Barclays Community Sport Fund - Access Grant
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The Barclays Community Sport Fund offers grants, bespoke support, and exclusive ticketing opportunities to make football, tennis, and cricket more accessible to women and girls in communities across the UK.
There are two grants that you can apply for:
- Access grant: A grant to help sustain and increase access to football, tennis, and cricket for women and girls (as well as engage people from other underrepresented groups, such as people with disabilities, those from racially diverse communities and those from the LGBTQ+ community)
- Female coaches for girls grant: Funding for football, tennis, and cricket coaching courses to help increase the number of female coaches delivering sport to girls
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Geographical areas funded: UK
Fund type
- Type of funding:
- Grant, Other resources
- Type of cost:
- Capital, Revenue, Core costs
Fund award sizes
- Maximum:
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- Annually awarded:
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- Notes on award amounts:
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Who can apply
Not-for-profit organisations, including charities, community groups, youth groups and traditional sports clubs.
Groups must meet the following criteria:
- You deliver football, cricket, or tennis activities for women and girls – or are applying for funding to start.
- You operate in an area of high deprivation.* [*they use the Government Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) to establish eligibility and only organisations located in or supporting people from IMD areas 1-3 are eligible to apply.]
They will consider applications from groups engaging women and girls with disabilities or facing challenges of rural isolation, that are not in deprived areas.
When to apply
Currently closed as of Wednesday 27th May 2026.
This is a three-year funding programme running from April 2025 until December 2027.
How to apply
Apply online via the Sported website.
Exclusions
Activites funded: Sport and physical activity
Beneficiaries funded: Black and Ethnic Minorities Economically/socially disadvantaged LGBTQI people People in poverty Disabilities Women and girls Young people
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