Welcome to the Sported Funding Bulletin. This page is here to help you find funding opportunities that may be available to your group or organisation.
We know that funding is a priority for many groups in our network, and that finding the right opportunity can sometimes feel complicated.
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Community Foundation North East - EDF Green Rigg Wind Farm Community Fund 16307
EDF Power Solutions is offering funding of up to £5,000. The Fund provides capital costs to charities, community and voluntary projects based within a ten-mile radius of the Green Rigg Wind Farm. The EDF Green Rigg Wind Farm Community Fund supports community groups and organisations within a ten-mile radius of the Green Rigg Wind Farm for projects to benefit local residents.
Deadline: 14 September 2026
Community Foundation North East - Nadara Sisters and North Steads Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund 16308
Community Foundation North East is offering funding of up to £20,000. The Fund provides capital and revenue costs to charities, community and voluntary projects based within 5km of the Nadara Sisters and North Steads wind farms. The Nadara Sisters and North Steads Windfarm Community Benefit Fund supports charities and community groups within a five kilometre radius of the wind farms, with priority given to those within a three kilometre radius.
Deadline: 21 September 2026
Community Foundation North East - RWE Renewables Kiln Pit Hill Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund 16309
RWE Renewables UK Limited is offering funding of up to £15,000. Grants are available to support local voluntary and community groups in the Parish of Shotley Low Quarter, Northumberland. The aim of the fund is to provide communities with sustainable support over the lifetime of the wind farm.
Deadline: 28 September 2026
Community Foundation North East - Tyne & Wear High Sheriff's Awards Scheme 16311
Community Foundation North East is offering funding of up to £1,000. Awards are made in recognition of groups in Tyne & Wear who encourage useful and beneficial pursuits for young people aged between 10 and 25, supporting them to be upstanding citizens and deterred from criminal activities and/or to positively turn their lives around. Awards are made in recognition of groups in the community who encourage useful and beneficial pursuits for young people, supporting them to be upstanding citizens deterred from criminal activities and/or to positively turn their lives around.
Deadline: 19 October 2026
Cornwall Councillor Community Chest Grant Scheme 16521
Cornwall Council is offering funding of up to £750. Grants are available to voluntary and community groups in Cornwall for projects that are beneficial to local residents and the local area. This fund aims to support a variety of projects that benefit local communities. Deadline: 12 February 2027.
Craven Trust 16297
The Craven Trust is offering funding of up to £1,500. Grants are available to local voluntary and community groups for projects that improve the quality of life of local people living within the Craven Trust area. The Trust supports local community projects that build better and stronger communities for the benefit of future generations in the Craven area.
Deadline: 14 September 2026
CRH Charitable Trust 16462
CRH Charitable Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for charitable and not-for-profit organisations in the North West of England that work with mental illness and mental disability. The Trust provides a small number of grants each year to support children, young people and adults in north west England who are experiencing a range of mental illnesses and mental disabilities. Deadline: 31 October 2026.
Crook Hill Community Benefit Fund 16513
Ørsteds is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available to a range of not-for-profit organisations for new or existing community and environmental projects that benefit local residents off the Cumbria and Lancashire coast. The funding is aimed at a wide range of not-for-profit groups and organisations that are working for the benefit of the local community in the area of the Crook Hill Wind Farm. Deadline: 10 February 2027.
Crowdfund Lancashire Culture and Sport Fund (with Crowdfunding) 16300
Lancashire County Council is offering funding of up to £15,000. Funding is available to not-for-profit organisations, town and parish councils, businesses and individuals who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign to deliver culture and sport projects in Lancashire.
Deadline: 17 September 2026
Croydon Almshouses Grant Fund 16544
Croydon Almshouses is offering funding of up to £30,000. Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups helping residents who experience poverty or disadvantage in Croydon. Funding is intended to tackle poverty, hardship and disadvantage in Croydon. Deadline: 28 September 2026.
Cumbria Community Foundation - Barrow Helping Barrow Fund 16302
Team Barrow is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available to community groups and charities to deliver projects that respond to local priorities and make a positive difference in Barrow. The fund supports community groups and charities to deliver projects that respond to local priorities and make a positive difference in Barrow.
Deadline: 21 September 2026
Cumbria Community Foundation - myLakeland Community Fund 16553
Lakeland Limited is offering funding of up to £15,000. Grants are available for charitable organisations for projects and activities in Cumbria that improve the health and wellbeing of local people and protect the environment, with priority for projects located in South Cumbria. This fund aims to support projects and activities in South Cumbria that improve the lives and wellbeing of residents, as well as activities that improve the environment. Deadline: 30 October 2026.
Cumbria Waste Management Environment Trust 16499
Cumbria Waste Management Environment Trust is offering funding of up to £30,000. Grants are available to community groups and organisations for environmental and community projects that are within a 10-mile radius of either Hespin Wood or Flusco Pike landfill sites (in parts of Eden, Carlisle and Allerdale). The Trust acts as a grant distribution body, and aims to fund environmental and community projects within the local authority areas of Carlisle, Eden and Allerdale, where the project is within 10 miles of Hespin Wood or Flusco Pike landfill sites. Deadline: 1 December 2026.
DCMS 'Connections Through Gaming' Pilot Fund (Boys 11-16) 16126
Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is offering funding of up to £648,000. DCMS is seeking one or more delivery partners or consortia with expertise in engaging and supporting young people to deliver a three-year 'Connections through Gaming' pilot in England. The programme will use gaming to engage boys aged 11-16 who may be experiencing loneliness, social isolation or low wellbeing. The funding is intended to support delivery of a programme that combines gaming-based activities with structured wellbeing and confidence-building support.
Deadline: 11 September 2026
Do It For East Yorkshire Community Grant 16256
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants for voluntary and community sector organisations, town and parish councils in East Riding of Yorkshire to support activity that will provide community activities to improve health and wellbeing, improve access to local resources and services, and reduce social isolation. East Riding of Yorkshire Council recognises that the cost-of-living crisis is putting unforeseen pressures on residents and community groups across the county.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Dorset Community and Culture Project Fund 16278
Dorset Council is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to community organisations in Dorset for new projects benefitting local people in the areas of the arts, museums, heritage, sport, physical and play activities. The fund's purpose is to help community organisations start new activities and events that benefit the local community.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Dorset Council - Capital Leverage Fund 16284
Dorset Council is offering funding of up to £25,000. Grants are available to community and cultural organisations for capital projects which provide new and improved facilities for local residents in Dorset.
Deadline: 10 January 2027
Dudley - Voluntary Sector New Beginnings Funding 16266
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is offering funding of up to £30,000. Grants are available to VCSE organisations in Dudley supporting newcomers (i.e., refugees, asylum seekers and migrants) into the community. Funding is available to VCSEs operating in Dudley borough to provide a range of activities and safe spaces in the community for newcomers to meet and make connections.
Deadline: 18 September 2026
Earley Charity - Organisation Grants 16529
Earley Charity is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for registered charities, voluntary and community groups, and other organisations working in Earley and East Reading to deliver a range of projects that benefit local communities. The fund will support a variety of projects and activities that benefit residents and communities in the Charity's area of benefit, with priority given to those that align with the Charity's current areas of interest. Deadline: 16 October 2026.
East Midlands Airport Community Fund 16332
East Midlands Airport is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants are for voluntary and community organisations located in areas affected by the operations of East Midlands Airport, in order to undertake projects that will have a lasting benefit, bring communities closer together through sport and recreation and offer environmental improvements and heritage conservation. The Fund awards grants to support eligible projects that have a long lasting community and/or environmental benefit to those areas most affected by the airport's operations.
Deadline: 5 October 2026
East Midlands Airport Community Sponsorship Fund 16492
East Midlands Airport is offering funding of up to £200. Small grants are for voluntary and community organisations located in areas affected by the operations of East Midlands Airport to help fund projects and events that will provide a benefit to the local community. The fund awards small grants to support projects that provide a benefit to the local community and which otherwise might not be able to take place. Deadline: 31 December 2026.
East Riding of Yorkshire - EDI Community Grant Fund 16563
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to local community groups and organisations within East Riding of Yorkshire for projects that celebrate diversity and promote community cohesion. The funding is intended to support local community groups and organisations delivering projects and activities in East Riding of Yorkshire that celebrate diversity and promote community cohesion. Deadline: 31 January 2027.
East Suffolk - Youth Fund 16352
East Suffolk Council is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants for voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise groups to support young people in East Suffolk.
Deadline: 2 October 2026
Eastern Counties Educational Trust Limited 16460
Eastern Counties Educational Trust Limited is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available for charities and organisations to support the education, training, care and welfare of people with special educational needs, particularly those under 25 years, with emotional and behavioural difficulties in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. The funding is for charities and organisations located in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, or those with projects located in this region, to support children and young people with special educational needs. Deadline: 31 October 2026.
Edward Holt Trust 16528
Edward Holt Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to constituted groups working to address poverty, disadvantage, and homelessness across Greater Manchester. This fund aims to support initiatives that alleviate poverty and disadvantage in local communities, including working with people who are homeless. Deadline: 16 October 2026.
Energy Resilience Fund 16131
Architectural Heritage Fund is offering funding of up to £250,000. A mixture of grant and loan funding is available to support community organisations and social enterprises in England to install energy saving measures or technology and purchase energy efficient or environmentally friendly vehicles or equipment. The Energy Resilience Fund provides eligible charities and social enterprises in England with a blended funding package of loan (60%) and grant (40%) to improve their energy resilience.
No deadline is stated
Enfield - Energy Champions Partnership Fund 16504
Enfield Voluntary Action is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for community and voluntary organisations across Enfield with a member of staff or long-term volunteer who is an EVA-accredited Enfield Energy Champion to deliver projects that provide energy advice for local residents and expand their energy champion's existing work through new activities. This fund aims to support groups with an existing EVA-accredited champion to deliver projects that demonstrate: Evidence of providing energy advice through an existing EVA-accredited Enfield Energy Champion. Deadline: 4 November 2026.
Enovert Community Trust 16487
Enovert Community Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations undertaking community and environmental projects located in the vicinity of Enovert's landfill sites in England. The funding is intended to support community and environmental projects in the vicinity of Enovert's operations across the UK. Deadline: 4 December 2026.
Fairhive - Thriving Communities Fund 16549
Fairhive Homes Limited is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available to voluntary and community groups for projects that improve wellbeing for the people living in the Vale of Aylesbury and beyond through participation in cultural, sporting and social activities, as well as supporting and equipping services for those most in need. Funding is intended to support voluntary and community organisations delivering projects and services in Aylesbury Vale which aim to improve the quality of life for all Vale residents. Deadline: 30 September 2026.
FCC Community Action Fund - England 16137
FCC Communities Foundation is offering funding of up to £100,000. Grants are available to not-for-profit organisations for public amenity projects eligible under Object D of the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) and located within 10 miles of an eligible FCC Environment landfill site. The funding is intended to support not-for-profit organisations with the costs of making physical improvements to single amenity sites that are open and accessible to the general public.
Deadline: 18 November 2026
Football Foundation - Facilities Grants 16145
The Football Foundation is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for the provision of capital items, or to refurbish/improve existing community football facilities in England. The funding is intended to enhance the grassroots football experience by supporting projects ranging from the purchase of goalposts to improving changing pavilions.
No deadline is stated
Football Foundation - Grass Pitch Maintenance Fund 16144
The Football Foundation is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for grassroots football organisations in England to enhance or sustain the quality of their pitch playing surfaces. The Maintenance Fund provides six-year tapered grants to help football clubs sustain pitches already at a 'good' level and enhance pitches that are either considered 'poor' or 'basic', in accordance with a PitchPower Pitch Assessment.
No deadline is stated
Football Foundation - Lionesses HERe to Play Fund 16132
The Football Foundation is offering funding of up to £25,000. Grants are available to improve football facilities for women and girls involved in grassroots football in England. The fund aims to elevate the experience of women and girls in football by creating inclusive, welcoming, and high-quality environments that support female participation at every level.
No deadline is stated
Ford Britain Trust (Small grants) 16365
Ford Britain Trust offers grants of up to £250 for capital and project costs. Open to charities, schools, sports clubs and community groups near Ford locations. Funding supports education, environmental projects, youth activities, inclusion and wider community benefit. Closing date: 31 October 2026.
Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust 16140
Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for charities for general charitable purposes in Great Britain. The Trustees have complete discretion as to the type of charitable work supported, however the Trust has focused on supporting projects relating to young people, people with disabilities, the environment and the arts over the last few years.
No deadline is stated
Gosport - Community Fund 16530
Gosport Borough Council is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for charities, communities interest companies, social enterprises, and other local community organisations in Gosport to deliver a variety of projects and activities that enhance community places, promote community cohesion, improve sustainability, develop people, skills, and provide opportunities. This fund aims to support local groups and organisations in improving community places and spaces, as well as delivering community activities. Deadline: 16 October 2026.
Gosport - Events Fund 16531
Gosport Borough Council is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available for voluntary and community groups, charities, businesses, faith groups, and schools to deliver inclusive community events in Gosport. This fund aims to support inclusive community events in the borough that bring people together, celebrate and enhance local attractions and amenities, provide local opportunities, and contribute to the local economy. Deadline: 16 October 2026.
Grassroots Football- Storage Container Grants Funding 16385
Football Foundation offers grants of up to £25,000 for capital improvements. Open to grassroots football clubs, schools, local authorities and community organisations in England. Funding supports the purchase and installation of secure on-site storage containers for football equipment and facilities. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Greenham Trust - Community Grants 16289
Greenham Trust is offering funding of up to £30,000. Grants are available for charities and not-for-profit organisations undertaking charitable activities that benefit communities in West Berkshire and North Hampshire. Funding is intended for charities and other not for profit organisations undertaking charitable activities that directly benefit local communities in West Berkshire and North Hampshire.
Deadline: 14 September 2026
Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund 16525
NHS Greenwich Charitable Funds is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for charities, community groups, voluntary organisations, social enterprises, and other organisations across the London Borough of Greenwich to deliver projects and activities that prevent and reduce health and wellbeing inequalities in local communities. This fund has two core aims: Preventing health and wellbeing inequality in Greenwich, focusing on programmes and projects that aim to tackle the contextual factors that can lead to poor health and wellbeing in the borough. Deadline: 14 December 2026.