| English Cricket Board |
| The home of English Cricket. This is the sport’s national
governing body and who set up the Cricket Foundation to
distribute their funding. It was recently awarded a £9
million boost from Sport England to deliver a Community
Club Programme. Most of this cash has already been
allocated and was secured for partner clubs identified as in
need of support to develop facilities. However, funds are
still available for those in need of support, but as with
pretty all cricket funding, if you don’t have the support of
the County Cricket Board, you’re going to struggle. The
ECB distributes funds generated through its broadcasting
income. They were set a target of investing 5% of this in
grass roots activities, but have demonstrated their
commitment to keeping English Cricket at the top of the
tree by investing a whopping 16% of it. That’s twice as
much as was invested by Cricket Australia in their grass
roots programme. Projects likely to be eligible for support
are club development schemes, capital projects, schemes
that will increase participation by people with disabilities
and improving levels of cricket in schools. |
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| Awards for All |
| This scheme falls under the Sport England umbrella, and
distributes a fund of £10 million each year to clubs and
organisation for small schemes, including revenue,
equipment and facility improvements. The fund is
managed and distributed through 9 regional offices. Unlike
the other funders, Awards for All will consider funding
100% of a project costs, although an in kind contribution
is required. But as the scheme is open to all sports and
community projects, not just cricket, therefore there may
not be enough funds to go around. All the more reason to
make sure that your grant application is complete and tells
them all the information they need to know. |
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| Lord Taverners |
Although they are a multi-sport funder, Lord Taverners are
best know for their fantastic support of cricket and have
just recently announced an increase in their level of
funding available. Again, this is in direct response to a rise
in applications received.
Applications for equipment, kit bags and activities that will
increase participation in cricket are all eligible for support,
and all applications must have an accompanying
recommendation from the ECB. |
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| Sports Match |
| Sports Match also distributes National Lottery and
Government funds, but works in a different way to all of
the other funding bodies. The aim of this scheme is to
introduce new money into sport through attracting
sponsors with the incentive of matching £ for £ funding for
equipment, events and small capital projects. There is an
annual fund of £4 million available, and the scheme is
open to professional and amateur clubs and organisations
across the sporting spectrum. Applications to this scheme
usually have a fairly fast response time, but again the key
is submitting concise but comprehensive applications,
making sure that all the information is provided. Reports
from Sportsmatch reveal that subsequent to the 2005
Ashes success, they were flooded with cricket related
projects from small one-off purchases of equipment to
development programmes and festivals. One third of the
applications received in total were cricket related – quite a
turn of fortune for the sport and placing the Sportsmatch
funds in greater demand. |
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| Landfill Tax Credits |
| This scheme is operated by a number of different landfill
operators across the country. Basically, if your project is
located within 10 miles of a landfill site, there is a
possibility that you could be eligible for some grant
funding, provided your project will deliver community
aims. Criteria varies between the different waste providers
(WREN, Biffa, Sita etc) but sports related projects are
sometimes eligible, including football, and grants for as
much as £50,000 are available. |
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| Local and National Private Trusts |
| There are far too many for us to mention here. In all there
are approximately 4,500 trusts that will consider funding
a sports related project, and access to them varies
considerably. Grants 4 Sport can carry out a bespoke
search to identify potential funders in regional areas, and
national funders that may just fancy funding your project.
For more infomation click on our Services page. |
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| Local Network Fund |
| Funded by the DfES, this is a small grants scheme aimed
at addressing isolation, inclusion and services aimed at
young people. A total fund of £3 million is available
nationally for grants between £250 and £7,000. |
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