

This joint initiative will benefit hundreds of clubs and at the same time, open up new communications channels in urban and rural communities throughout England. New and improved floodlighting schemes will directly support The FA’s National Game Strategy objectives.

The scheme will target hundreds of clubs across England so for more information on the project read our FAQS below or to register your interest click here and complete the online form (this is an external hyperlink).

For further information please visit http://www.thefa.com/sharedaccess (this is an external hyperlink).

Funding 4 Sports Top 80 Sports Funding Streams for 2012

Below are the 30 of the Top 80 Sports Funding Streams that Funding 4 Sport believes you should consider in 2012 if you are looking for funding for your club, project or organisation see the funding streams below;

1. GLL Sport Foundation (this is an external hyperlink)
2. Football Foundation; Grow the Game (this is an external hyperlink)
3. Tesco Charity Trust (this is an external hyperlink)
4. Awards for All (this is an external hyperlink)
5. Torch Trophy Trust Bursaries (this is an external hyperlink)
6. Sport England’s Sportsmatch (this is an external hyperlink)
7. Sport England’s - Iconic Facilities (this is an external hyperlink)
8. Sport England Protecting Playing Fields (this is an external hyperlink)
9. Sport England Small Grants (this is an external hyperlink)
10. Comic Relief Community Grants – Sport for Change (this is an external hyperlink)
11. Peoples Postcode Trust (this is an external hyperlink)
12. Football Foundation – Facilities Grants (this is an external hyperlink)
13. Big Lottery – Reaching Communities (this is an external hyperlink)
14. Community Spaces (this is an external hyperlink)
15. The Co-operative Membership Community Fund (this is an external hyperlink)
16. H.B. Allen Charitable Trust (this is an external hyperlink)
17. Percy Bilton Charity (this is an external hyperlink)
18. Cash 4 Clubs (this is an external hyperlink)
19. Foyle Foundation (this is an external hyperlink)
20. Garfield Weston Foundation (this is an external hyperlink)
21. Santander Foundation (this is an external hyperlink)
22. Sportivate - Visit your County Sports Partnership website (this is an external hyperlink)
23. Adventure Capital Fund (this is an external hyperlink)
24. BBC Children in Need (this is an external hyperlink)
25. The Princes Trust (this is an external hyperlink)
26. Allen Lane Foundation (this is an external hyperlink)
27. Hedley Foundation (this is an external hyperlink)
28. Lloyds TSB Foundation (this is an external hyperlink)
29. Land Aid Grants (this is an external hyperlink)
30. ASDA Foundation (this is an external hyperlink)
31. Mars Refuel

To view the complete list of the 80 funding streams including full details of each grant subscribe to the Funding 4 Sport website today from as little as £4.99. Visit www.funding4sport.co.uk.

Sport Relief Community Cash Fund

Hampshire & IOW Community Foundation and Sport Relief Community Cash have announced that they have opened a fund to distribute £50,000 in grants of between £500 and £1,000 to local charities and community groups working in disadvantaged or deprived areas of Southampton, Winchester, Eastleigh, New Forest, Gosport, Fareham and the Isle of Wight

To find out more information about the grant including criteria and guidelines and to apply, go to the Hampshire & IOW Community Foundation Team website (this is an external link).

This grant is being managed by the Hampshire & IOW Community Foundation Team so if you have any queries please contact them 01256 776101, info@hantscf.org.uk.      

Hampshire Talented Athlete Scheme (HTAS)

Hampshire County Council, in partnership with Southampton City Council, provide support services to help Hampshire’s most talented athletes reach world class podiums. Support is based on performance levels and can include

• Monetary grants up to £500
• Free access to participating leisure centres
• Fast track physiotherapy care at Basingstoke and Southampton hospitals
• Free bus travel cards from Stagecoach, Bluestar and First Group
• Annual sport science conference at Southampton Solent University
• Advice to schools on mentoring support

The scheme is open to

• Hampshire residents including the 13 local borough and district councils together with Portsmouth and Southampton city councils.
• Athletes aged over 11 years.
• Athletes competing in HTAS supported sports
• Athletes competing at the correct level

For further information please visit the HTAS website (this is an external hyperlink).

Swimathon Foundation

The Swimathon Foundation offers grants to organisations which intend to encourage more people to enjoy swimming and / or improve accessibility for people who want to swim in the UK.

Grants of between £300 and £2,500 are available to eligible organisations such as:

• swimming pools;
• community groups and organisations;
• charities; 
• swimming clubs;
• older people's organisations;
• youth groups;
• sports clubs;
• scout troops; and
• healthy living groups.

Applicants must have the support of a pool participating in Swimathon.

Activities supported may include the following:

• Fundraising events, galas or family fun days at a pool;
• Community pool 'open days';
• Extra floats for a swimming club to improve swimmers' development;
• Transport costs to take an elderly group to a pool;
• Entrance fees for a scout group to a swimming pool;
• Club scuba diving equipment to allow more people to try the sport; 
• Costs for an extra staff member to supervise a swimming trip so that more children can attend.
   

For further information please visit the Swimathon website (this is an external hyperlink).

Financial Assistance for Talented Young People in Sport

This fund is made available by Hampshire County Council to ensure that young people are not denied the opportunity to participate at a representative level in sport through financial assistance. This grant is only accessible by residents of the administrative county of Hampshire. For an application pack, please contact Carole Warmington, Service Manager, Outdoor Education and Sport, Clarendon House, Monarch Way, Winchester, SO22 5PW, or telephone 01962 876219, email carole.warmington@hants.gov.uk.

Young Coach Scholarships

Hampshire County Council's new online young coach scholarship scheme is now open for applications. The aim of the scheme is to financially support young leaders in gaining Level 1 qualifications. The support is aimed at candidates who are resident in Hampshire and IOW and are currently on the step into sport programme at their school/college. If their application is successful we will fund up to 100% to a maximum of £150 per candidate. The applications will require endorsement from Lead Officers, which need to be either FESCO's, SSCO's, PDM's or Tutors/Lecturers to be sure that we are funding the students who will put their qualifications to good use.

For further information please the Young Coach Scholarship webpage (this is an external hyperlink).

 
Return to sport funding

Are you a club or group who is looking for more members over the age of 16? If so, the Return to Sport Fund could be for you. Funded by Sport England community investment fund, Hampshire County Council and Sport Hampshire and IOW, the Return to Sport programme has been developed to encourage participation, getting adults back into sport or starting out for the first time. We aim to promote exercise as a fun and social activity, as well as a way to get fit or to lose weight.

You can apply for up to £500 per project; this money must be spent providing high quality sessions over an 8 - 10 week period at a reduced rate to the participant. At the end of the course there must be an activity in place to follow-on to, this may be a club or pay and play session.

Each course must be supported with follow-on opportunities or exit route and funding can be used for:

• hire of facilities
• purchasing equipment
• coaches costs
• publicity

For more information please visit the Sport Hampshire and IOW website (this is an external hyperlink) or email heather.windust@hants.gov.uk.

Barclays Community Sports Award

Barclays Community Sports Award (this is an external hyperlink) are giving £1000 each month to a community individual/organisation/sports club that uses sport to benefit communities. The individual/organisation/sport club cannot nominate themselves so this is a great opportunity for you to nominate the clubs which carry out fantastic work in your sport/LA, especially those that have gained Clubmark. Further details and the online application form can be found on the Barclays Community Sports Award website (this is an external hyperlink).

Awards For All

Awards for All, England offers grants of between £300 and £10,000 for projects that improve communities, and the lives of people within them. It is for voluntary and community groups, schools and health organisations, parish and town councils. For further information and to apply please visit the Awards for all website (this is an external hyperlink).

External Funding Mailing List

Hampshire County Council has an external mailing list which you can sign up to. Please visit www.ehampshire.org (this is an external hyperlink) to get the latest funding information.

Community Action Team 

As part of the Community Action Teams, Fareham Borough Council has made funding available to support community based projects.

For further information please contact the Community Action team via email: cats@fareham.gov.uk or telephone 01329 236100.