Funding
There are no clubs which do not have a need for funding. More is available at the moment than at any other time in cricket’s history. But you have to be pro-active and chase it down. No one will come to you with a present of cash. This is the place to start looking.
Some funding ideas from NatWest
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A very useful booklet has been prepared by NatWest and is aimed at all clubs, especially those who are looking for funding!
It’s the first time this booklet has been produced and ECB/NatWest have plans to update it year-on-year. Very interesting indeed!
Funding Buddies Kent
How can you add that little bit of sustainability to your project? Do you need assistance in completing funding bids?
If so, Funding Buddies can offer the help and skills your club needs to be successful in completing bids.
The Funding Buddies project is a programme to assist community and voluntary groups access funding opportunities. It will also develop training courses to increase and enhance the skills of community organisations.
The project will operate throughout the Mid Kent Leader+ area but will concentrate specifically on the Isle of Sheppey and Romney Marsh.
Tesco Community Grants
For everyone looking at trying to raise funds for their club project, the Tesco Community Awards Scheme might be of interest.
The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme provides one-off donations of between £500 and £4,000. The funding they give goes towards providing practical benefits, such as equipment and resources for projects that directly benefit children, the elderly and adults and children with disabilities, living in the local communities around our stores in the UK.
You can find out more by downloading the attached PDF file or by visiting this link - or both!
Cash 4 Clubs for possible funding
Sport in the community is about local people, local facilities, local groups and organisations working together to provide opportunities to enjoy sport. Betfair and SportsAid recognise the importance of community sport, so Cash 4 Clubs has been set up to facilitate fundraising for community sports clubs throughout the country.
Cash 4 Clubs offers all sports clubs in the UK the chance to win grants ranging from £250 to £1000. It is a simple scheme aimed at giving community clubs a helping hand and provide the opportunity to raise the money they need to invest in their club.
You can find everything you need to know about Cash 4 Clubs on their website.
Potential Funding streams reviewed
Recently, Kent Cricket Board carried out a thorough review of the potential funding streams and opportunities that exist today.
All of our findings have been included in a document which lists the names of the organisations involved, all their contact details and the types and levels of funding that they offer.
It contains details of the Lord’s Taverners, O2’s “Its Your Community” Fund, Kent Sports Development Unit (KSDU), Kent Community Foundation, Comic Relief, Awards for All, Sport England, Sport England Small Grants, Pro-Active London Partnerships, Skills Active Bursaries and of course, the England and Wales Cricket Board.
If you are currently looking for funding this document will be of considerable interest to you. You can find it by following this link.
As always, Clair Gould and Andy Griffiths, Community Cricket Managers are available to give you advice on any funding opportunity you may want to investigate.
Lottery's Small Grants Scheme set for change
Following a review of the Awards for All England programme, changes are to be made to the small grants scheme’s existing format when it comes to an end in March 2009.
Currently Awards for All England is a joint Lottery grants programme supported by Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England.
From 1 April 2009 each of the lottery distributors supporting the scheme will have their own small grants programmes up and running. Applications can still be made under the current arrangements until 31 March 2009.
The change will mean that each distributor can better address the needs of their applicants and the themes they support. Overall, across all the distributors, it is anticipated that new money available for small grants in 2009-10 will be comparable to money that was available to community groups through Awards for All in 2008-2009.
To ensure this change will be as seamless as possible, the distributors will each run their own small grants programme as follows:
- Big Lottery Fund will launch a new small grants programme on 1 April 2009 awarding grants of £300 to £10,000 to local communities in 2009-2010.
- Sport England will provide small grants for sports ranging from £300 - £10,000 from 1 April 2009.
- Arts Council England will provide small grants through their existing ‘Grants for the arts’ programme, supporting awards between £1,000 and £100,000.
• Heritage Lottery Fund small grants will be provided through the existing ‘Your Heritage’ (£3,000 to £50,000) and ‘Young Roots (£3,000 to £25,000) schemes.