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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Groundwork – Grassroots Grants 16127
Postcode Local Trust is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants are available for small, grassroots charities, community interest communities (CICs), and voluntary and community groups across England to deliver vital services that benefit their local communities. This fund aims to support flexible, unrestricted grants for small grassroots organisations that are working to make a positive difference in local communities, particularly those working to support marginalised or vulnerable groups.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Hadfield Charitable Trust 16305
Hadfield Charitable Trust is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for charitable organisations in Cumbria to carry out projects in the areas of social needs; youth and employment; help for older people; the arts; the environment. Funding is intended to support community projects that meet the needs of local residents and improve the quality of life for residents of the county.
Deadline: 1 October 2026
Hadrian Trust (North East England) 16310
Hadrian Trust is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants are available to help social welfare and charitable organisations working to improve the lives of people in the North East of England, particularly those working in the fields of social welfare, youth, disability, the elderly, women, ethnic minorities, education, arts and the environment.
Deadline: 12 October 2026
Halton Foundation 16524
Halton Foundation is offering funding of up to £1,500. Grants are available for community and voluntary groups across Halton to support people who are experiencing poverty, hardship, or distress. This fund aims to support projects and activities that support people in the borough of Halton across the following themes: Projects that are alleviating poverty. Deadline: 14 September 2026.
Hammersmith United Charities 16517
Hammersmith United Charities is offering funding of up to £15,000. Grants are available to constituted, not for profit organisations for projects that benefit residents of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The funding is intended to support small, local organisations with projects that will make a difference to local people and address one of the following priority areas: Meeting basic needs (food, shelter, advice etc). Deadline: 11 January 2027.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation - Michael Austin Harlick Sports Award 16540
Portsmouth City Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to sport organisations towards the cost of awards that recognise the sporting achievements of young people. The fund supports the provision of awards that recognise young people's sporting achievements. Deadline: 26 October 2026.
Hampshire County Councillor Grants 16542
Hampshire County Council is offering discretionary funding. One-off grants are available to local voluntary and community groups for projects that will benefit local residents throughout Hampshire. Funding can assist with a wide range of groups and activities. Funding is aimed at local groups and organisations for one-off revenue and small capital projects which will benefit their local area. Deadline: 28 February 2027.
Harborne Parish Lands Charity 16507
Harborne Parish Lands Charity is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for charitable organisations that assist people in need within the area defined as the Ancient Parish of Harborne (which includes a large area of Smethwick). Grants are available to support established organisations that assist people in need, within the designated geographical area, in order to protect known and valuable services at a time when they are threatened by a reduction in funding from other sources. Deadline: 5 February 2027.
Harold and Alice Bridges Charity 16298
Harold and Alice Bridges Charity is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for charitable purposes in Lancashire and South Cumbria. Grants are available to local organisations for charitable purposes in Lancashire and South Cumbria, from capital projects to grants for village halls.
Deadline: 15 September 2026
Heart of Bucks - International Day of Older People Microgrants 16292
Heart of Bucks Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £500. Grants for community-based events to celebrate older people in Buckinghamshire as part of the International Day of Older People (IDOP). The aim of the Fund is to improve social connectedness for older people, aged 65 years old and over, in Buckinghamshire by supporting community events to mark IDOP.
Deadline: 24 September 2026
Heart of Bucks - Kop Hill Climb Fund 16522
Heart of Bucks Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £7,500. Grants are available from the proceeds of the Kop Hill Climb Festival for community projects in Princes Risborough and the surrounding area. The annual Kop Hill Climb Fund aims to support community projects in the Princes Risborough and surrounding area of Buckinghamshire with a focus on projects that: Are aimed at addressing social isolation or deprivation. Deadline: 13 October 2026.
Heathrow Community Trust - Projects for Young People 16503
Heathrow Community Trust is offering funding of up to £15,000. Grants are available for local authorities, schools, charities, community groups and not-for-profit companies in Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Slough, Spelthorne, Richmond, Runnymede, Windsor, Maidenhead and South Bucks that are delivering projects that will improve the lives, employment opportunities and resilience of young people up to the age of 24. The Projects for Young People scheme aims to improve young people's lives by increasing their skills, raising their aspirations and breaking down their barriers to employment. Deadline: 2 December 2026.
Here for Hart Community Grants 16290
Hart District Council is offering funding of up to £50,000. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations in Hart District to deliver projects and activities that benefit local communities and residents. This fund aims to support initiatives that help residents to stay well, promote inclusion and community connection, and support people facing challenges.
Deadline: 14 September 2026
Hertford Town Council - Community Grant 16470
Hertford Town Council is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants for local community groups to support a range of projects and activities for the benefit of Hertford residents. The aim of the Community Grant is to support a broad range of activities and projects for all residents in Hertford. Deadline: 2 November 2026.
Heywood - Pride in Place Fund: Capital Grants 16557
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is offering funding of up to £180,000. Grants are available for voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFE) sector organisations across Heywood to support capital projects to improve community spaces. This fund aims to support capital expenditure on physical community spaces in Heywood where people come together and that enable the lives of Heywood residents to be improved. Deadline: 30 November 2026.
HornSea 3 - Fisheries Fund 16475
Orsted - HornSea 3 is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants for community projects that directly benefit the fishing industry operating in the same areas as the Kittiwake artificial nesting structures (from Corton, north of Lowestoft, to Sizewell). The HornSea 3 Fisheries Fund supports a range of community projects that benefit the fishing industry in the coastal areas from Corton to Sizewell. Deadline: 11 November 2026.
HornSea 3 - Legacy Fund 16485
Orsted - HornSea 3 is offering funding of up to £100,000. A grant for a single capital flagship project that is Inspired by Green in the coastal and cable route areas of east Suffolk and Norfolk. The HornSea 3 Legacy Fund supports capital costs for community buildings/facilities or environmental projects for coastal areas of Norfolk and Suffolk. Deadline: 2 December 2026.
HornSea 3 - Main Community Fund 16486
Orsted - HornSea 3 is offering funding of up to £75,000. Grants for a range of community projects to benefit residents living in the coastal and cable route areas of east Suffolk and Norfolk. The HornSea 3 Main Community Fund aims to support a range of initiatives to benefit local residents living in coastal areas of Norfolk and Suffolk. Deadline: 2 December 2026.
Hounslow Council - Thriving Communities Fund Small Grants 16317
London Borough of Hounslow is offering funding of up to £1,500. Grants are available to support voluntary and community groups across the London Borough of Hounslow to carry out activities and projects that promote community cohesion. The funding aims to support community and voluntary organisations and groups with locally based, small-scale, impactful community projects promoting social cohesion, civic pride and volunteering.
Closing date: 18 January 2026
Hull and East Riding Charitable Trust 16264
Hull and East Riding Charitable Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to registered charities and charitable organisations for any charitable purposes the Trustees think fit within the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire area. The Trust will fund any charitable purposes the Trustees think fit within the Hull and East Riding area.
Deadline: 20 October 2026
Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner - Community Safety Fund 16262
Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner is offering funding of up to £35,000. Grants are available for local community organisations to kick-start local projects that will cut crime and antisocial behaviour and improve feelings of safety across the Humber area. The funding is for projects that will contribute to reducing crime/antisocial behaviour and/or improving community safety, supporting the delivery of the Police and Crime Plan (2024-2029), which has three aims: Engaged, Resilient and Inclusive Communities.
Deadline: 7 October 2026
I AM Brent – Community Microgrants 16325
I AM Brent is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for charities and other not-for-profit organisations in the London Borough of Brent to deliver projects and activities aimed at young people to reduce violence in local communities. This fund aims to support projects designed to benefit young people aged 25 and under, their families or community members who live, work, study, or spend substantial time in at least one of the following areas: Chalkhill Estate.
Deadline: 27 September 2026
Inspire Hounslow 16320
Inspire Hounslow is offering grants (large and small) for organisations across Hounslow to deliver projects and activities that support young people across Hounslow. This fund aims to support projects and activities that benefit disadvantaged young people who work, live, or study in Hounslow.
Closing date: 8th January 2027 (large grants)
International Day of Disabled People 2026 - Small Grants Fund for Leeds 16259
Leeds City Council is offering funding of up to £600. A small number of grants are available for Leeds-based constituted groups to support activities in Leeds that celebrate and recognise the International Day of Disabled People (IDODP). The funding is intended to support activities that provide opportunities for disabled people to come together, participate and have their voices heard.
Deadline: 25 September 2026
Islington - Local Initiatives Fund 16323
London Borough of Islington Council is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups in Islington to deliver events, activities or projects which bring benefit to local residents. Funding is intended to support locally run initiatives that will have a positive impact on the local community.
Deadline: 21 January 2027
J G Graves Charitable Trust 16260
The JG Graves Charitable Trust is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available for local charitable organisations undertaking benevolent projects in Sheffield, with a preference for supporting capital projects. Established by J.G.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Jack Petchey Foundation – Educational Visit Grants 16148
Jack Petchey Foundation is offering funding of up to £1,200. Grants are available for schools, colleges, and non-uniformed youth organisations in London and Essex to support educational experiences and opportunities for young people aged between 11 and 25 to learn outside of the traditional classroom environment. This fund aims to support schools and youth organisations with the costs of making visits to museums, theatres, science shows and other educational experiences to help young people to develop a wide range of valuable personal and social skills.
No deadline is stated
John Apthorp Charity 16086
The John Apthorp Charity is offering discretionary funding for one-off captial expenditure. Grants are available for projects which help the young, the elderly, the disabled and the general community, the funding is intended for registered charities who have new and specific projects that benefit the residents of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Rolling applications: The trustees meet four times a year to review applications
KCC Village and Community Hall Grants 16575
Kent County Council is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to the management committees of village and community halls in Kent for capital projects to improve an existing facility or build a new one that meets an identified need in the community. The aim of the grant scheme is to give support to active local communities that rely on their village/community hall to provide a venue for a wide variety of activities and services. Deadline: 31 December 2026.
Kingsley Community Fund 16274
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire is offering funding of up to £20,000. Grants are available to community organisations who provide facilities or services for people in the parish of Kingsley for projects to enhance or improve their provision, make their organisation more efficient, or to provide facilities to the local community. The funding is intended to enhance the provision of service and to help make organisations more efficient, to improve the scope of their provision, or to provide facilities to the community of the parish of Kingsley.
Deadline: 31 October 2026
Legacy Leisure - Community Grant 16382
Legacy Leisure offers grants of up to £1,000 for sport and physical activity projects. Open to charities, CICs, schools, sports clubs and community groups. Funding supports initiatives that improve health, wellbeing and participation in sport and leisure activities. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Letchworth Garden City - Community Investment Fund (Wellbeing Through Nature) 16069
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants for groups to improve resident's wellbeing in Letchworth Garden City through engagement with nature. The aims of the nature engagement programme are to support fully or part-funded projects that: Ensure communities have access to information on green spaces and nature-based activities, and how they can improve wellbeing.
Next deadline: 14 September 2026
Lincolnshire - Michael Cornish Core Grants Programme 16263
Lincolnshire Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to support the activities of charitable and not-for-profit constituted community organisations working to benefit people in Greater Lincolnshire. The funding aims to empower and support the resilience of community organisations with the potential to change lives for the better across Lincolnshire.
Deadline: 16 October 2026
Lincolnshire - Q Futures Community Fund 16344
Lincolnshire Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to support projects across Greater Lincolnshire that are creating employment, training and skills opportunities, helping local people to thrive now and in the future. The fund aims to support not-for-profit groups working to improve and create employment and training opportunities in communities across Greater Lincolnshire.
Deadline: 1 November 2026
Lincolnshire - Q Futures Community Fund 16468
Lincolnshire Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to support projects across Greater Lincolnshire that are creating employment, training and skills opportunities, helping local people to thrive now and in the future. The fund aims to support not-for-profit groups working to improve and create employment and training opportunities in communities across Greater Lincolnshire. Deadline: 1 November 2026.
London - Green Roots Fund 16523
Greater London Authority (GLA) is offering funding of up to £500,000. Grants are available for not-for-profit, public and civil society organisations across London to support projects to create and improve green and blue infrastructure in London. Funding is for projects that: Enhance blue and green infrastructure in London, making neighbourhoods healthier, more nature-rich and climate resilient, so that they are higher quality and natural spaces are better connected. Deadline: 14 January 2027.
London Communities Micro Grant Fund 16322
Thrive LDN is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for grassroots community groups across London to support projects and activities that serve marginalised communities and promote community wellbeing, resilience, and belonging. The fund aims to support grassroots and community-led organisations working with some of London's marginalised and underserved communities to deliver project and activities that support wellbeing, resilience, and belonging.
Deadline: 21 September 2026
Love Luton Community Award Fund 16461
Love Luton is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available to charities and community organisations for projects and initiatives that benefit of people in Luton. Funding is to support charitable organisations in Luton with community projects, events or initiatives that will engage the local community, improve the image of Luton and enhance people's belief in the town, and drive a thriving local economy. Deadline: 31 October 2026.
Luton Rising Small Grants 16107
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants for community organisations in Luton for activities that benefit the local community and meet the fund's identified objectives. The fund aims to provide awards for projects run by community groups based in Luton or working for the benefit of the people living there.
Deadline: 29 September 2026
Martin Trust for Young People 16490
Martin Trust is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants are available to individuals or local voluntary youth organisations for projects that directly benefit young people living in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. The Trust aims to directly benefit young people living in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. Deadline: 16 December 2026.