South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau Information Sheets Last updated October 2006 All our information is produced in a standard sized typeface, but we can produce it in other formats on request South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau The Workstation 15 Paternoster Row Sheffield S1 2BX Tel: 0114 249 4343 email: enquiries@syfab.org.uk Website: www.syfab.org.uk Funding Advice Line 0114 276 5460 Registered Charity No: 1061118 Reg. Company No: 3030641 Funding for Sports Groups What do you need funding for? • With any funding application the first step is to establish your funding need. If there is more than one project you need to find funding for, work out which is the priority. • Then do a careful costing. • Before you apply to any funder you should spend some time working on making your case to funders, collect statistics to support your case, put it down on paper to form the basis of your application. • Make sure you show that your group is well run and ready to use the grant if you get it. Key Funders of Sports Activity Sport England distributes money from the National Lottery to sport in England via the Community Investment Fund. Groups in South Yorkshire are covered by Sport England’s Yorkshire Regional office. Grants are provided to encourage more people to participate in sport and recreation activities and to address the inequalities in sports participation amongst the community. Awards for All is the National Lottery’s small grants fund. It receives money from Lottery money distributors including Sport England and has grants of £300 - £10,000 available to community sports activities. The Young People’s Fund is a Big Lottery Fund programme aiming to encourage young people to develop and participate in activities that improve local communities. The ‘Being Healthy’ strand supports projects that promote physical and mental health and healthy lifestyles with grants of £5,000 to £150,000. The Foundation for Sport and the Arts makes grants to local sports groups from money provided by Football Pools operators. The Football Foundation is the largest funder of grassroots football, providing funding for capital projects, projects using football as a tool to improve education attainment and social inclusion and challenge social nuisance, and for youth football kits. Grants range from a few hundred pounds up to £250,000. Sport Relief is a fundraising initiative run by Comic Relief. Small grants of up to £5,000 are available to groups in South Yorkshire through South Yorkshire Community Foundation for community projects that use sport to help people facing social exclusion or other difficulties, and to bring communities together. South Yorkshire Sport can offer support to sports clubs and community groups who want to make grant applications for sport and physical activity activities and also other agencies who want to use sport as a tool for regeneration. The Recreation and Leisure Department of your local Council may give grants to local sports projects. Charitable trusts - The Bureau’s Information Service can provide details of charitable trusts and other funders interested in funding particular sports groups/activities e.g. those working with particular disadvantaged groups. The Sports Funding Guide also has information on charitable trusts and foundations with a particular interest in sport. Sportsmatch – a scheme that matches business sponsorship raised by clubs for grass roots sporting events and activities. Governing bodies of particular sports Only a few have grant schemes themselves, but they may have specialist knowledge of funding for your particular sport. Sport England should have contacts for your sport’s governing body. Contacts Sport England Yorkshire 4th Floor, Minerva House East Parade, Leeds LS1 5PS Tel: 08458 508 508 Website: www.sportengland.org Awards for All Yorkshire 2nd Floor, Carlton Tower 34 St Paul’s Street Leeds LS1 2AT Tel: 0845 600 2040 Website: www.awardsforall.org.uk Young People’s Fund 3rd Floor, Carlton Tower 34 St Paul’s Street Leeds LS1 2AT Tel: 0845 410 2030 Website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk Foundation for Sports and the Arts PO Box 20 Liverpool L13 1HB Tel: 0151 259 5005 Website: www.thefsa.net Football Foundation 25 Soho Square London W1D 4FF Tel: 020 7534 4210 Website: www.footballfoundation.org.uk South Yorkshire Community Foundation (Sport Relief) Clay St Sheffield S9 2PF Tel: 0114 242 4294 Website: www.sycf.org Website: www.comicrelief.org.uk South Yorkshire Sport English Institute of Sport Coleridge Road Sheffield S9 5DA Tel: 0114 223 5674 Website: www.sysport.co.uk Sportsmatch 3rd Floor Victoria House Bloomsbury Square London WC1B 4SE Tel: 020 7273 1942 Website: www.sportsmatch.co.uk The Sports Funding Guide by Nicola Eastwood, 2nd edition, 1999, £16.95 (although some of the information in this guide is out of date, this remains the newest edition) published by: Directory of Social Change (DSC) Tel: 020 7209 5151 Website: www.dsc.org.uk Sport Club Status The Charity Commission now recognises as charitable the “promotion of community participation in healthy recreation by the provision of facilities for the playing of particular sports”. As a result sports clubs can now apply to the Charity Commission for charitable status, and associated tax benefits. In addition, the government has introduced a package of tax reliefs for Community and Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) registering directly with the Inland Revenue. Interested sport clubs should get advice from: Sport England (contact details above) Charity Commission Enquiry line: 0870 333 0123 Website: www.charitycommission. gov.uk/registeredcharities/ sport.asp Inland Revenue Tel: 0131 777 4147 Website: www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/ casc/index.htm Important: All the major sports funders such as Sport England and Foundation for Sports and the Arts can give grants to sports organisations whether they are registered charities or not. You do not have to be a charity to gain access to the major funders. © SYFAB 2004-2006 All rights reserved. Our information is produced for local community and voluntary groups. 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