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CLUB FUNDING & GRANT OPPORTUNITIES CLUB FUNDING & GRANT OPPORTUNITIES AS PART OF SWIM WALES’ ONGOING COMMITMENT TO SUPPORTING OUR AFFILIATED AQUATIC CLUBS ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS, WE HAVE CREATED A DOCUMENT DETAILING AN ARRAY OF FUNDING & GRANT OPPORTUNITIES. These opportunities are available for all Aquatic clubs to access and can be aligned to Club Development Plans. Version 2 - October 2020 1. ABERYSTWYTH TOWN 3. THE AVIVA COMMUNITY COUNCIL GRANTS FUND Aberystwyth Town Council grants are made The Aviva Community Fund offers you the for the benefit of people and projects local to chance to get funding for an important cause Aberystwyth. The maximum figure payable for in your community. Open to everyone - Aviva grants will be £5000. customers, employees, insurance brokers or financial advisers (whether associated with Applications are offered annually in April. Aviva or not) and the general public - we want Please keep check of the website for updated you to enter a project for your community information. and tell us what a difference these much- needed funds could make. Get enough votes www.aberystwyth.gov.uk/en/council/grants from friends, family and supporters in your community and your project could be entered into the Finals, where a judging panel will award the funds. www.aviva.co.uk/services/more-from-aviva/ aviva-community-fund/ 2. ASDA FOUNDATION 4. BBC CHILDREN IN NEED The ASDA Foundation assists registered Grants are awarded each year to organisations charities and community groups within the supporting disadvantaged children and young UK that require financial assistance. The people in the UK. Foundation only supports a limited number of requests that have the direct involvement from www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/grants ASDA colleagues. No minimum or maximum grant amount is stipulated, and applications may be made at any time. ASDA colleagues will typically support local charities, community groups, schools, playgroups, community centres and football teams. www.asdafoundation.org Version 2 - October 2020 Version 2 - October 2020 5. BIG LOTTERY - RURAL 7. BRUCE WAKE CHARITABLE PROGRAMME (WALES) TRUST The Rural Programme (Round two) is for The Trust will consider grant applications projects that will make a positive impact on relating to the provision of leisure activities for the lives of people and communities living people with physical disabilities. in poverty in rural Wales. This programme will fund partnerships that understand the brucewaketrust.co.uk/index.php/grants connection between the causes and effects of poverty, and propose solutions and services which use a joined-up approach to tackle the problem at its core. https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/ funding/covid-19 6. BOOST CHARITABLE TRUST 8. CASH 4 CLUBS Boost Charitable Trust was created in 2005 The scheme offers grants ranging from £250 to Build On Over-Looked Sporting Talent, to to £1,000 to community sports clubs based champion the disabled and disadvantaged and in the UK and registered with their sports’ to inspire them to overcome their challenges National Governing Body or local authority. through the power of sport. Application forms are available from the Cash 4 Clubs website. There are no deadlines for www.boostct.org submitting applications. cash-4-clubs.com Version 2 - October 2020 9. CEMEX FOUNDATION 11. COMIC RELIEF COMMUNITY FUND IN WALES The CEMEX Foundation is a dedicated grant resource for enabling and assisting Comic Relief and Third Sector Support communities local to CEMEX quarry and landfill Wales (TSSW) recognise the great work that sites to carry out projects which improve local community led organisations do across Wales community facilities and places of interest. and want to help organisations to build their The applicant should be within three miles of own capacity in a sustainable and impactful a Cemex site. Grants range from £1,000 to way. £15,000. Two types of grants will be available: Small grants £1,000 – £10,000 www.cemex.co.uk/cemexfoundation.aspx Large grants (for organisational growth) £30,000 – £60,000 www.wcva.org.uk/funding/comic-relief- community-fund-in-wales 10. COALFIELDS 12. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION REGENERATION TRUST IN WALES This programme is for community and The Community Foundation in Wales is a voluntary organisations that can strongly unique charity which promotes and manages demonstrate a grant will impact positively on philanthropy. Our role is to strengthen people living in the coalfield communities of communities in Wales by awarding grants to Wales. projects that make a sustainable impact on local needs, and to help our clients make the https://www.coalfields-regen.org.uk/wales_ most of their charitable giving. support/funding-wales/ communityfoundationwales.org.uk Version 2 - October 2020 Version 2 - October 2020 Version 2 - October 2020 13. SPORT WALES BE ACTIVE 15. FORD BRITAIN TRUST WALES FUND Small grants of up to £250 and large grants for We are standing by you, and we’re committed amounts over £250 and up to a maximum of to supporting Welsh sport and physical activity £3,000 are available. in any way we can. We want to ‘Protect’ and ‘Prepare’ what we see as the most valuable Applications open for projects focusing on assets in our communities – the clubs and education, environment, children, the disabled, community organisations or groups that help youth activities and projects that provide clear people be active and take part in sport. The benefits to the local communities close to Ford Be Active Wales Fund will invest £4million in UK locations. community and grassroots sport to help restart activity. www.ford.co.uk/experience-ford/about-ford/ ford-britain-trust https://www.sport.wales/beactivewalesfund/ 14. DICKIE BIRD FOUNDATION 16. FUNDING WALES The Dickie Bird foundation are able to support Funding Wales is a funding search platform young athletes and children participate in created by Third Sector Support Wales. sport, if they come from a disadvantaged You can search hundreds of grant and loan background. Applicants must be aged 16 or finance opportunities from local, national and under and must be unable to raise the finance international sources which may be able to through other means. Eligible costs include: support your club. • Sports kit • Sports equipment www.funding.cymru • Travel thedickiebirdfoundation.co.uk Version 2 - October 2020 Version 2 - October 2020 17. WELSH SPORTS ASSOCIATION (WSA) FUNDING 19. LANDFILL COMMUNITIES DATABASE FUND You will need to register with Third Sector An innovative tax credit scheme enabling Support Wales which is accessible through operators of landfill sites to contribute money the below WSA link. There are small and large to organisations. grants schemes available. www.wcva.org.uk/funding/landfill-disposals- https://funding.cymru/ tax-communities-scheme 18. KLUBB ONLINE 20. MAGIC LITTLE GRANTS Klubb is an online store which allows clubs Small one-off grants are available to small to access a huge catalogue of products and local charities and community groups in accessories. It’s an easy way to help raise Great Britain that are engaging hard to reach funds for your club, as up to 25% of every individuals, encouraging them to take part in purchase is paid directly to the club. physical activity to help improve their physical health. www.klubb.online www.localgiving.org/magic-little-grants Version 2 - October 2020 21. MERTHYR VALLEYS HOMES 23. VOLUNTARY SERVICES GRANTS AND SPONSORSHIP RECOVERY FUND SCHEME A Welsh Government grant administered by Sponsorship is offered for up to £1,000. the WCVA focusing on reducing the inequality Funding for informal (non-constituted) groups resulting from the pandemic. Grants will of up to £500 and funding of up to £5,000 for support not for profit organisations working formal groups, charities and social enterprises. at a community scale up to a national level in Wales and can be between £10,000 – www.mvhomes.org.uk/grants-and- £100,000. This fund is primarily focused sponsorship on revenue funding; however, your funding request can contain costs for purchases of smaller ‘capital’ equipment including consumables (for example PPE, screens etc). Grant period 2020-2021 financial year. https://wcva.cymru/voluntary-services- recovery-fund-now-open/ 22. MILLENNIUM STADIUM 24. NORTH WALES POLICE CHARITABLE TRUST AND COMMUNITY TRUST FUND (PACT) The Trust is keen to support volunteer-based projects, particularly from ethnic minorities Financial assistance is available to those who and people with disabilities. It also funds aim to improve quality of life by attempting equipment and coaching costs if the need is to reduce crime and the public’s fear of crime clearly identified by the applicant. The Trust is in all communities located in North Wales, particularly interested in supporting projects particularly projects that involve the local that improve the quality of life of people and police. (max. £2,000) communities facing disadvantage. www.pactnorthwales.co.uk www.millenniumstadiumtrust.org.uk Version 2 - October 2020 Version 2 - October 2020 25. ONE STOP CARRIERS FOR 27. YOUR DIGITAL FAMILY CAUSES A grant of £1,000 for any organisation that Carriers for Causes grants are available works with young people or families in the for good causes within two miles of a One UK to deliver a quiz event in the community. Stop shop. Grants, of up to £2000 will be The Quiz encourages families to share more available to support projects that ‘benefit local experiences and improve their communication communities - helping to improve lives and around digital. In doing so, it helps close the local places’. gap between young people and their parents. www.groundwork.org.uk/national-grants/ https://parentzone.org.uk/ydf carriers-for-causes 26. PANT-Y-WAL WINDFARM 28. PEOPLE’S POSTCODE COMMUNITY FUND TRUST The Pan-Y-Wal Wind Farm Community Fund This is a new funding stream for Wales, with has an allocation of £100,000 per year for grants of up to £5k currently available.