Deadline: 18-Oct-2024
One Knowsley is excited to announce the launch of the Physical Activity Small Grants Programme.
The grants will be available for organisations to design physical activities, building capacity and confidence around delivering physical activities in the Borough.
With the Physical Activity Small Grants Programme, One Knowsley will:
- Act as an intermediary between KMBC’s Public Health and the Social Sector in Knowsley by facilitating a project of community-led physical activities.
- Facilitate a small grants programme which will support a diverse range of grass roots organisations operating in Knowsley to explore and engage with physical activity.
- Support organisations and groups in Knowsley via smaller projects and activities, ensuring the grants can be accessed through a simplified application process.
What is Physical Activity?
- Physical Activity should be defined by you and your community however, as a definition they consider physical activity to be something which makes you move more often. This might include but is not exclusive to traditional forms of sports like football, cycling or walking to places, active play, taking part in dance and drama activities.
Funding Information
- Groups can apply for up to a maximum of £3,000 in any one financial year, this may be a one-off grant or a number of grants not totalling more than £3,000
What do they want to achieve?
- Through Physical Activity Small Grants, they would like to accomplish specific things and so are looking to work with organisations who can work with us to achieve the following outcomes:
- Increase the number of people participating in varied physical activity across Knowsley
What will they monitor?
- The number of people taking part in the funded activity
- The type of activity and
- Where activities take place across the Borough of Knowsley.
Eligibility Criteria
- Groups or organisations applying must:
- Be Knowsley-based.
- Registered as a community organisation (registered charity, Community Interest Company (CIC), Community Benefit Society (CBS), Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC), Co-Operative or Community Land Trust)
- and/or constituted as a group with a clear set of adopted rules.
- Have a current active bank account in its own name, with a minimum of 2 signatories and can submit a bank statement dated within the last 3 months.
- Have appropriate safeguarding policies in place.
Ineligibility Criteria
- There are several things the Physical Activity Small Grants will not fund:
- Individuals.
- Private businesses/organisations.
- Beneficiaries from outside the Knowsley area.
- Groups or organisations who have a political affiliation, religious activities, the promotion of personal objectives or anything that is not consistent with Public Health Knowsley’s corporate objectives.
- Activity that the Government has a legal obligation to fund, for example, sports sessions which take place in school during curriculum time.
- Activities which are part of the organisations normal day to day running costs such as core capital or wages.
- Transport costs unless there is a particular specialist need which will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
For more information, visit One Knowsley.