Welcome to the West Yorkshire Funding Page
West Yorkshire Sport provides funding information and support to clubs, groups and individuals and is updated regularly. This information includes national, regional, county, district, individual and non traditional opportunities and collates the information provided locally by our partners.
Please explore the opportunities and follow the links that may be helpful to you.
Please contact vicky.joel@wysport.co.uk for further information or to notify us of any additional opportunities.
Additional Information about funding applications
Search for lottery grants awarded in West Yorkshire
Recent updates and opportunities
Community Games provide a wonderful and unique opportunity for communities from all backgrounds right across the country to come together and celebrate the 2012 Games and enable thousands of people to experience and create their own Olympic or Paralympic moment.
In West Yorkshire there is up to £400 available for a limited time for the first 30 Community Games events that achieve the aims and help us achieve 22,500 visitors to the games in the county.
For more information click the Community Games logo
The MARS Refuel™ Drink Fund was set up to encourage people to play their favourite sport for longer. The MARS Refuel™ Drink Fund has one gold (£1000), four silver (£500) and eight bronze (£250) awards to donate to the most deserving applicants every month for the next six months.
Enter today!
West Yorkshire Coach and Leader Bursary Scheme
West Yorkshire Sport has launched a new funding scheme to encourage and support the personal and professional development of coaches and leaders working in West Yorkshire through subsidising the cost of National Governing Body qualifications.
Funding is available to Coaches and Sport Makers to gain a Level 1 or 2 Coaching Qualification or a recognised NGB leadership award.
Full details of the scheme are available on the Coaching West Yorkshire website.
Sport specific funding opportunities
Read the information below and click on the logos for more information on funding for specific sports!
The Angling Trades Association are this year offering funding to run National Fishing Month events, in the period which is 20th July – 27th August 2012.
Click the link below for the funding criteria and click the logo below to download an application form.
Any funding bids need to be returned to naidre@anglingtradesassociation.com
Funding Criteria for National Fishing Month
Popular funding opportunities
- Sportsmatch
- Small Grants
- Football Foundation
- Fields In Trust (Formerly the National Playing Fields Association)
- Womens Sports and Fitness Foundation (WSFF)
- Lottery Funding
- Sports Aid (Yorkshire + Humberside)
- Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS)
- UK Sport World Class Performance Programme
- Lords Taverners
- Mars Refuel Fund
- Cash 4 Clubs
- Sports Coach UK funding guide
Non Traditional Funding Streams
- Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT)
- Biffaward
- The Veolia Environmental Trust
- The Landfill Communities Fund
- SITA Trust Community Funding
- WREN
- The Prince’s Trust
- Grant Finder
- Funding Central
- Tudor Trust Grants
- BBC Children in Need Grants
- Comic Relief Grants Programme
- Sport Relief UK Programme
- The Dickie Bird Foundation
- West Yorkshire Police Community Trust
- Lloyds TSB Foundation
- Grassroots Grants Programme
- The Peter Harrison Foundation
- Key Fund Yorkshire
Other Useful Information
- Sponsorship for clubs
- HM Revenue & Customs
- Type 'free banking for clubs and societies' into a search engine for information on the products available.
- Community Amateur Sports Clubs
Funding Information
Published on: 22nd July 2011
