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Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. Information, Advice and Guidance for Funding. Introduction to Funding. Searching and applying for funding is a necessary but potentially daunting experience

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Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

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  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

  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 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 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

  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 CyclingThe 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

  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

  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

  14. Local Authority Area Funding

  15. Developing Applications

  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 RichardsCommunities and Insight Officer07800 619693drichards@staffordbc.gov.uk

  17. For further support… Contact: Ben Hollands – Partnership Manager Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent T: 01785 619693 M: 07812351083 E: bhollands@staffordbc.gov.uk Never miss a beat… sign up to our sport-e newsletter! www.sportacrossstaffordshire.co.uk

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