Football Foundation: Facilities Grant
Description
The facilities scheme provides money to develop new or improve facilities for community benefit. These include changing rooms or clubhouses, grass or artificial pitches and multi-use games areas.
Eligible activity
The aim of this scheme is to improve facilities for football and other sport in local communities and sustain or increase participation amongst children and adults regardless of age, background or ability. Help children and adults to develop their physical, mental, social and moral capacities through regular participation in sport.
This is done by providing funding for grass pitch drainage / improvements, pavilions, clubhouses and changing rooms, artificial turf pitches and multi use games areas and fixed floodlights for artificial pitches.
Exclusions
Applications will not be accepted for indoor facilities or sites where football is only played by adults.
Available funding
The maximum grant for is £500,000.
Who can apply
Applications are accepted from football clubs, multi-sports clubs, local authorities, education establishments, registered charitable organisations, not for profit companies limited by guarantee, industrial and provident societies and unincorporated not for profit organisations.
All applicants must have security of tenure by means of "the freehold" or by means of an uninterrupted lease.
Deadlines
None specified. Please visit the website for more information.
Contact details
http://www.footballfoundation.org.uk/apply/facilities-grants/facilities-grant/