Sports funding bodies

The funding streams below are regularly reviewed and are given as options for you to consider.

Local funding information

Lambeth Community Fund

Lambeth Community Fund is currently under review.

For more information please visit the support for voluntary and community organisations page.

Stockwell Urban II Grants Fund

Tel: 020 7735 5051
Fax: 020 7926 2702
Email: jheni@stockwell.org.uk
www.stockwell.org.uk

• Funding for education/learning and health and sports provisions by community and voluntary groups within the Stockwell area.
• Small grants of between £500-£5,000 that do not require match funding.
• Large grants of between £5,001-£15,000 where applicants will be expected to provide at least 25% match funding.

Lambeth Voluntary Action Council (LVAC)

95 Acre Lane
Brixton
SW2 5TU
Tel: 020 7737 1419
Fax: 020 7737 4328
Email: LVAC@lambethvac.org.uk
www.lambethvac.org.uk

• Offers advice about funding available for training, marketing and organisational development.

Lambeth Council Education Business Partnership

1st Floor, Blue Star House
234-244 Stockwell Road
SW9 9SP
Tel: 020 7926 9633

• Small equipment grants towards the purchase or repair of items of equipment used by children and young people.
• Funding can be used to adapt premises.

Lambeth Business Start Up Fund

Business Advice Service South Central
Tel: 020 7274 9119
Fax: 020 7326 1030
Email: southcentral@one-london.com

• Loan system up to £5,000, successful applicants must start trading within 3 months.
• Repayments period up to 3 years by monthly direct debit.

National sports funding bodies

The national or regional sport funding bodies have a remit to support and provide opportunities, and develop sustainable programmes that will have an impact on community provision.

Football Foundation

Tel: 020 7534 4210
0800 0277766
www.footballfoundation.org.uk

• Grants are offered to enhance grassroots football provision across the UK, covering team kit, facility hire, equipment and other football items.
• Small grants up to £10,000.
• Facility Grants up to £1million.

Sports Aid Foundation

Tel: 020 7387 9380
www.sportsaid.org.uk

• Grants elite sports men and women who are of international competition calibre in their sport.
• Help is given for cost of training travel and coaching incurred while preparing for competitions.

Foundation of Sport and Arts (UK)

www.thefsa.net

• Grants and interest free loans of up to £40,000 are available.

London Marathon Charitable Trust

2 The Square
Richmond
Surrey TW9 1DY
Tel: 020 8940 0102

• Surplus made from the Flora London Marathon and other events are ploughed back into sporting and recreational projects across Greater London.
• Since its inauguration the Trust has donated over £14 million to projects in the capital.
• Last year alone 37 projects across 28 London boroughs were allocated grants of between £8,000 and £500,000.

Healthy Lifestyle Grants

Tel: 0113 297 6206 (Lifestyle Officer)

• The Lifestyle Grants programme aims to support lifestyle interventions in communities to prevent or reduce the risk factors of heart disease.
• Awards grants from £1,000 to £10,000 that are one off, or for the first year. Part funding is also acceptable.
• Grants are awarded twice a year, in May and November.

Lord Taverners

Nicky Atkinson Foundation Manager
Tel: 020 7821 2808
Fax: 020 7821 282
www.lordstaverners.org

• Aims to give young people, particularly those with special needs, a sporting chance.
• Provide opportunities for young people, able-bodied or with disabilities, under the age of 25 to participate in sport and recreation.

Allen Lane Foundation Grants Programme

www.allenlane.org.uk

• Priorities for funding include the provision of advice, information and advocacy, community development and neighbourhood mediation.

The Dickie Bird Foundation

Jefferson House
Orchard Lane
Guiseley
Leeds LS20 9HZ
Tel: 01943 873482
Email: info@thedickiebirdfoundation.org
www.thedickiebirdfoundation.org

• The foundation was established by Dickie in March 2004 with the aim of helping disadvantaged young people, nationwide, to participate in sport.
• Its objective is to provide or assist the provision of facilities which enable young people.

Awards for All

Tel: 0845 600 2040
www.awardsforall.org.uk

• Priorities are Arts and Sports activities, with grants up to £5,000.

Baring Foundation

Tel: 020 7767 1348
www.baringfoundation.org.uk

• The core priority is based around strengthening the voluntary sector by management training, improving the effectiveness of the organisation, and the introduction of new technologies.

BBC Children In Need

Tel: 020 8576 7788
www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey

• Grants of up to £25,000 are made to projects for disadvantaged children under the age of 18. This can cover capital projects, play-schemes, holidays or outings and equipment.
• Please note that funding does not cover holidays abroad or medical research.

Bridge House Estate Trust Fund

Tel: 020 8576 7788
www.bridgehousegrants.org.uk

• The trust makes grants that cover: access for older and disabled people, environmental conservation, children and young people, and technical assistance for voluntary organisations.
• Grants range between £20,000 and £100,000.

Camelot Foundation

Tel: 020 7828 6085
www.camelotfoundation.org.uk

• Under the Transforming Lives programme, which runs until 2009, £2million per year will be allocated in grants for projects dealing with priority groups like young parents, young people, and people with mental health problems.
• Individual grants will range from £1,000 to £9,000.

Capital Radio

Tel: 020 7766 6203

• The appeal raises funds for children under the age of 18 in the Capital Radio area.
• Covers projects including play-schemes and education and health programmes.

Charities and Foundation

Tel: 020 7400 2300
www.cafonline.org

• CAF make grants to improve the effectiveness and long-term viability of organisations and has specific funding to support second tier organisations.

Citizenship 21 Grants

Tel: 020 7881 9441
Email: Infor@c21project.org.uk

• Grants of up to £5,000 given to promote equality and diversity, and tackle homophobia, racism and other discrimination.

Esmee Fairborn Charitable Trust

Tel: 020 7297 4700
www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk

• The trust makes grants under four heading: Arts and heritage, Education, Environment and Social, of up to £100,000.

Community Champions Fund

Helen Barry
Government Office for London
Floor 6, Riverwalk House
157 - 161 Millbank
SW1P 4RR
Tel: 020 7217 3302
Email: hbarry.gol@go-regions.gsi.gov.uk

• The fund is designed to increase the skills levels of individuals to enable them to act as inspirational figures, community entrepreneurs, and community mentors/leaders, in order to increase community involvement in regeneration and learning activity.
• Total Fund Value - £9,000,000 (individual grants range between £50 and £2,000).

European Social Fund - Fast Forward Grants

Tel: 020 7940 1515
Email: Fastforwardgrants@gle.co.uk

• The grants are run annually by the Association of London Government (ALG), up to £10,000.

European Social Fund - Objective 3

Tel: 020 8579 6273
Email: antony@ealingcvs.org.uk

• Funds projects tackling long term employment, helping young people and those at risk, improving training and lifelong learning, and encouraging more women into the labour market.

Heritage Lottery Fund

Tel: 020 7591 6042
www.hlf.org.uk

• There are a wide range of local heritage projects which the HLF will provide grants for, up to £50,000.

The Kings Fund

Kings Fund Grants Department
Tel: 020 7307 2495
Email: z.khan@kingsfund.org.uk

• Supporting Londoners to take action for health, in recognition that families, friends and communities play a key role in helping people stay healthy, and cope when they are unwell, vulnerable or isolated.
• Distribute around £1.8 million in grants annually, awarded to statutory and voluntary health-focused organisations making practical improvements to the health of Londoners, through innovative community-based projects.

Local Network Fund for Children and Young People

www.governmentfunding.org.uk

Millennium Awards

Active Citizen Scheme
Tel: 0870 770 3280
Ethnic Minority Voluntary Scheme
Tel: 020 8432 0313

• There are a number of different schemes offering Millennium Awards.
• These offer grants to different individuals or groups to run a project for the benefit of their area or their community.
• Grants are up to £15,000.

Opportunities for Volunteering

www.volunteering.org.uk

• The General Fund of the Opportunities for Volunteering (OFV) scheme (previously administered by The Consortium on Opportunities for Volunteering), is now distributed by the Grants Directorate of Volunteering England (VE).
• The scheme funds locally-focused projects in England up to £35,000, to increase the quality and involvement of volunteers in health and social care.

Tesco Charity Trust

Tesco Stores Ltd
Delamare Road
Cheshunt EN8 9SL
www.tesco.com/everyLittleHelps

• Tesco helps local and national charities as well as voluntary organisations to provide practical support for children, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
• Donations generally range between £1,500 and £5,000.

Tudor Trust

Tel: 020 7727 8522
www.tudortrust.org.uk

• The trust is targeted at projects aimed at young people aged 9-18 and also families and older people living in marginalised communities. Donations of upwards of £500.

Volunteering General Fund

Grants Directorate
Volunteering England
Regents Wharf
8 All Saints Street
N1 9RP

• Grants will be awarded to organisations that involve volunteers in the delivery of health and social care projects, ranging from £10,000 to £35,000 per year.

The Wates Foundation

Tel: 020 8764 5000
www.watesfoundation.org.uk

• The general areas that the Foundation supports are community projects benefiting the deprived and disadvantaged.
• Grants of up to £25,000 are available.

Yapp Charitable Trust

Tel: 01484 683 403
Email: Yapp.trust@care4free.net

• The trust makes grants of up to £3,000, to groups with an annual income under £100,000 for work with young people, older people substance misuse and many others.

Living Space

Living Space PO Box 2014
Reading RG4 7XU
Tel: 0845 600 3190

• Purposes of the grants (between £1,000 and £10,000) are to develop living spaces, safer, cleaner greener and sustainable communities.

Community Learning Chest

South East London Community Foundation (SELF)
Tel: 020 7582 5117

• Individuals can apply for funding for learning and development activities but must be sponsored by a voluntary or community group.
• Grants of £50-£2,000 given on a rolling basis.

Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chest

South East London Community Foundation (SELF)
Tel: 020 7582 5117

• Funding contributes to regeneration by encouraging greater involvement in local community activities.
• Grants of between £50 and £5,000.

Neighbourhood Renewal Fast Track Grants

South East London Community Foundation (SELF)
Tel: 020 7582 5117

• Funding contributes to regeneration by encouraging greater involvement in local community activities.
• Grants of around £1,000.

Local Network Fund for Children

South East London Community Foundation (SELF)
Tel: 020 7582 5117

• Funding given to improve the lives of disadvantaged children or young people (aged up to 19).
• Grants of between £250 and £7,000.

Young Roots Heritage Lottery

Tel: 020 7591 6000
Young Roots website

• Young Roots promotes the involvement of young people, particularly supports applications from the Black and Ethnic Minorities community.
• Grants of £5,000 - £25,000.

Barclays Social Responsibility Programme

www.barclays.co.uk/socialresponsibility

• Currently focus financial support on five areas: Education, the Environment, the Arts, people with disabilities and Social Inclusion, with grants of £1,000 to £25,000.

Futurebuilders

Shireen Madon
Tel:020 7944 2666
Email: shireen.madon@odpm.gsi.gov.uk
www.futurebuilders-england.org.uk

• Futurebuilders is a £125m groundbreaking government investment fund, backed by the Home Office, to improve public service delivery through long term investment in the voluntary and community sector in England.
• Futurebuilders is hoping to invest in around 250 voluntary and community organisations.
• The aim is to improve public service delivery by widening the range of service providers and helping develop their delivery capacity, particularly in more challenging areas of service provision.
• Investments range from £30,000 to several million. In addition, a number of development grants of around £10,000 will be allocated to promising applications, which require further work.

The Scarman Trust

www.thescarmantrust.org/london

• Grants (of £1,600 - £7,500) are offered to enable people to put their bright ideas into action to benefit others.
• Scheme is targeted at individuals and will not fund established voluntary organisations.

National and regional sports bodies

The Big Lottery Fund

In total £99million has been committed to increase community participation in sport and physical activity.
Tel: 020 7211 1800
Big advice line: 0845 4 10 20 30
Fax: 020 7211 1750
Email: general.enquiries@biglotteryfund.org.uk
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

UK Sport

Supports talented men and women in sports where we compete as the United Kingdom.
Tel: 020 7211 5100
Fax: 020 7211 5100
Email: info@uksport.gov.uk
www.uksport.gov.uk

The Women's Sports Foundation

Tel: 020 7273 1740
Fax: 020 7273 1981
Email: info@wsf.org.uk
www.wsf.org.uk

Disability Sport England

Tel: 0161 953 2499
Fax: 0161 953 2420
Email: info@dse.org.uk
www.disabilitysport.org.uk

Awards for All

A lottery grant scheme aimed at local communities issuing grants of between £500 and £5,000.
Tel: 020 7587 6659
Fax: 020 7587 6610
Email: london@awardsforall.org.uk
www.awardsforall.org.uk

Sports match

A grassroots sponsorship incentive scheme, which matches commercial sponsorship, pound for pound.
Tel: 020 7273 1942
Fax: 020 7273 1981
Email: info@sportsmatch.co.uk
www.sportsmatch.co.uk

Sport England

Sport England provides the strategic lead for sport in this country and has invested over £2 billion from its lottery fund in sporting projects from grassroots to elite level.
Tel: 08458 508 508
Fax: 020 7383 5740
Email: info@sportengland.org
www.sportengland.org

Sports Coach UK

Tel: 0113 274 4802
Fax: 0113 275 5019
Email: coaching@sportscoachuk.org
www.sportscoachuk.org

Who to contact

If you would like to know more about funding opportunities, please contact us.

Sports & Recreation Unit
4th Floor
Blue Star House
234-244 Stockwell Road
SW9 9SP
Tel: 020 7926 0396
Fax: 020 7926 6201
Email: Sports@lambeth.gov.uk