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Club Funding
 
Acquiring and maintaining funding is often the most challenging aspect of developing your club.
 
England Basketball recognise that funding on a national, regional and local basis is ever-changing picture and so will try to provide clubs with as clear a picture as possible through our club funding search facility and guide, 'Club Assist' newsletters and workshops and direct Emails to affiliated clubs.
 
The information provided by England Basketball is not exhaustive, however we hope it will assist all clubs in ensuring financial stability and a bright future.
  • Club funding search facility - In order to keep our clubs up to date on the changing funding opportunities available to them, we are working in partnership with j4b, a specialist organisation that identifies funding opportunities available to community groups.
     
  • Club funding guide - A document that gives a guide on how to apply as well as details on some of the major grant schemes.
     
  • 'Club Assist' newsletter - Club Assist is an E-newsletter that highlights funding opportunities and good practice examples and is available to all affiliated clubs.
Many funding sources are only available in certain regions. Therefore contacting your Local Authority Sports Development Officer/Department, County Sports Partnership or Council for Voluntary Services may help highlight local funding pots that are available to you.
 
Funding Case Studies - Sport England Small Grants Program
 
The Sport England Small Grants Programme was launched in April 2009 to provide valuable funding support to help sports clubs in their funding new activities and projects.
 
Since its launch many England Basketball affiliated clubs have applied successfully to the programme, to date England Basketball affiliated clubs have secured over £400,000 in funding to support development projects, with clubs accessing over £100,000 since April 2012.
 
Some examples of successful applications include -
  • A new weekly U18 Central Venue League
  • A series of new IM Basketball after school competitions
  • A new program of citywide 3v3 tournaments
  • Developing a new adult club
  • Providing a new U18 team to an existing basketball club
Sport England Small Grants allows clubs to apply for between £300 and £10,000 to help fund new development activities.
 
Next Steps
  1. Go to the Sport England website and read through the pre-application checklist and Small Grants Program Guidance 2012-13
  2. Set up your online application form
  3. Check the Sport England website and read the England Basketball guidance documents for helpful hints and tips
  4. Complete the online application and submit to Sport England
If you require support, advise and guidance during the application process or if you have an application that you would like advice on prior to submission, please contact Club Development Manager Matt Baird
 
England Basketball Club Funding
 
England Basketball offer funding opportunities and incentives, which currently entail -
 
Clubmark - Please see Clubmark section
Clubmark Incentive Scheme - Please see Clubmark section