Funding
Advanced Learning Loans for Level 3 or 4 courses
£300
Apply for a 24+ Advanced Learning Loan to help with the costs of a course at a college or training provider if you’re 24 or older. The course must be an eligible Level 3 or 4 course. Courses are paid for by a loan scheme, for which monthly re-payments are due only when you are earning over £21,000 per annum.
Budweiser Club Futures
£50,000 to £100,000
The programme aims to help clubs become more financially sustainable and play a bigger role in their local community. This is aimed at Football Clubs (non –league clubs in steps 5-7) with funding available between £50,000 to £100,000.
Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASC)
This HM Revenue & Customs website outlines tax-break opportunities for community sports clubs.
Interest Free Loans
up to £100,000
Rugby Football Foundation’s Interest Free Loan scheme provides up to £100,000 in an interest free loan to capital works to clubs at level 4 and below.
Wells Sports Foundation
£500 to £2,000
Grants from £500 - £2,000 available for coaching & umpiring qualifications through your sports club to support development of children & young people.
The National Hockey Foundation
£10,000 to £75,000
Grants of £10,000 - £75,000 available to organisations to grow hockey at youth or community level.
The Shared Access Scheme
Free floodlights for local football clubs which will also house wireless antennae to enable broadband coverage.
Woodward Charitable Trust
£100 to £5,000
Small grants, between £100-£5,000 (around 100 grants made per year) for social inclusion projects. Prospective applicants should be aware that less than 15% of the applications received are successful.
North Norfolk Big Society Fund
The Big Society Fund is provided by North Norfolk District Council to help build strong communities in the district. It aims to help communities to develop new and innovative projects which will improve their social and economic wellbeing.
Yapp Charitable Trust
up to £3,000
Make grants for running costs and salaries to small registered charities in England and Wales to help sustain their existing work.
Sport England - Community Asset Fund
£1,000 to £150,000
Sport England's Community Asset Fund is a programme dedicated to enhancing the spaces in your local community that give people the opportunity to be active. There are a number of things that they want to achieve with this funding, but most importantly they want to help local organisations to create quality and financially sustainable facilities that benefit their community for years to come – which may mean providing help to get things up and running too.
Barchester Charity Foundation - Reconnecting Disabled people with Local Community
£100 to £5,000
Barchester’s Charitable Foundation is a registered charity that helps older people and other adults with a disability across England, Scotland & Wales. This year our focus is about connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community. Applications that combat loneliness and enable people to be active and engaged will receive our highest priority in 2019.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Work Grant
£10,000 to £60,000
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) has a grant fund of £25m a year until 2021 and £4m a year has been set aside for projects focused on helping marginalised young people. Youth work organisations can apply to two new funds - a Youth Fund and a Growth Fund. The Youth Fund will provide grants of between £10,000 and £60,000 to go towards core operating costs.
Birmingham and Black Country Communities Fund
up to £2,000
Birmingham and Black Country Communities Fund grants are awarded from the earnings of a number of endowment funds, which are created from contributions by individuals, companies and trusts and managed by Heart of England Community Foundation.
Sport for Change Coach Funding
Full funding is available for coaching qualifications as part of a Sport for Change project in the Lakenham and Tuckswood area of Norwich.
The Eveson Charitable Trust
up to £15,000
The Eveson Charitable Trust is a regional Trust that only funds registered charities that are delivering projects that benefit people living in the West Midlands. In their eyes the West Midlands is classed as Herfordshire, Worcestershire, Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall.
Captain Scott Society - Spirit of Adventure Award
up to £2,500
The scheme is intended to support groups undertaking adventurous endeavours. In particular, the scheme wishes to fund adventurous "firsts", which have not previously been attempted.
Tesco Bag's of Help
up to £4,000
Bags of Help is Tesco’s exciting local community grant scheme where the money raised from the 5p bag charge is being used to fund thousands of local projects in communities right across the UK.
UK Community Foundations Network
Community Foundations harness the generosity of individuals, families and businesses to support local communities and thousands of people in need.
Screwfix Foundation
The Screwfix Foundation is a registered charity set up in 2013. We have a clear purpose of raising funds to support projects that will fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities for those in need throughout the UK.
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