Deadline: 31-Aug-25
The Active Kent & Medway is thrilled to invite applications for its Capital Grant for Sport to encourage the development of sports in the county by offering grants to organisations to improve facilities and widen participation.
Objectives
- The Kent County Council Capital Grant for Sport is administered by Active Kent & Medway and is intended for the following purposes:
- Provision of facilities for the community of Kent, including specialist facilities, training centres and centres of excellence and performance
- Purchase of new fixed and large scale community equipment
- Improvements to existing buildings and sites or conversion of redundant buildings
- Levering funding from other organisations into key schemes in Kent, and demonstrating partnership
- Providing specialist facilities or equipment for disabled people
- Increasing participation in sporting activities
Funding Information
- Grants are available of up to £5,000 (The maximum amount of funding awarded of £5,000 is reserved only for projects of countywide strategic significance).
- The average funding award for this grant is currently around £2,500 per project.
Expected Outcomes
- In order for your application to be successful it must support one or more of the following KCC outcomes:
- Children and Young People have better physical and mental health
- All Children and Young People are engaged and thriving to reach their potential
- Increase participation in sporting activity by those aged 11-25
- Physical and mental health is improved by supporting people to take more responsibility for their own health and well-being.
- Kent residents enjoy a good quality of life and are more people benefit from greater social, cultural and sporting opportunities.
- Older and vulnerable residents feel socially included.
Eligibility Criteria
- Not for profit community organisations looking to develop sport and physical activity infrastructure such as: Voluntary Sports Clubs, Parish Council, Registered Charities, Schools and National Governing Bodies of Sport.
- Applicant organisations must:
- be located within the Kent County Council administrative boundary
- not be a borough or district council
- not have already started the project
- not be asking for 100% of the funding costs
- supply at least two quotes for the works
- upload a copy of their club constitution or organisations Articles of Association
- upload the latest set of accounts
- already have planning permission (if it’s required).
For more information, visit Active Kent & Medway.