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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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Cambridge City Council - Large Community Grants 16098
Cambridge City Council is offering funding of up to £10,000 per year for up to three years. Grants are available to local voluntary and community organisations delivering recurring activities or projects that benefit Cambridge residents. Funding is intended to support local voluntary and community groups to deliver recurring activities and projects that contribute to a fairer, greener and more inclusive Cambridge, supporting the vision of 'One Cambridge – Fair for All'.
Deadline: 22 September 2026
Cambridge City Council - Organisation Support Grants 16099
Cambridge City Council is offering funding of up to £40,000. Grants are available to established voluntary and community organisations in Cambridge to plan ahead, build resilience and deliver long-term impact. These grants provide unrestricted, multi-year funding to established voluntary and community organisations with a strong presence in Cambridge and a track record of delivering significant benefit to residents.
Deadline: 22 September 2026
Cardiff - Period Dignity Grant 16239
City of Cardiff Council is offering funding of up to £2,000. Grants are available to voluntary and community organisations in the Cardiff local authority area for projects to ensure period dignity for those who menstruate from low income households. The aim of the funding is to ensure low income households have access to free-of-charge period products that are accessible in a practical and dignified way.
No deadline is stated
Causeway Coast and Glens - Building a United Community Fund 16218
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council is offering funding of up to £1,500. Grants are available to support Good Relations community projects in the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area. The funding is intended to support projects that develop positive relationships between people of differing religious beliefs, political opinions and racial backgrounds in the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area.
No deadline is stated
Causeway Coast and Glens - Health and Wellbeing Grants 16219
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available for local sporting and community organisations in the Causeway Coast and Glens area to promote positive mental health through physical and mental wellbeing activities.
No deadline is stated
Causeway Coast and Glens - Policing and Community Safety Partnership (PCSP) Small Grants Programme 16214
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council is offering funding of up to £1,000. Grants are available to support, promote and develop community safety initiatives in the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area. The funding is intended to provide organisations with support for projects or events that will help prevent, reduce or address crime and help people feel safer in their own communities.
Deadline: 29 January 2027
Causeway Coast and Glens - Sports Grant and Bursary Programme 16220
Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council is offering funding of up to £400. Grants are available for local sport clubs, individuals and National Governing Bodies to develop sport in the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area.
No deadline is stated
Charles and Elsie Sykes Trust 16253
Charles and Elsie Sykes Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to registered charities for projects that benefit Yorkshire through the relief of need, particularly those related to youth, old age, welfare and medicine. The Trust aims to fund projects for the relief of need, particularly those related to youth, old age, welfare and medicine.
No deadline is stated
Charles Littlewood Hill Trust 16089
Charles Littlewood Hill Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for charitable organisations carrying out social welfare or community activities in Nottinghamshire or Norfolk. The scheme is intended to support organisations undertaking a range of charitable purposes.
Next deadline: 20 September 2026
Charnwood - Community Grants 16329
Charnwood Borough Council is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to community and voluntary organisations within Charnwood Borough which are currently running projects that benefit Charnwood residents. Funding is intended to provide grants to a wide variety of voluntary and community organisations within Charnwood to further the Council's aims and actively assist the community to enjoy a better quality of life, particularly where those projects would not otherwise go ahead.
Deadline: 25 September 2026
Clare Milne Trust 16277
The Clare Milne Trust is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for registered charities that are working to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities in Devon and Cornwall. The Clare Milne Trust aims to help smaller effective charities with good volunteer support with their work for the disabled in or close to Devon and Cornwall.
Deadline: 28 September 2026
Clarion Futures West Ealing Community Grants Programme 16324
Clarion Housing Group is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to charities and community organisations for projects that benefit the residents and the wider community in the West Ealing area. The West Ealing Community Grants programme is intended for not-for-profit organisations seeking to deliver well designed projects for the benefit of residents and the wider community in the West Ealing area.
Deadline: 23 September 2026
Clocaenog Forest Wind Farm Fund 16234
RWE Renewables UK Limited is offering funding of up to £100,000. Grants are available for projects benefiting communities within the rural area of Conwy and Denbighshire. Funding is available to support community based projects that will make a positive difference to the lives of the residents of Conwy and Denbighshire.
No deadline is stated
Clyde Borders Community Fund 16240
SSE is offering funding of up to £25,000. Grants are available for constituted, not-for-profit organisations to deliver activities that promote community spirit, enhance wellbeing, and help create sustainable communities in Skirling, Upper Tweed, and Tweedsmuir. This fund aims to support constituted, not-for-profit groups to deliver activities and projects that promote community spirit, bring people together, enhance wellbeing and quality of life, and foster vibrant, sustainable communities in Skirling, Upper Tweed, and Tweedsmuir.
Deadline: 2 October 2026
Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Coalfields Community Grants Programme Wales 16155
Welsh Government is offering funding of up to £7,000. Capital grants are available for voluntary and community organisations in coalfield areas of Wales to safeguard, maintain, and/or improve their community facility. The funding is intended to support community and voluntary organisations to maintain or improve community facilities and buildings they own or manage on a long-term lease, for the benefit of coalfield communities in Wales.
No deadline is stated
Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) - Community Buildings Fund 16186
Scottish Government is offering funding of up to £80,000. Grants are available for community groups in Scotland to decarbonise community buildings. The funding aims to help community organisations reduce their building's energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
Deadline: 30 October 2026
Community Energy Growth Fund 16066
Scottish Government is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for community groups across Scotland to help their communities develop, own and benefit from renewable energy projects. The funding can support community-owned renewable electricity generation projects, including solar PV, wind and hydro, and the integration of energy storage and demand flexibility technologies.
Deadline: 14 September 2026
Community Facilities Programme (Wales) 16156
Welsh Government is offering funding of up to £300,000. Capital grants are available for community-led voluntary and community sector organisations to develop and improve community facilities in Wales in order to tackle poverty and its effects. The funding is intended to help organisations develop and improve facilities for communities in order to tackle poverty and its effects, increasing opportunity, creating prosperity for all, and developing resilient communities where people are engaged and empowered.
No deadline is stated
Community First Prime Opportunities Fund 16254
Two Ridings Community Foundation is offering funding of up to £500. Grants are available for not-for-profit organisation serving communities in York, North Yorkshire, Hull and East Riding for projects that address issues creating barriers for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds from reaching their full potential. Projects should aim to remove barriers that prevent young people (from 11 to 19 years old) from disadvantaged backgrounds living in York, North Yorkshire, Hull and East Riding from reaching their full potential and where opportunities would otherwise be beyond their reach.
No deadline is stated
Community Foundation for Calderdale 16255
Community Foundation for Calderdale is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups and organisations for projects and activities that benefit communities within Calderdale. The Community Foundation for Calderdale offers funding that makes real and lasting changes to local lives, believing that understanding needs and issues in a community are the first step to being able to solve them.
No deadline is stated
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
Corra Foundation – Boost Small Grants 16170
STV Children's Appeal is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available to support grassroots organisations and charities delivering community-led activities to children and families across Scotland affected by poverty. This fund aims to ensure accessible, supportive, community-led activities remain available to children and families despite the challenges the cost-of-living poses for charities and community groups.
No deadline is stated
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
Cripplegate Foundation - Islington Community Chest 16321
Cripplegate Foundation is offering funding of up to £5,000. Grants are available to groups based in Islington for a wide range of projects that support Islington residents. This fund aims to support a range of projects that support disadvantaged Islington residents and contribute towards the Council's 2030 Missions.
Deadline: 21 September 2026
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
Cruden Foundation Limited 16187
Cruden Foundation Limited is offering discretionary funding. Grants are available for registered charities in Scotland working for the support and improvement of their local community. This fund aims to support charitable projects and activities in Scotland for the benefit of people living there.
No deadline is stated
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
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
Digital Learning Grant 16112
JustGiving is offering discretionary funding. Fully funded places are available for charity fundraisers to develop their digital fundraising skills through online training, coaching and learning resources. The Digital Learning Grant aims to help fundraisers and charity professionals strengthen their digital fundraising knowledge, confidence and capability.
Deadline: 12 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
East Ayrshire Council – Community Grants to Local Organisations 16083
East Ayrshire Council is offering funding of up to £3,000. Grants are available for local voluntary organisations to support community-based projects in East Ayrshire. This fund aims to support voluntary organisations in East Ayrshire delivering a wide variety of activities that benefit residents, local areas, and the environment.
Deadline: 17 September 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
Endrick Trust 16241
Endrick Trust is offering funding of up to £50,000. Funding is available to registered charities in Greater Glasgow for general charitable purposes, in particular the relief of poverty and community development. Funding is available to support charitable causes in the Greater Glasgow area.
Deadline: 2 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