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Swimming Pool Support Fund Open for Applications
The Swimming Pool Support Fund is now open to applications from local authorities with pools in their area. The £20m pot which is open for applications is to help those facilities with swimming pools that have increased cost pressures, leaving them most vulnerable to closure or significant service reduction. The remaining £40m will be made…
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Funding to Support the Core Costs of Organisations Working with Children
Not-for-profit organisations working with children and young people aged 18 or under can apply for grants from BBC Children in Need of up to £40,000 per year for up to three years to support their core costs. Core costs funding can be spent on the applicant’s day-to-day operations. Organisations seeking funding in excess of £15,000…
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Tesco Stronger Starts Programme Opens for Applications
Tesco is introducing a £5 million grant programme to give children across the UK a stronger start in life. The grants will help schools and children’s groups provide nutritious food and healthy activities that support young people’s physical health and mental wellbeing, such as breakfast clubs or snacks, and equipment for healthy activities. Priority is…
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New GSK Health Inequalities Programme Opens for Applications
This new programme offers funding and leadership support to small charities tackling health inequalities in the UK. The new GSK Health Inequalities programme is funded by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in partnership with The King’s Fund. The funding is aimed at very small charities working in their communities to address health inequalities and who find it hard…
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Empowering Active Communities – National Grid Funding Programme
Local sports clubs and community groups can apply now for grants of up to £10,000 to support new exercise and sporting initiatives in their area, following the launch of the latest phase of our Community Matters Fund. The £500,000 ‘Active Communities’ fund has been launched to empower communities, improve health and widen participation in local…
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Club Matters Training Sessions
Short, free training sessions that will develop your skills, improve your knowledge and ultimately help you develop your club. Each workshop typically lasts two hours and they’re open to anyone involved with a community sports club. The following Club Matters sessions are scheduled over the next few weeks. Introduction to Legal Structures – Workshop Tuesday,…
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Annual Gardening Competition – Win up to £1,000
Cultivation Street is an annual competition to win up to £1000 in gardening vouchers for your community, neighbourhood or school garden. The school category closes 20 July 2023 and all other categories 1 August 2023. This year, they have a special category that is open to any school or community garden that has been designed…
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National Lottery Community Fund – New Strategy
The National Lottery Community Fund has unveiled its new strategy which says a focus going forward will be on four key missions where it wants its funding to make the biggest impact: There will be more announcements to come about new funding opportunities and programmes as The National Lottery Community Fund starts to work through…
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NEW. The Million Hours Fund: Supporting Youth Activities during the Summer Holidays
Up to £3 million is available through The National Lottery Community Fund’s (TNLCF’s) Awards for All England programme this summer. This is the first phase of funding of the Million Hours Fund, which totals £11 million up to March 2025. Awards for All England welcomes applications for projects that will support young people primarily aged…
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Sport England Small Grants Fund – New Deadline, 31st March 2024
Sport England’s Small Grants fund has announced a new deadline for applications. This window for applications has been extended to 31st March 2024. The focus is on sport and physical activity for people who maybe less active.. They are particularly interested in projects working with people living within the 30% most deprived communities. They are…
