SOURCES OF GRANT AID & FUNDING FOR CRICkET CLUBS IN WALES and Cricket Wales Information DEVELOPING YOUR CLUB ecb.co.uk Your Cricket Development Officer (CDO) INTRODUCTION can also offer you valuable advice on Introduction Landfill Communities 30 development planning and funding. The 16 Fund Raising the money to carry contact address for your CDO can be found Putting your 2 at www.cricketwales.org.uk 1 application together SportsAid 32 out your plans is without 17 Also listed for your convenience are all the doubt the most challenging addresses of the Regional Offices of Sport England and Wales 4 The Football 32 Wales on page 42. 2 Cricket Board 18 Foundation task faced by cricket club For further advice concerning grant aid or committees and members. funding you may also contact Mike Turner, England and Wales 7 The Coalfields 33 MBE, ECB Consultant, on (0116) 283 1615. 3 19 Through this publication the England & Wales Cricket Trust Regeneration Trust There is no charge as this advisory service Cricket Board (ECB) has set out to help steer is provided by the England and Wales you through many of the grant aid and The Cricket Foundation 11 The Co-operative 33 Cricket Board. 4 20 Membership development funding agencies which exist If you require information about technical Community Fund and to give you an insight into their respective 5 Sport Wales 12 funding criteria. You will also find a number guidance notes or wish to make a general of ideas and issues to consider when enquiry about facility development, telephone Charitable Trusts 34 Community Facilities 15 21 preparing applications. the ECB on 0161 877 6643, 6 and Activities email: [email protected] or refer to the Programme 22 Breweries 34 website www.ecb.co.uk/funding Also in this booklet, on page 37, is a complete 7 The Big Lottery 16 23 European Commission 35 section with general information about Cricket Wales. Swalec Community 18 24 Publications 36 8 Development Fund on Fundraising – Directory of Social Change 9 The Dickie Bird 20 – Youth Funding Guide Foundation – National Council for Voluntary Organisations 10 The Lord’s Taverners 20 25 Technical Guidance 36 11 Local Authorities 22 Notes Rate Reductions 24 26 Cricket Wales 37 12 and Relief Community Amateur 26 13 Sports Clubs 14 Charity Clubs 28 Fields in Trust 30 15 This publication was compiled by: F M TURNER, MBE, ECB Consultant, who may be contacted on (0116) 283 1615 should you require further information. SOuRCES OF GRAnT AID AnD FunDInG FOR CRICkET CluBS In WAlES 1 Tips to Achieving a Successful Application: — Check how much you are — Consider every possible 1. PUTTINg YOUR — You should demonstrate how your project eligible for. Some funding option available including represents value for money. agencies make provision sponsorship, Sportsmatch, in certain urban and rural donations, loans, fund APPlication — Emphasise your level of need for financial areas for additional support. raising activities etc. support (based on your annual accounts). TOgeTheR — Ensure your chosen — You should give the — Make sure your application is honest and funding organisations are funding agency full 1.1 Planning you request only funds you require. complimentary. Some recognition for any support Careful planning to ensure your ambitions — Be prepared to undergo a process of agencies will not commit – letters of thanks, plaques, are realistic and right for your club is critical. monitoring by funding agencies. Some to funding if certain others local publicity etc., should As a minimum clubs need to have clear aims agencies reserve the right to reclaim have been applied to. be considered to recognise and objectives about what the club wants to funding if they are not satisfied with its use. their generosity. achieve in the form of a Development Plan or — Ensure the tenure of your — Demonstrate a degree of “self-help” Business Plan. Within these plans you should ground is of sufficient – whether in cash or in kind (labour, show how the facility will support the delivery length as set by respective expertise, etc.). Most funding agencies set of the aims and objectives. funding agencies. Most a minimum portion as “self-help”. funding agencies require Your plan forms a statement — Have contingency plans in the event of a a minimum of ten years rejected application or a reduced award. lease, freehold, or other of your future intentions and security of tenure. 1.3 Approaching the Relevant will demonstrate to funding — Do not start any projects Funding Organisations agencies how your plans will or plans before you receive It is important that you choose the correct official written notice of satisfy their requirements funding agency(s) for your respective plan/ award or permission to adding to the cricket elements within your plan. go ahead. Most funding Each organisation has its own particular agencies will not fund provision in your area criteria and requirements. It is therefore retrospectively. vital that you make contact with the individual It is also important at this stage to identify organisation and match your plans to its a timescale outlining when you intend to respective criteria before you compile implement each element of your plans. an application. 1.2 Costing Your Plan Tips to Achieving a Successful Application Once you have assessed what you currently — Your application must demonstrate clear have, and decided upon your chosen future plans in accordance with the criteria of the direction, it is vital you then put some detailed respective funding agency. costings to your plans. These can be in the form of quotations from contractors — Where necessary forward any consultation and/or suppliers or costs in “man hours” forms as required by the funding agency. (e.g. a contribution in kind). — Submit your application ahead of deadlines This will help you assess what financial set by respective funding agencies. support you will need and allow you to chart — Apply to the number of funding your best possible route to obtain the funds organisations you need to ensure the your proposed developments require. funding you require. — Identify, where necessary in your application(s), other sources of partnership funding. — Include details of other confirmed awards and, where not confirmed, when you expect to hear a decision. 2 SOuRCES OF GRAnT AID AnD FunDInG FOR CRICkET CluBS In WAlES SOuRCES OF GRAnT AID AnD FunDInG FOR CRICkET CluBS In WAlES 3 — Any equipment purchases or facilities you 1 PuTTInG YOuR install should meet certain design and/or The SInGlE InvestmenT System performance criteria. For guidance please APPlICATIOn TOGETHER refer to relevant Sport England Guidance continued notes and ECB technical guidance notes Eligible Club undertakes a review of the Ineligible (contact your CDO for details). proposed project with their local Cricket projects do 1.4 Prepare Your Application 1 Development Officer (CDO) not proceed — Utilise all the help that is available from past this stage — Make sure your plans are thorough, have ECB, the respective funding agency, been costed and have an identified timescale. consultants and Sport Wales. — Ensure you have, and can identify, the You should now be in a position to complete CDO puts forward a recommendation Ineligible people and resources available to you and submit a strong application for funding. to their ECB Facilities and Investment projects do to run the project after it has been built, There are many organisations which have 2 manager to review the proposed not proceed installed or set up. money available. The following pages offer project past this stage — Where relevant, your application should details of the many agencies you may outline how your plans provide for: consider applying to. Your CDO is a vital women, people with disabilities and source of information. Proposed project is accepted by the The project ECB Facilities and Investment manager may be “minority” groups. 3 deferred at — Where relevant, demonstrate how your this stage plans have strategic relevance – refer to the 2 eNglAND & County, Regional and/or national Cricket/ WAleS CRICKeT Sport Development Plans. — Consult as widely as possible before BOARD Project is case managed by the ECB submitting your application(s). 2.1 Application Process/ECB Single Facilities and Investment manager — Ensure the timescale of your plans are in 4 Investment System line with that of your funding agency(s). The ECB has developed a Single Investment — Plan your cash flow thoroughly as some System (SIS) to manage all funding funding agencies will only release funds applications which it administers: A detailed desk top assessment of the upon completion of works. — ECB Grant Aid Programme (page 6) completed application will be performed. — Demonstrate the benefits of your plans The Club will be notified of the outcome. — England and Wales Cricket Trust (EWCT) to an identified local or wider community. Interest Free loan Scheme (page 7) 5 The England and Wales Cricket Board — Emphasise the benefit to the local Limited will endeavour to reach a community of your plans. Where necessary The Single Investment System has been decision on a fully complete application identify how many hours a week your designed to capture all of the components within 30 working days facility or project will be available for which Clubs are required to fulfil when community use. developing a funding application, Successful Clubs will receive a contract — Make provisions for junior usage, quality using a simple step by step process, offer letter which will include the Terms coaching and supervised activity of juniors; as shown opposite: and Conditions of the grant/loan. if necessary make plans to start a junior section. 6 Clubs will be required to formally accept the contract offer letter and return the — Ensure, where necessary, you have the acceptance form within 30 days along relevant planning permission or written with any attachments to secure the confirmation that it is not required.