Local Clubs Football Grants

Funding is available for the following:

• Goalposts
• Storage containers
• Portable floodlights
• Changing pavilions and clubhouses
• 3G pitch maintenance machinery and equipment
• Fencing
• 3G pitches
• Creation of new grass pitches
• Small-sided facility improvements
• Grass pitch improvement
• Grass pitch drainage
• Grass pitch maintenance machinery and equipment

For more guidance on the grants and eligibility criteria, please follow this link to the Football Foundation website.

Although the sports grants for clubs is flexible, there are some things that are excluded including:

• Facilities that are not available for community use
• Kit and equipment
• Projects intended for private gain
• Projects outside England
• Retrospective funding (for works that have already started or been completed)
• Routine maintenance and repairs resulting from wear and tear and not part of a grass pitch improvement programme
• Facility hire