Funding Guide

Welcome to the West Yorkshire Sport Partnership funding guide.

The aim of this guide is to provide easy access to information about funding opportunities, programmes and advice on the application process. We have provided details of the most likely sources of funding, eligibility criteria, size of grants available and contact details.

Download the West Yorkshire Funding Guide May 2010.pdf

Sport England also produce lots of useful information about raising your club's funds.

Visit the Sport England Funding Guide pages.

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Funding news

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Looking for funding?

GRANTnet is a straightforward free-to-use service from GRANTfinder, and can help your to identify suitable funding.

Information on over 4,000 grants and other incentives is rapidly identified by answering a few simple questions about the activity you wish to undertake and the type of funding required. There are several steps and, at each step, a Help screen assists you in completing the required information.

The system is updated regularly to ensure access to the very latest funding information and includes funds from Europe, the UK Government and local authorities. GRANTnet also provides a link to experts from Business Links in England, Scottish Enterprise, Invest Northern Ireland, the Flexible Support for Business service in Wales and the Enterprise Europe Network in the UK - so once you have identified a grant, you can get advice on submitting an application.

www.grantnet.com

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Disability Specific Funding

There are some specific funding ‘pots’ available for disability sport and the details can be found below:
Sports Aid
Sports Aid grant is for elite sportspeople who are of International or National competition calibre in their sport. Help is given for costs of training, travel and coaching incurred while preparing for competitions. The Sports Aid Charitable Trust offers grants to young people to develop their talents and to sportspeople with a disability up to the age of 35 years.

In such cases, applications must be made through the appropriate governing bodies. For further information on the application process, contact:

Sports Aid
3rd Floor, Victoria House
Bloomsbury Square
London
WC1B 4SE
Tel: 020 7273 1975
Fax: 020 7273 1981

E-mail: enquiries@sportsaid.org.uk
Website: http://www.sportsaid.org.uk

Peter Harrison Foundation
Through the ‘Opportunities Through Sport’ programme applications are accepted from charities nationwide.

The Trustees wish to support sporting activities or projects which provide opportunities for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged to fulfil their potential and to develop other personal and life skills.

Grants will often be “one off” grants for capital projects. We will, however, also consider revenue funding for a new project or if funding is key to the continuing success or survival of an established project.

The Trustees welcome applications for the following types of project:

Projects which provide a focus for skills development and confidence building through the medium of sport.
Projects that have a strong training and/or educational theme within the sporting activity.
Projects that provide sporting equipment or facilities for disabled or disadvantaged people.
Projects with a high degree of community involvement.
Projects that help to engage children or young people at risk of crime, truancy or addiction.

The Yapp Charitable Trust
The Yapp Charitable Trust make small grants, for running costs and salaries, to small registered charities to help sustain their existing work with:

elderly people
children and young people, aged 5 – 25
people with disabilities or mental health problems
people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social rather than medical origin, such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending

They also make grants to support small charities' work in education and learning, (including lifelong learning)

They do not fund:
New organisations – you must have been operating as a constituted charity for at least 3 years
New work – we provide continuation funding to sustain existing work that has been happening for at least a year, not to create new paid posts, launch new activities or for special events.
Capital expenditure - buildings, renovations, furnishings, equipment, minibuses.
Work with under-5s

Spinal Injuries Association – Rebuilding Lives through Sport
The aim of the SIA Rebuilding Lives Through Sport programme is:

To provide a fund to allocate grants to promote and encourage participation in wheelchair paralympic sporting disciplines with a particular focus on grassroots level support.

The purpose of the fund is:

To distribute up to £500,000 worth of grants into clubs and societies which promote and encourage wheelchair participation under the auspices of the appropriate governing body.
Eligible sports, as recognised by the IPC (Aug 2007) are:

Archery
Athletics
Boccia
Handcycling
Equestrian
Powerlifting
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Table Tennis
Sitting Volleyball
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair Fencing
Wheelchair Tennis
Wheelchair Rugby
Alpine Skiing
Ice Sledge Hockey
Nordic Skiing
Wheelchair Curling

Tesco Community Awards seek worthy causes (Closes March 31 - 2009)

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