Funding

Sunsail’s Funding the Future Initiative 2026

up to £6,000

1:00am - Fri 22nd May, 2026

This initiative aims to provide essential financial resources to clubs, to be used to enhance facilities, invest in equipment, develop innovative programs, and cultivate the next generation of sailors.

Barclays Community Sport Fund

up to £1,000

5:00pm - Wed 27th May, 2026

The Barclays Community Sport Fund supports charities, community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived and rurally isolated areas of the UK and are making football, tennis, and cricket more accessible to women and girls.

Caremark Community Care Fund

3'000

11:45pm - Sun 31st May, 2026

We’re supporting community projects across the UK that bring people together and make a positive difference, including projects that make a lasting impact for inclusive sports or activity groups, village halls or community centres and community gardens or green spaces.

Healthy Heart Grant England (North)

up to £15,000

5:00pm - Wed 3rd June, 2026

Apply for funding of up to £15,000 for adult community projects in England (North) that promote healthier lifestyles and reduce the risk of heart disease.

FA Just Play - Women's Programme

up to £500

9:00am - Fri 12th June, 2026

Sported is delighted to be able to support community groups to deliver women’s football thanks to funding from The FA’s Just Play programme, a national initiative designed to increase football participation among women aged 18+.

Save Our Grassroots Match Fund

1:00am - Mon 20th July, 2026

This fund matches the money raised by local clubs, teams and community groups to support small projects that tackle flooding, waterlogging, and damage caused by extreme weather - using natural methods like planting, drainage, and surface improvements.

Paddle England Athlete Support Fund 2026

1:00am - Mon 24th August, 2026

The Paddle England Athlete Support Fund provides financial assistance to support athletes competing at British or English Team representative competitions that may otherwise have been unaffordable to them.

The Grocers' Charity - Open Grants

up to £5,000

1:00am - Tue 1st September, 2026

Funding is available to UK-registered charities working to reduce disadvantage and improve quality of life for vulnerable people. Funding is available for projects across a range of priority areas, including poverty relief, disability inclusion, and health and wellbeing.

Toyota Good For Cricket Prize Draw

1:00am - Wed 30th September, 2026

At Toyota, we understand that clubs rely on volunteers and fundraisers to keep the scoreboards ticking over. That's why we're committed to helping through the Toyota Good For Cricket Prize Draw. We're supporting clubs across the country to raise funds, ensuring more people can enjoy the game now and in the future.

Henry Smith Foundation Holiday Grants Programme

£500 to £3,000

1:00am - Thu 19th November, 2026

The Henry Smith Foundation Holiday Grants Programme offers one-off grants for schools, youth groups and non-profit organisations to take children aged 13 and under on recreational day trips or short residential trips.
Priority is given to disabled children and those in deprived areas. Grants range between £500 and £3,000.

British Dodgeball Coach Training Fund

up to £315

1:00am - Mon 21st December, 2026

British Dodgeball are offering support with part-funded coaching courses throughout 2026 as part of the British Dodgeball Coach Training Fund. Successful applicants will receive a 50% funding of costs for British Dodgeball Level 1 and Level 2 coaching courses and British Dodgeball coach membership for one season, enabling them to meet the minimum deployment requirements for delivering dodgeball independently in the UK.

CAF Bank - Secured Loans

£150,000 to £10,000,000

Could a secured loan of £150,000 to £10 million transform the work you do? You can apply if you’re a UK-based charity or social purpose enterprise that’s been running for at least three years.

British Cycling: Accelerate – The Sustainable Events Fund

£750 to £1,000

Accelerate - The Sustainable Events Fund, has been designed to give our communities a financial boost in taking action to reduce the environmental footprint of cycling events across the country, and help engage our communities on collective action.

Lionesses HERe to Play Fund

up to £25,000

The fund has been set up to support female participation in football following the rapid, Lionesses-inspired growth of the women and girls' game. The fund is aimed at providing every woman and girl with a safe, welcoming and accessible place to play football.

The Lionesses HERe to Play Fund offers grants of up to £25,000 for clubs and organisations to make their facilities more inclusive, such as clearer signage, sanitary bins, conversion of open showers to cubicle showers, and private spaces for baby change and breastfeeding.

Arnold Clark Community Fund

up to £750

Our Communities Support is available to organisations who provide services which are widely accessible to those within our local communities and address the needs of the people living within them, supporting our local communities to a better future.

Vinehill Trust Health Grants

£10,000 to £100,000

The Vinehill Trust makes grants to charitable, educational and ecclesiastical organisations across the United Kingdom in three areas of special interest. One area is Health - for projects that address acute conditions, plus temporary focus areas that change each year.

British Cycling Volunteer & Officials Bursary Programme 2025

This new bursary programme is designed to build an inclusive and welcoming volunteer pathway - one that not only supports and strengthens our sport but also inspires more people to get involved and make a meaningful impact within both the sport and their communities.

Paul Hamlyn Fund

30'000 to 150'000

The fund wants to support organisations who work with young people (14–25) to drive change so that future generations of young people can thrive.
The Fund believes that services, systems, structures, processes and practice can support young people to thrive. They aim that young people have their voices heard, and have agency and autonomy to drive changes and improvements which transform their transitions to adulthood.

Energy Resilience Fund (Grant & Loan)

£25,000 to £250,000

The Energy Resilience Fund provides a blended funding package of loan (60%) and grant (40%) to bolster the energy resilience of eligible charities and social enterprises in England.

Hays Travel Foundation

£2,000 to £15,000

Registered charities can apply for grants to support projects helping disadvantaged young people up to 25 years old in the areas of education, prevention of poverty, health, arts, culture, or sports.