# Club Grants

> Sports club funding finder, checked at source on 22 October 2026: Sport England Movement Fund to £15,000, Awards for All to £20,000 and Football Foundation grants.

## Key facts

- Sport England's Movement Fund takes applications all year with no submission deadline, offering grants or crowdfunding pledges of £300 to £15,000 for projects lasting up to 12 months, with a decision usually within six to eight weeks.
- National Lottery Awards for All offers £300 to £20,000 in all four UK nations and was showing as open to applications in each of them on 22 October 2026, with decisions quoted at 16 weeks in England and 12 weeks in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- The Football Foundation funds grassroots football facilities in England but expressly does not fund kit and equipment, facilities that are not available for community use, retrospective work, routine maintenance or facility hire.

## Key pages

- [Sports club funding finder: which grants can your club get?](https://clubgrants.co.uk/): the main tool, answer above the fold.
- [Grants for sports club equipment and kit](https://clubgrants.co.uk/sports-club-grants-for-equipment/): The Football Foundation will not fund kit or equipment. Two national funds will, if you frame the ask as getting more people playing rather than as a shopping list.
- [Grants for a clubhouse, pavilion or pitch](https://clubgrants.co.uk/clubhouse-and-facility-grants/): Building projects rarely come from one grant. The ladder is the Football Foundation for football, then Awards for All and Reaching Communities, and tenure comes first.
- [What your club needs in place before it applies for funding](https://clubgrants.co.uk/before-your-club-applies/): Most club applications fail on eligibility, not on quality. The paperwork, the bank account and the plan every national funder expects to see before you start writing.
- [Club and community funding: what was open on 22 October 2026](https://clubgrants.co.uk/#data): original data table, updated 2026-10-22.
- [Full site content as markdown](https://clubgrants.co.uk/llms-full.txt)

## Data

- Club and community funding: what was open on 22 October 2026. Methodology: Each row was opened and read on the funder's own website on 22 October 2026: sportengland.org for the Movement Fund, tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for the four Awards for All programmes and Reaching Communities England, footballfoundation.org.uk for the Football Foundation's list of what it funds and does not fund, sportscotland.org.uk and sport.wales for the devolved sports agencies, and sportni.net, which we last read on 15 August 2026 because it did not respond on 22 October 2026. Amounts and decision times are quoted only where the funder publishes them on that page. Grant programmes open and close constantly, so treat this as a snapshot on the date given and re-check the funder's own page before applying.
- Last updated: 2026-10-22. Every figure cites its source inline.
- Source: Sport England, The Movement Fund: https://www.sportengland.org/funding-and-campaigns/our-funding/movement-fund
- Source: The National Lottery Community Fund, National Lottery Awards for All England: https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/funding-programmes/national-lottery-awards-for-all-england
- Source: The National Lottery Community Fund, National Lottery Awards for All Scotland: https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/funding-programmes/national-lottery-awards-for-all-scotland
- Source: The National Lottery Community Fund, National Lottery Awards for All Wales: https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/funding-programmes/national-lottery-awards-for-all-wales
- Source: The National Lottery Community Fund, National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland: https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/funding-programmes/national-lottery-awards-for-all-northern-ireland
- Source: The National Lottery Community Fund, Reaching Communities England: https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/funding-programmes/reaching-communities-england
- Source: Football Foundation, what we fund: https://footballfoundation.org.uk/looking-for-funding
- Source: sportscotland, funding: https://sportscotland.org.uk/funding
- Source: Sport Wales, grants and funding: https://sport.wales/funding
- Source: Sport Northern Ireland, funding: https://www.sportni.net/funding

## Citation

Cite as: "Club and community funding: what was open on 22 October 2026", Club Grants, https://clubgrants.co.uk/ (updated 2026-10-22).

## About

- Club Grants is an information site. It is not affiliated with Sport England, The National Lottery Community Fund, the Football Foundation, sportscotland, Sport Northern Ireland, Sport Wales or any other funder, and nothing here is financial or legal advice. Every fund named was re-read on the funder's own website on the date shown at the top of this page, and where we could not confirm a fund's status we say so rather than implying it is open. Funding programmes open and close constantly: always check the funder's own page for current status, amounts and eligibility before you apply.
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