facilities grants

The facilities scheme gives grants for projects that:

• Improve facilities for football and other sport in local communities.

• Sustain or increase participation amongst children and adults, regardless of background age, or ability.

• Help children and adults to develop their physical, mental, social and moral capacities through regular participation in sport.

The types of facilities we give money for include:

• grass pitches drainage/improvements

• pavilions, clubhouses and changing rooms

• artificial turf pitches and multi-use games areas

• fixed floodlights for artificial pitches.

We also provide development (revenue) grants to deliver football development associated with the new facility e.g. coaching, football development officer etc.

The maximum grant available from the Foundation for each facilities project is £1m. However, applicants must show they have tried hard to get other funding for the project and that there is no further money available.

The most we can pay is 90% of the project costs, but we will only award as much as this in exceptional circumstances. For example, applications where there is an outstanding need for a facility and where the project will have a major effect on under-represented groups in football (such as women and girls, people on low incomes, black and ethnic-minority groups and disabled people).

We also provide (revenue) funding to deliver football development associated with the new facility e.g. coaching, football development officer etc. The maximum development funding that can be included with a facilities grant is 20% of the total grant awarded.

We have a fast track system for facilities grants of up to and including £20,000.