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The sports development team have put together a set of guidance notes to help determine the best source of funding for you, your sports club or your organisation.
Below are summaries of the different types of funding available. For more information about each funding stream please select the appropriate heading . For advice about funding or help with the application process please contact the Sports Development Unit, Paul Taylor or John Sturgess on 0115 9013704 or email Paul.Taylor@gedling.gov.uk or John.Sturgess@gedling.gov.uk
Awards for All England is supported by the following agencies Arts Council England, the Big Lottery Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England.
Awards for All is a Lottery Grant Scheme aimed at local communities. They offer grants of between £300 and £10000 towards schemes which encourage people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.
The fund was established at £5 million over a three year period (2006/07 to 2008/09). It aims to provide a stable basis for funding of community development activity, enabling a strategic, longer-term approach which will also help to strengthen communities, tackle disadvantage and ensure better publicly-funded services to local communities.
The Foundation for Sport and the Arts was established in 1991. They channel money donated by Littlewoods Gaming to a wide range of sporting and artistic causes. Since 1991 they have awarded grants worth over £350 million.
The Local Network Fund for Children and Young People enables groups to meet the needs of children and young people aged 0 to 19 through funding, advice and support. The fund was initially set up to run for three years until 2004, with a total budget of £70 million. The Chancellor's 2002 spending review extended it for a further two years until March 2006 with an additional £80 million. The fund is operational throughout the whole of England and will channel money directly to local community and voluntary groups which aim to tackle poverty or disadvantage experienced by children and young people, through a range of projects. Grants of between £250 and £7,000 are available to projects that meet one of its four themes: aspirations and experience; economic disadvantage; isolation and access; and children's voices.
The National Sports Foundation is a Government-led initiative designed to facilitate and encourage partnerships between private investors and community sports projects in England. This is a great opportunity for both investors and community sports organisations to work together to improve the sporting infrastructure of the country.
Sports Aid, at both regional and national levels, provides direct financial assistance to young sportsmen and women, between the ages of 12 and 18, with proven ability so that they can meet the ever increasing and unavoidable cost of their sporting development. For these youngsters, and the families that support them, the promise of help from the Lottery Sports Fund remains a distant dream. Without Sport Aid's assistance, many would simply turn their back on sport, frustrated by a chronic lack of support and depressed by society’s refusal to give them a chance to fulfill their potential.
Sportsmatch can match £ for £ commercial business sponsorship for a grass roots sporting event or activity. Sportsmatch acts as an incentive by offering to double the pot of money available from your sponsor on a £ for £ matching basis. Any not-for-profit group can apply, matching money from any profit-making business. Matching awards are available between £1000 (or £500 for schools/colleges) and £50,000.
Nottinghamshire County Council’s Community Initiative Fund (CIF) is a grant aid scheme aimed at helping local sports clubs and county governing bodies of sport. Awarding grants of any amount up to £1000, funding can be provided for:
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