Postcode Places Trust Community Sports Grant

Every day across the UK, sport is used as a tool to improve health, to teach life-skills, to connect people and to strengthen communities. To be eligible for funding, your organisation must be using sport or physical activity to achieve one or more of the following outcomes:

• Improving health and wellbeing
• Reducing inequalities
• Empowering communities

You can only apply for one grant per organisation.

Funding offered is flexible, and we want to hear about the work your whole organisation does. The grant is unrestricted, meaning you can use it for anything that will help you. Typical examples of costs might include a contribution towards:

• Venue hire
• Utility costs e.g. heating or lighting
• Staffing and Coaching costs
• Volunteer expenses
• Kit and equipment
• Marketing and communications
• Training and qualifications
• Insurance and affiliations
• Facility development

Their Arts, Poverty, Marginalised groups and Mental Health themes are delivered through their main programme. Their environment theme is delivered through their partnership with The Wildlife Trusts, so please take their eligibility quiz to see if one of these programmes would be more suitable. If the core purpose of your organisation is around one of these themes, please apply to these programmes instead.

If your income in your last financial year is under £25,000 you can apply for their Groundwork programme instead.

They welcome applications from:

• Registered Charities – Organisations registered with either The Charity Commission in England or Wales, or with OSCR in Scotland.
• Community Interest Companies (CIC’s) with an asset lock (Schedule 1 and 2 only) – If the objects section in the governing document is blank or unclear, we will require the CIC36 ‘Community Interest Statement’ form to assess the application.
• Companies Limited by Guarantee with an asset lock – ensuring that the assets of the company are used solely for its objectives and not for private profit.
• Constituted clubs or groups (including CASCs) – with a constitution in place in the name of the organisation. The constitution should define the organisations objectives, outline the governance structure and decision making processes, detail financial procedures and have a dissolution clause in place.

Organisations must also meet the following criteria to be eligible to apply:

• Your organisation’s turnover should be under £1million in the most recent financial year (organisations with a turnover of less than £250k will be prioritised).
• For Companies/Charities, we require at least three Directors/Trustees to be in place with no more than 50% of those serving as Trustees or Directors related.
• For Companies, we require more than one person with significant control contributing to the company’s governance and decision making. This approach promotes accountability and ensures that the company’s operations are aligned with its stakeholders’ interests.
• The organisation’s aims and objectives must align with at least one of the funding themes (Improving health and wellbeing, Reducing inequalities or Empowering communities). Applications without clear alignment will be considered ineligible

Funding round dates for 2026 are:

Round 1: 9:00am 25th March – 12 noon 1st April

Round 2: 9:00am 24th June – 12 noon 1st July

Round 3: 9:00am 24th September – 12 noon 1st October

Application forms are available on their website.