Deadline: 2-Nov-21
The Two Ridings Community Foundation has announced Made by Sport’s ‘Clubs in Crisis’ Fund to support sports clubs or organisations working within the sports for development sector which are able to demonstrate that the pandemic has affected them.
This could be operationally or financially. Funds can be used to save, resume or adapt your activity. The work of your organisation should be focused on young people aged 5-25.
Funding Information
- A one-off grant of £2,021, or less if the applicant does not need the full amount.
- The funding is unrestricted so can be spent on core costs in addition to programme or capital costs. Funding is not available for capital costs alone but small items of equipment which form part of the project can be included for example sports or IT equipment
Funding Criteria and Priorities
Applications will be prioritised in the following order in the event of oversubscription:
- Age group of your participants – the focus is on organisations were young people make up a significant majority of your participants
- Income turnover – the focus is on organisations with a lower income turnover
- Priority 1 – under £25,000
- Priority 2 – under £50,000
- Priority 3 – under £75,000
- Geographical location
- Areas of high deprivation
- Areas with high levels of crime and anti-social behaviour And
- Work with young people who are typically under-represented in sports (women and girls / ethnic minority groups / people with disabilities)
Outcomes
- The Made by Sport (MBS) fund will only fund sport for development projects which work towards one or more of those outcomes:
- Developing Life Skills
- Improving Mental Health
- Reducing Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour
- Developing Employability Skills
- Building Stronger Communities
- Sport for development isn’t community sport which just focusses on developing and widening opportunities to participate, traditionally within voluntary sports clubs and organisations overseen by governing bodies.
Eligibility Criteria
- Charities registered in the UK
- Social enterprises and Community Interest Companies
- Other not-for profit organisations
- All payments must be to an organisation’s bank account and not to an individual.
For more information, visit https://www.tworidingscf.org.uk/fund/made-by-sport-clubs-in-crisis-fund/