£10 for every new supporter!

What's better than a fiver? A tenner! And that's how much easyfundraising will give your club every time someone new signs up to support you. Between 14 - 30 November, their usual £5 referral bonus doubles to £10, so your club can earn even more for free.

If your club isn't registered, now is the time to sign up to easyfundraising. easyfundraising is committed to helping local groups and communities' access vital funds. That's why they have partnered with over 7,000 brands that want to give back. It's simple - when an online shopper spends, the brand shares a percentage of what's been spent with your club - for free.

Veolia Environmental Trust: Community Grants

This scheme is available to constituted not-for-profit organisations, local authorities, and Environmental Bodies. Grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 are available for projects that improve an outside space or community building available for everyone and anyone to use on a daily basis. This can include structural improvement works to a single building or outdoor space which has public access e.g. community centre, public park, play area, skate park, MUGA, sports ground, woodland, nature reserve, community garden, public right of way or inland waterway.

The next funding round opens on 1^st December 2022 and closes on 5^th January 2023.

Youth Justice Sport Fund

The Ministry of Justice has identified new funding to invest in sports programmes across England and Wales that effectively deliver against criminal justice outcomes. The £5m programme will use sport to enhance positive outcomes for vulnerable young people in the context of youth crime. The funding is available to support voluntary and community sports organisations to carry out targeted work supporting children and young people who are at risk of entering the criminal justice system.

The application portal closes 9am Monday 5th December 2022.

New BBC Children in Need Grants

There are two new BBC Children in Need funding streams for charities and not-for-profit organisations working with children and young people aged 18 or under. Project Costs support the aims and delivery of a specific piece of work and Core Grants supports essential organisational and administrative spending.

Become a Supporter of 'Let's Get Moving'

Let's Get Moving aims to motivate you, me and every resident across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland to move more.

Through the collective use of the Let's Get Moving strapline, we want to bring about a movement of positive physical activity change. Bringing together those partners who are supporting local residents to be physically active.

Active Together will act as the backbone organisation of Let's Get Moving, however, we need individuals, communities and organisations to embed and drive this at a local level.

We hope that this approach allows our partner organisations more flexibility to use the Let's Get Moving strapline alongside your existing brands, products, programmes and can easily be included within your promotional materials.

We will still continue to provide material to support Let's Get Moving to land locally, for example through pre-written social media content / asset creation - all free for you to use!

EMR Community Fund

East Midlands Railway (EMR) Community Fund aims to support communities and organisations along the EMR routes that they serve. The EMR Community Fund is designed to inspire projects and make a difference to those that need it the most. The EMR Community Fund is open to: Community Rail Partnerships, Station Adoption groups, Charities, Community Interest Companies, Schools, Youth organisations and sports clubs.

Leicester City Anti-Poverty Community Grants

These grants are offered to local organisations to design and deliver projects that help tackle poverty and reduce its impacts in Leicester. They are particularly encouraging applications from anti-poverty projects that will benefit families and children, support mental health and target debt, help those who are digitally excluded, address the poverty experienced by those in work, and that have a sustainable theme.

Applications for round one of funding are now open, for grants of up to £10,000 and the deadline for applications is 7 December 2022 at 5pm. Larger grants will be available in the next round of applications, planned for 2023.

Joe Humphries Memorial Trust Inspire Awards

The Inspire Awards provide financial assistance to young people aged 13 to 21 years old who are permanently resident in Leicester or Leicestershire. The Awards are to be made to those individuals of proven ability who have potential to excel in their fields of sport, the creative arts, or their community, and reflect the spirit of the JHMT legacy. Funding can support young people preparing or training for a competition in a sporting activity or in need of help for the purchase of equipment. Support has been given to numerous athletes, swimmers, tennis players, cyclists and others.

Hockey funding for Leicestershire & Rutland

England Hockey have two new opportunities in Leicestershire and Rutland to help give underserved groups the opportunity to play hockey. The Inactive Adults Project targets community groups/councils and provides them with the tools to deliver Walking Hockey to inactive participants. The focus is on helping people to become more active and improving quality of life. The Club & Community Funding is to help hockey clubs or community groups to deliver hockey to new people. The focus needs to be on offering hockey to groups of people that have never had exposure to the sport or the opportunity to be involved before.

Tackling the increasing cost of living

There are many challenges arising from the current economic circumstances and the needs for operators to maintain financial and environmental sustainability. Active Together are continuously pulling together the latest support and advice for organisations on our 'Supporting Organisations' page. This includes Sport England's page on cutting energy costs for clubs and managing the impact of higher energy costs on community leisure provision.

Club Matters are running 'Share and Learn' cost of living sessions in November, December and January including dealing with increasing costs for asset and non-asset owning organisations and raising money to sustain your organisation. These sessions are FREE and ran online.