Funding of Up to £5,000!
March 31st, 2008
Different county councils will work slightly differently, but in Suffolk at least, the new round of Youth Opportunity Fund money has been announced.
Your club Girls Section could win a grant of up to £5,000, or for a Capital Project, up to £10,000.
The application has to be led by players rather than adults, but possible ideas which could help a girls section and which came to my mind include:
“We don’t have enough players - a grant will pay for a coach to go into local schools and help us recruit”
“We can’t all get to away fixtures and joint training sessions - a grant will help pay for minibus rental”
There will, I am sure, be other things which come to your minds, and you will need to seek advice from you local Connexions Service.
In Suffolk at least, grants are decided upon locally, not county-wide, so if other counties work the same way, there should be very few instances of clubs competing with each other for funds.
For your information, follow the links for the Suffolk guidelines and application pack
In Suffolk, applications for the first round close on 15th May
