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Individual funding

Funding can be available for:Ìý

• Talented athletes (often young athletes)
• Coaching
• Providing access to equipment to support disabled people to be active
  Volunteer development and training
• Turning great ideas into reality

There are some helpful tools out there to help you find funding. Some are even free (e.g.Ìý).

Trusts, foundations and other organisations are a good source of grants. Here are a few:

• The 911ÖÆÆ·Foundation supporting sailing centres, Sailability sites, other charities and foundations who organise the facilities and activities to get on the water.Ìý
• – enable and encourage sailing for all, including through individual grants.
• Ìý– Volunteer Instructor Training Grants
• Ìý– the UKS’s largest independent athlete support programme for talented athletes
• Ìý– national charity supporting international level young athletes and up to 35 for disabled athletes
• Ìý- funding and support for talented athletes from across the UK
• Ìý- grants for young disadvantaged people under 16 to participate in sport (travel and coaching not payable).
• Local Authorities – your local authority may provide a bursary to resident athletes and/or coaches and volunteers
• – helping young people under the age of 25 train and learn withÌý
• Ìý– giving disabled children the chance to achieve their sporting dreams
• Ìý- individual funding for people at all levels in sport from grassroots through to elite athletes

Sponsorship

Can you offer something a company, organisation or individual might want to support?

Sponsorship comes in different forms, most commonly financial (cash) and in-kind sponsors (goods or services). In return a sponsor will want some gain or benefit, from goodwill in the local community to guaranteed media exposure.

1. Work out what you have that is unique and of value that a company may wish to be involved in
2. Consider the time you will have to commit to your sponsor
3. Think about what a sponsor might be looking for – naming rights, endorsements, visibility on clothing and equipment, social media content etc.
4. Decide what you have to offer and be honest about what you can deliver – what audiences do you appeal to, what profile can you offer (the sport and you personally), what is the level of local interest
5. Do your research – the right industry, the right brand, the right contact
6. Create a document, make the approach and follow up