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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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Each fund has its own eligibility criteria. If you find a fund that looks suitable, please open the website link and read the guidance carefully before applying.
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Northumberland High Sheriff Awards Fund 16313
Community Foundation North East is offering funding of up to £1,000. Awards are made in recognition of groups in Northumberland 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 provide constructive and developmental activities for young people aged between 10 and 25 years old.
Deadline: 26 October 2026
Oldham – Rotary Community Grant 16303
Chadderton and Failsworth Rotary Club is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available for constituted voluntary groups in Oldham to deliver projects and activities that bring people together and make a difference in local communities. This fund aims to support groups and organisations to deliver projects and activities that benefit local people and address specific priorities in their communities.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Pembrokeshire - South Hook LNG Community Fund 16232
Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services (PAVS) is offering funding of up to £5,000. Financial assistance is available to local, not-for-profit organisations and community groups in Pembrokeshire to assist with the costs of community projects and initiatives. The funding is intended to support projects and initiatives which: Support communities in Pembrokeshire.
Deadline: 2 November 2026
Port of Milford Haven's Community Fund 16350
Milford Haven Port Authority is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to charities, voluntary organisations, community organisations and social enterprises working within Pembrokeshire for projects and events that benefit local communities. The funding is intended for projects and events that support community action and the Port's aims of maintaining safety on the waterway, protecting the environment and creating opportunities for future generations.
Deadline: 16 November 2026
Power NI - Brighter Communities Fund 16162
Power NI is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to charitable, sports and community organisations in Northern Ireland for equipment purchases or projects and activities that enhance their offering within their local community. The funding is intended to enable community organisations in Northern Ireland to 'shine a little brighter', whether that is through acquiring equipment, a revamp of their space, or providing resources for their service users.
No deadline is stated
Queensberry House Trust 16077
Queensberry House Trust is offering funding of up to £15,000. Grants are available to registered charities and social enterprises in Edinburgh and the Lothians for projects focused on improving the lives of vulnerable older people. The Trust's objective is ' the advancement of citizenship and community development (including the promotion of civic responsibility, volunteering, the voluntary sector or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities), and also having regard, but not exclusively, to the locality.
Deadline: 15 September 2026
Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation - Grants for Community Photography 16116
Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation is offering funding of up to £1,500. Grants are available to support the provision of participatory projects in the UK which seek to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people under 25. The use of photography must be a core element of the project. The funding is intended to support children and young adults under the age of 25 to take part in organised activities that allow them hands-on experience of photographic techniques.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Riverhorse Trust 16117
Riverhorse Trust is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for small UK registered charities with limited resources who are working to deliver frontline services in their communities. The Trust is looking to support organisations that are 'impactful and committed to investing in their own resilience'.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Robert Clutterbuck Charitable Trust 16138
The Robert Clutterbuck Charitable Trust is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales with a preference for projects in Cheshire and Hertfordshire. The Trust awards grants to registered charities to support projects rather than running costs.
Deadline: 31 December 2026
Robertson Trust - Wee Grants 16198
Robertson Trust is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for small charities and community groups in Scotland carrying out charitable work in local communities to address poverty and trauma. The Trust launched a funding strategy for 2020-30 which aims to provide £200 million in funding over the next 10 years to help to improve the lives of people and communities experiencing poverty and trauma.
No deadline is stated
Roger and Douglas Turner Charitable Trust 16272
The Roger and Douglas Turner Charitable Trust is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to registered charities based in Birmingham, the Black Country, Worcestershire and Herefordshire for projects that support the Trust's priorities. The grants are for registered charities working in the following key areas: adults in need, young people in need, mental health support, poverty and the enviornment.
Deadline: 23 October 2026
Roughley Trust 16268
The Roughley Trust is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available to Birmingham-registered local charities for projects supporting community work, special needs, health and wellbeing, education, arts and leisure, heritage, and the environment. The funding is intended to support registered charities addressing special needs, deprivation and disadvantage, promoting health and wellbeing, education and community development, and encouraging engagement with the arts, heritage and environment.
Deadline: 1 October 2026
Rushcliffe – Community Wellbeing Fund 16331
Rushcliffe Borough Council is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants are available to support community wellbeing projects that are helping to tackle social isolation, loneliness and cost of living pressures in the borough. The funding is intended to support town and parish councils, local groups and community organisations to set up, sustain or expand projects that improve inclusivity and wellbeing within the Rushcliffe Borough.
Deadline: 2 October 2026
Scottish Gambling Education Hub – Gambling Education Youth Fund 16200
GambleAware is offering funding of up to £500. Grants are available for groups of young people across Scotland to deliver gambling education and prevention projects and activities. This fund aims to enable youth workers and young people to transform their ideas into action and create their own local gambling education and prevention project.
No deadline is stated
SIIC Grant Scheme 2026 16267
Shropshire Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to voluntary and community organisations in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin to support young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) to improve their skills, resilience and employability. The fund aims to address the challenges faced by unemployed young people by supporting innovative projects, services and initiatives that provide education and training.
Deadline: 25 September 2026
South Lanarkshire Council - Renewable Energy Fund Grants 16078
South Lanarkshire Council is offering grants for community-based capital projects within 10km of a participating renewable energy development in South Lanarkshire. Main grants of over £20,000 are avilable as well as smaller grants of less than £20,000.
Deadline: 15 September 2026
Sport Northern Ireland - Creating Opportunities (with Crowdfunding) 16158
National Lottery is offering funding of up to £5,000. Match funding is available to community organisations in Northern Ireland for innovative crowdfunding projects aimed at promoting accessibility and inclusion in sports, coaching, officiating and leadership for traditionally excluded groups. The funding is intended to connect communities across Northern Ireland, increasing participation in sport and physical activity.
Deadline: 29 January 2027
Sports Charity Scotland 16163
Sports Charity Scotland is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to charitable organisations in Scotland who operate within sectors representing children, young people and sport. The funding is intended to provide support which can make a significant difference to the delivery of existing activities that will benefit children and young people, the disabled and disadvantaged in Scotland.
No deadline is stated
St Olave’s Foundation Fund 16319
St Olave’s Foundation Fund is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available for youth groups and schools in the London Borough of Southwark for educational projects and activities for young people. This fund aims to support activities for young people under the age of 25 years old in pursuit of education and who are residents in the London Borough of Southwark.
Deadline: 14 September 2026
Stirling - Community Get Active Fund 16070
Stirling Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants for local groups and organisations to deliver sport and physical activities for children and young people aged 3 to 26 years old. The Fund aims to support inclusive physical activities to encourage children and young people (aged 3 to 26 years old) to improve their physical and mental wellbeing.
Deadline: 14 September 2026
Sunrise Medical Community Fund 16119
Sunrise Medical is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for community groups, sports clubs, disability organisations, and individuals across the UK to support projects and improvements that make community spaces and experiences more accessible and help to create more wheelchair-friendly and inclusive environments. This fund aims to support a variety of projects and activities that help wheelchair users and disabled people to enjoy greater independence, inclusion, and opportunity.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Tewkesbury - Warm Spaces Grant 16280
Tewkesbury Borough Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to not-for-profit community venues in Tewkesbury Borough that provide free, warm, welcoming and safe spaces for local residents during the winter months. The funding is intended to support community venues to provide Warm Spaces where local residents can socialise, eat, stay warm and take part in activities during the winter months.
Deadline: 1 October 2026
Thomas Wall Trust - Grants for Registered Charities 16178
Thomas Wall Trust is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for UK registered charities for specific projects that improves communication skills for disadvantaged adults and supports NEET people into employment. The Trust views communication skills as critical capabilities for people who want to improve their employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances.
Deadline: 11 September 2026
Twinkl Community Collection support fund 16339
Community Collection is a monthly support fund for schools, community groups, and educators, and it's totally free to enter. The fund offers support to help schools, educators and educational settings bring their projects to life. Recipients receive the funds to decide how they want to use them, whether it is for a new sensory room, more equipment for outdoor/active play, or, as one recent recipient used it, a brand new mud kitchen!).
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Funding Amount: A £1,000 cash grant. A new giveaway is open each month.
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Eligibility: Open to all UK schools, community groups, and registered educational charities.
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Criteria: A simple 5-minute application (100 words or less) explaining how the funds will be used.
September deadline: 30/09/2026
Veolia Telford and Wrekin EnviroGrant Scheme 16275
Telford and Wrekin Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations in Telford and Wrekin to support projects that benefit the local community or the environment. This fund aims to support community groups in Telford and Wrekin with projects that: Improve or protect the local environment through practical action/education.
Deadline: 31 October 2026
Veolia's Sustainability Fund 16203
Veolia UK is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations and community groups in areas where Veolia partners with the local authority to support projects that will help transform their local community or environment. The funding is intended to support projects that make a positive, sustainable difference to local areas and deliver long-term social and environmental benefits with the aim of empowering local people to take positive action in their local area.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
Vernon Charitable Foundation 16301
Vernon Charitable Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to registered charities and community organisations to deliver projects and activities that address poverty and support community development across Stockport, Cheshire, and Greater Manchester. This fund aims to support local charities providing public benefit in local communities, focussed on the prevention and relief of poverty and community development.
Deadline: 18 September 2026
Walter Dickie Leadership Bursary 16151
Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) is offering funding of up to £2,500. A bursary is available to provide financial support for an individual working in Wales' voluntary sector seeking to develop their leadership skills. The funding is intended to support a selected individual engaged in Wales' voluntary sector to become a better leader.
Deadline: 16 October 2026
Wandsworth – Community Access Revenue Grant Fund 16079
Wandsworth Borough Council is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the London Borough of Wandsworth to deliver sports and physical activities initiatives that benefit local communities. This fund aims to support new sport and physical activity programmes that directly benefit residents of the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Deadline: 15 September 2026
WAT IF? Local Community Grant 16243
WAT IF? is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants for a range of community projects to benefit the local residents of Woolfords, Auchengray and Tarbrax in South Lanarkshire. Grants from the WAT IF?
Deadline: 14 October 2026
We Love Lichfield Fund 16273
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to community and voluntary organisations in Lichfield for projects and activities that will make a real difference to the lives of local residents. The We Love Lichfield Fund aims to enhance the provision of service, provide new services or to help make organisations more efficient or to improve the scope of their provision.
Deadline: 23 October 2026
We Love MCR Charity - Stronger Communities Fund 16299
We Love MCR Charity is offering funding of up to £4,000. Grants are available to local community and charity groups for projects in Manchester that improve their local communities. Funding is intended to assist local charities, community groups and organisations working to improve the lives and life chances of people living in Manchester and to help develop stronger communities by encouraging more citizens to be active in working together.
Deadline: 15 September 2026
We Love the Moorlands 16270
Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to community and voluntary organisations in Staffordshire Moorlands for projects and activities that will make a real difference to the lives of local residents. Funding is intended to assist local organisations with projects and activities that will help benefit the residents in Staffordshire Moorlands and bring communities together.
Deadline: 20 October 2026
Whitbread Plc Chairman's Fund 16106
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available for locally based small charities and community groups in South Bedfordshire for projects that focus on skills and inclusion, reducing rural social isolation and community cohesion. The aim of the fund is to provide financial support to charities and community groups across South Bedfordshire, including Dunstable, Houghton Regis, Leighton Buzzard and the surrounding rural communities, as far as the county boundary to the south west.
Deadline: 29 September 2026
William Dudley Trust 16269
William Dudley Trust is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available for small Birmingham-based charities working to alleviate need, hardship and distress. Funding is intended to support projects run by small local charities to alleviate hardship, need or distress.
Deadline: 9 October 2026
Wiltshire - Older People's Programme 16276
Wiltshire and Swindon Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £10,000. Grants are available to voluntary and community groups for projects in Wiltshire and Swindon supporting older people to be independent, healthy and socially included. The aim of the grant programme is to support the residents of Swindon and Wiltshire aged 65 and over through: Improving health and wellbeing.
Deadline: 21 September 2026
Wise Music Foundation 16343
Wise Music Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants for small organisations in the UK to address education, cultural activities and arts & heritage, health issues, food banks and other worthy causes. The funding is intended to support groups who work with people experiencing hardship, distress and illness in the UK.
Deadline: 30 November 2026
Wokingham - Grants for Voluntary Organisations 16288
Wokingham Town Council is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to voluntary and community organisations for projects that directly benefit the residents of Wokingham Town. The scheme aims to provide funding to voluntary groups, charities or any organisation that has a project that directly benefits the residents of Wokingham Town.
Deadline: 11 September 2026
YAPP Charitable Trust 16134
YAPP Charitable Trust is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants to support the running costs of small registered charities in England and Wales working with elderly people, children and young people and people who have disabilities or mental health challenges, or working in the areas of social welfare or education and learning. The Yapp Charitable Trust makes grants to small charities in England and Wales to help sustain their existing work.
No deadline is stated
Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation - Small Change Big Difference Fund 16206
Yorkshire Building Society is offering funding of up to £2,500. Grants to support registered charities and good causes in local communities across the UK to alleviate poverty, improve health and save lives. The aims of the Fund are to alleviate poverty and improve health/save lives, particularly for those living in areas of deprivation.
Deadline: 30 September 2026