Opportunities for Funding for Projects
There is no magic solution…
Alison Randle BGA Development Officer

Putting your house in order
• Governing Document (Mem & Arts) – adopted and signed at an AGM
• Committee – all present and correct?! • Bank account – in Club’s name with
multiple signatures required
• Last years accounts – checked and signed • Minutes of the last AGM – Occasionally • Policies – copies and details of how available

Your Project
• What do you want to do? • Why do you want to do it? • Who will benefit? • How much will it cost? • How long will it take?

Your Resources

Your People • Paid staff • Volunteers • Involved • Interested • VIP’s • Local
businesses

Your Business • Normal running • Money generation • Fundraising • Borrowing • Donations

Donations
MONEY
• from people or businesses
‘IN-KIND’
• time and skills from people • Materials and goods from businesses

Purchase Site £3000  £5pa
Hard Landscaping £4500  £1000
Water Feature £800  £200
Plants £2500  £0
Equipment £1450  £1450

Survey £800  £0

Legal Fees £750  £50

COMMUNITY GARDEN MIND MAP
£21000

£4755
Size of Project

Plans £1200  £50
Maintenance £6000 pa salary  £2000 pa
Ethos
•Educational •Employment •Environmental
•Composting •Water management •Therapeutic •Sensory •Community Capacity Building •Skills •Meeting place •Community Cohesiveness

Types of projects

• New gliders • Buildings • Equipment • Environment related • Inter-generational • Community relations • Heritage • Arts
• (almost) anything

BUT!!!!!
How does it relate to: •The aims of your club? •The Business plan? •The needs of your membership? •The normal running of your business?

Funders
• Lottery • Government / Councils /
European • UK Grant Giving Trusts • Philanthropists

Support – pick’n’mix
(In no particular order!)
• Your local District Council • Your County Sports Partnership
(CSP) • The BGA • Appropriate professionals • Consultants • Your rather talented membership

Funders’ Requirements
1. What, when, who, how much, how long?
2. The answers FIT THEIR CRITERIA
3. That you will take good care of their money

• Simple • Straightforward • Logical

YES!
Myriad of
Funding Opportunities

BUT…..

Only IF

YOU
‘Place’ your project with
RESEARCH and SUPPORT