Deadline: 30-Mar-25
The Sporting Heritage Community Grants respond to the needs of the sporting heritage sector.
The aim of the grants is to provide much needed support to organisations wishing to begin or develop their sporting heritage activity. This could be the very beginnings of creating activity, partnerships, and ideas, to developing and delivering exhibitions, events and resources.
They want to work with and support people and organisations to share stories from their communities and celebrate what they do. The focus is on community – the strongest applications will clearly show the role of community in their sporting heritage, and how sport is central to the story of this community.
The fund is flexible and can be used to cover many different activities, including creating resources and digital content, delivering events, training and development, volunteer expenses, marketing and publicity, purchasing equipment and creating exhibitions. You could organise a special community event or exhibition, host a tournament for your local sports group, or simply share your sporting memories and collections online through short videos, blogs or images. Or you could need funding to set up your organisation, consult with audiences, or develop a strategic vision for the next 12 months.
Funding Information
- Applicants can apply for a maximum of £1500 to support their project ideas.
Who can apply?
- They are particularly interested in hearing from community, heritage and grassroots sports organisations and groups. They also welcome applications from larger organisations which have a focus on engaging communities and co-curation with sporting heritage.
- The fund is open to all groups and organisations with a formal constitution, such as museums, archives, schools, youth clubs and community groups.
Criteria
- They have two key criteria:
- a focus on supporting communities who they recognise are underrepresented in sporting heritage, including young people, women, LGBT+ people. disabled people, black, Asian, and minority ethnic people, and neurodivergent people;
- a commitment to delivering an activity or event in support of the 2025 National Sporting Heritage Day on 30th September.
For more information, visit Sporting Heritage.