Funding support
Sport Hampshire & IOW is commited to providing guidance and advice on funding and support to clubs, groups and individuals. These pages contain information on funding opportunities and include details about local and national resources.
In addition, Hampshire County Council and Sport Hampshire & IOW have a number of schemes designed to provide straightforward funding and support for local athletes and clubs, as well as coaches and volunteers. Further support and advice, including helpful dos and don'ts can be found on the Hampshire County Council External Funding pages.
Hampshire County Council funding
- The Hampshire Talented Athlete Scheme - funding and support services for talented athletes in Hampshire and Southampton.
- Financial Assistance for Talented Young People in Sport - support to ensure that young people are not denied the opportunity to participate at a representative level in sport through financial hardship. Specific criteria must be met before an application will be considered.
Other funding streams
- Sports Aid - provides financial grants to athletes aged between 12 - 18 years old or up to 35 years old for disability sports.
- TASS - provides financial grants to athletes aged between 16 - 24 years old that are undertaking a recognised education programme registered at an Institution in England.
- OCS Young Sports Person Awards provide financial grants to up and coming young sports people.
- The Dickie Bird Foundation - provides financial grants for people under 18 from disadvantaged backgrounds
Coaches seeking financial support to develop and improve their skills and qualifications should visit the Coaching Hampshire & IOW funding pages for advice and guidance on funding opportunities.
In addition, Hampshire-based coaches, officials and volunteers can apply for support through a Scholarship Scheme, run and adminstered by Coaching Hampshire & IOW. The Scheme is designed to target those coaches, officials and volunteers that have the most immediate impact on coaching and club sport delivery in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Sport Hampshire and IOW is dedicated to providing clubs with advice and guidance on various aspects of funding, including sources of funding available, project planning and writing successful applications.
Some of the key national, regional and local funding sources available to sports clubs are listed below. This list represents a small proportion of funding available; for further funding and finance opportunites please visit Funding Central website or contact Heather Windust.
STOP PRESSSported is the leading UK sport for development charity and they have launched a brand new funding stream which will help clubs fund salaries, running costs/overheads and programme delivery costs. Grants of up to £10,000 are available, full details can be found below.
Name of funding | What can be funded | Amount available |
Hampshire & IOW Community Foundation's focus their grant programmes on projects that help people to lead healthier lives, develop opportunities for playing sport, support persons in crisis or deliver employment and training opportunities. | £250 - £5,000 | |
The Hampshire Playing Fields Association (HPFA) was established in 1926 to improve sports, recreational and children’s play facilities within Hampshire, by advising and supporting parish/town councils and voluntary clubs and groups by distributing grants and low interest loans. For further information contact the Secretary, HPFA on 01962 779334. | Grants up to £2,500 | |
The Community Challenge Fund is a one-off grant scheme by Hampshire County Council for projects by rural communities which help improve local quality of life. Grants of up to £2,500 are available, but you do have to provide match funding. Some of the match funding can be ‘in kind’ e.g. as volunteer time | Up to £2,500 | |
The aim of the Trophy Torch Bursary is to help volunteers to improve their skills as coaches or officials but are unable to do so without funding. In most cases, the minimum Bursary would be £100 and the maximum £1000 and it would not be for more than 50% of the total costs involved. Exceptional applications may be considered for grants outside these guidelines. | £100 - £1000 | |
Return to Sport has been developed to encourage adults (16+) to get back into sport or to try a sport for the first time. Funding is available for any sports club, leisure facility operator, constituted community organisation or National Governing Body wishing to run an introductory course for adults in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Applications can be made for funding of up to £500 per project, which must be spent on providing high quality sessions over a 6 - 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. | Up to £500 | |
Sported is the leading UK sport for development charity. They have 2 grants available, however in order to apply you must sign up as a member of their charity, (this is free). The 2 grants available are: Small grant - up to £2,000. This one-off grant is available to all Members, with applications being reviewed every 3 months. Large grant - most of the grants that we award are for between £2,000 and £10,000. We do occasionally award larger amounts, but this will involve a longer process. Sported will consider funding salaries, running costs/overheads and programme delivery costs. They will also consider supporting projects for more than one year, but funding will always be offered as part of a wider support package to ensure the ongoing development of your project or organisation. Generally they will not help fund large capital expenses such as building facilities. | Up to £10,000 | |
Awards for All aims to help improve local communities and the lives of people most in need. It funds projects that meet one or more of the following outcomes:
| £300 to £10,000 | |
The Sport England Sportsmatch programme increases investment in community sport by matching new sponsorship money pound for pound. They can match sponsorship which has been given to an eligible sports body by a company, trust, charity, or private individual to fund projects that promote new participation at grassroots level. The current round of applications opened on 17 January for projects starting after 1 April 2011. | £1,000 to £100,000 | |
Cash 4 Clubs is a simple scheme aimed at giving community clubs a helping hand and provide the opportunity to raise the money they need to invest in their club. | £250, £500 and £1000 | |
Sport England have set up a small grants programme to support local community sport projects which seek to increase participation, sustain participation or develop opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport. The grant is open to any bona fide not-for-profit club or association, statutory body or educational establishment. | £300 - £10,000 | |
JustGiving for sports clubs will help club members to raise more money, and claim Gift Aid, using the same award-winning tools as the biggest charities in the UK. JustGiving have dropped their subscription fees – worth £180 per year for all sports clubs that are registered as a Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs). | ||
The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme provides one-off donations of between £1,000 and £4,000. The funding can go towards providing practical benefits, such as equipment and resources for projects that directly benefit children, the elderly and adults and children with disabilities, living in the local communities around Tesco stores in the UK. There are 4 deadlines for the fund: | £1,000 to £4,000 | |
The programme will fund capital projects that create, develop and improve playing fields for sporting and community use and offer long term protection of the site for sport. | Up to £50,000 | |
The Inspired Facilities fund could help you refurbish or upgrade your sports facility; or convert an existing building into a venue suitable for sport and accessible to the whole community.
There will are five funding rounds, the first three being:
| £20,000 to £50,000 | |
Sport England's Iconic Facilities fund draws on the inspirational pull of London 2012 to create local beacons for grassroots sport. They are investing £30m over the next three years in innovative, large-scale, multi-sport facilities' projects that are regionally significant for at least two sports and can demonstrate long-term financial viability. Applications must be submitted by an organisation in England entitled to receive public funding such as sports clubs, voluntary or community organisations, local authorities and education establishments. | ||
Fundrazor have teamed up with leading entertainment partners and venues across the UK to supply unbeatable ticket offers for fundraising groups. All the tickets are cut-price, the tickets you buy can all be sold on to family and friends for the full price and all the money you raise you keep! | ||
Recipric8 are a recycling company that focuses upon the recycling of consumer electronic equipment. This includes Mobile Phones, PDAs, MP3/4s, SatNavs, Ink Jet Cartridges & Toners, and similar products. You gain Reciproc8 Points™ for the amount of consumer electronics goods that you collect for recycling. You can then redeem these Reciproc8 Points™ against a portfolio of sporting experiences and sports products. | ||
This grant programme is open to organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people who are 18 years old and under. Your organisation and project must be based in the UK and you need to be a registered charity or other not-for-profit organisation. There are four general grant deadlines each year: 15 January, 15 April, 15 July, 15 October. | ||
Amateur sports clubs can take advantage of valuable tax relief and Gift Aid on voluntary donations by registering as a CASC. | ||
Regional Community Loan Funds | Provide loan finance to not-for-profit community organisations. As well as financial support, LIF can also provide technical assistance through the organisation ProHelp. This is a national network of architects, accountants, solicitors, public relations and marketing specialists, IT consultants and many others all of whom can provide professional and strategic support free of charge to voluntary and community groups in their local area. | £15,000 to £100,000 |
The Football Foundation is the UK’s largest sports’ charity. Funded by the Premier League, The Football Association and the Government, the Foundation directs £40m every year into grass roots sport. They have several different grants that cover facility projects, projects that aim to increase participation by both players and volunteers or projects that use football and sport to create opportunities and build communities. | ||
This fund supports projects that make physical improvements to community leisure facilities and historic buildings / structures. Not-for-profit organisations including not for profit organisations, community groups, parish councils, local authorities and charities can apply | Up to £60,000 |
Sports partnership funding for voluntary bodies and other organisations
Who can apply?
Governing Bodies of Sport and other voluntary bodies operating in Hampshire are invited to apply after negotiation with the Partnership Director. Organisations must have prior approval in order to apply for a grant.
What can be funded?
Voluntary bodies and other organisations are invited to apply for annual partnership funding to assist them with their essential running costs. The support enables them to deliver sports development projects and activities in support of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sports Partnership Strategy and the Corporate Strategy.
What can't be funded?
Funding for major capital works is not available.
When to apply?
Application forms are distributed in November each year with submission date in the following February.
What happens next?
The Partnership Director collates submissions and writes a formal report for the Executive Member for Culture, Communities and Rural Affairs meeting in March. The Executive Member approves or declines submissions at this meeting. The Partnerhsip Director will then contact organisations following this meeting to discuss outcomes, conditions of grant and payment of monies if appropriate.
For more information on these grants, please contact the Partnership Director Tel: 01962 846029.
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This page was last updated on 27 January 2012. © Copyright Hampshire County Council 2012.