1. Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Information, Advice and Guidance for Funding

2. Introduction to Funding
Searching and applying for funding is a necessary but potentially daunting experience We want to help make the progress easier for community groups and organisations to generate the income required to continue addressing the needs within the local community. Hopefully, this will provide a start-point in which to begin the process

3. Sport England Funding
Sport England offer a variety of funding streams; offered both to sports clubs and community groups with a focus to increase participation in sport and physical activity The Main Streams
Small Grants – Small-scale projects aimed at increasing participation
Strategic Facilities – Sustainability support for long-term participation
Community Asset – Supporting the asset transfer of local facilities

4. Small Grants Open dates: Open with no end date
Funding available: £300-£10,000
Main Focus and Projected Outcomes:
Get inactive people to become more active
Develop lasting sporting habits
Engender more positive attitudes among young people
Develop more diverse volunteers
Improve progression and inclusion among the most talented
Suitable for:
Organisations that are not-for-profit, voluntary or community club or organisation
Registered Charity
Not-for-profit Company
Community Interest Company
Other social enterprises, schools or statutory bodies are also eligible.
Our tip: Ensure of a clear pathway to sustainable participation (I.e. Links to talent pathways

5. Strategic Facilities Main Focus: Suitable for:
Open dates: Open with no end date
Funding available: £250,000-£500,000
Main Focus:
The Strategic Facilities Fund is designed to support the sector to invest strategically to deliver the outcomes essential to local communities.
Support the initialisation and development of community sport facilities and buildings (For example- renovation of a community building into a dance studio)
Suitable for:
Sports Clubs and Community Organisations with a focus to build or renovate a facility for sports participation purposes
Our tip: Demonstrate the level of need to the community for such projects and how the development of a facility will allow access to local community members

6. Community Asset Fund Main Focus & Projected Outcomes:
Open dates: Open with no current end date
Anticipated size of bids: £1,000-£150,000
Main Focus & Projected Outcomes:
Improve and protect existing sports facilities that support the needs of local communities
Invest in new and different places that meet the needs of local communities, which include our target audiences
Ensure our capital investment reaches organisations who have not accessed our funding before
Create a more resilient, sustainable, less grant dependent sport sector
(Please note: Football and Cricket-only projects can not be funded through this stream. Sport England support the Football Foundations and English Cricket Board’s specific funding streams to such sports)
Suitable for: All organisations
Our tip: Opportunity to develop project proposals via this funding – eg. Feasibility studies

7. National Funding Streams
The National Lottery Community Fund
The People’s Health Trust
British Cycling: The Places to Ride Programme

8. The National Lottery Community Fund
Awards for All
Open dates: Open with no end date
Funding available: £300-£10,000
Main Focus and Projected Outcomes:
People have better chances in life – with better access to training and development to improve their life skills.
Stronger communities – with more active citizens working together to tackle their problems.
Improved rural and urban environments – which communities are better able to access and enjoy.
Healthier and more active people and communities
Who can apply?:
voluntary or community organisation
registered charity
constituted group or club
not-for-profit company
community interest company
social enterprise
school
statutory body (including town, parish and community council)
Examples of Projects Funded:
Heritage
Sport
Arts
Community
Health & Wellbeing
Advocacy
Public Space Development

9. People’s Health Trust Open dates: Current open until 3rd April at 1pm
Funding available: £5000-£50,000 (various timeframes)
People’s Health Trust’s new Active Communities Funding Programme aims to support local people to use their skills and knowledge to make their communities better places in which to grow, live, work and age.
Who can apply?
Constituted, non-for-profit organisations or groups that supports people to create or shape local projects
Examples:
Community Social Action
Sport for Social-Change Initiatives
Training Opportunities

10. British Cycling The Places to Ride Programme
Amount available: Various (depending on scale and merit of funding request)
Deadline: 15th January 2021
Suitable for: New and existing clubs, local authorities, community organisations, educational establishments and charitable organisations
Description: The Places to Ride Programme seek to offer financial support for projects that aim to inspire people to cycle, connect the community and build a lasting legacy through cycling facility improvement and development.

11. Localised Funding Streams
Staffordshire Community Foundation
Environment Support Funding
Local Authority Area Funding

12. Staffordshire Community Foundation
The Staffordshire Community Foundation houses and manages a range of opportunities for community investment. These opportunities are specific to geographical location with examples of funding being: Opportunities for partnership tenders are also available through the Staffordshire Community Foundation
PFCC Funding
The Kingsley Community Fund
Breath of Life Community Grants

13. Environment Support Funding
Environmental Funding Streams focus on specific areas of highlighted environmental concern to support residents in such communities Funding is distributed according to various outcomes and geographical location. Some examples include: See the Funding link sheet for more info
Coalfields Regeneration Trust
RED Industries Landfill Communities Grant
Biffa Award
Veolia Environmental Trust

14. Local Authority Area Funding
Funding Scheme
How Much?
To Whom?
Other
For further details…
Staffordshire Moorlands
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Sports Grants
For Individuals:
Up to £500
Talented individuals competing / training at County level or above and living within the District
Funding is available to assist local sports people with the expense of coaching fees, competition fees, travelling to training sessions and competitions and essential equipment and clothing.
Leisure Services
For Sports Clubs:
To be considered for funding, clubs must be:
Voluntary, not-for-profit and open to all
A member of the Biddulph, Cheadle or Leek Sports Advisory Councils
Based in the Moorlands, with membership mainly resident in the District.
 The purpose of club grants includes helping them develop their activities or stage new events. In addition, the council has priority criteria to encourage participation in sport by women and girls, 16 to 24 year olds and people with disabilities.
For Coaches:
Coaches must be working with clubs in the Moorlands
These grants have been created to support coaches in gaining coaching qualifications. Grants for up to 90% of total cost with a maximum of £500 will be considered

15. Developing Applications
Do Your Research!
Guidance, Guidance, Guidance!
Be Concise!
Be Realistic!
Check and Double-Check!

16. Success Stories!
At Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, we want to celebrate the successes of local clubs, groups, charities and individuals in receiving funding for worth-while causes.
Have you recently been successful in an application for funding? Maybe, you want to celebrate the benefit that a funded project has had on an individual or group through sport and physical activity? If so, let us know and we can include your stories in our next ‘Success Stories’ bulletin!
Please contact:
David Richards Communities and Insight Officer

17. For further support… Contact: Ben Hollands – Partnership Manager
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