Barclays Community Sport Fund
Sport opens doors to skills that last a lifetime. That’s why Barclays is giving grants to community sports groups who need it most.
In partnership with Sported, the Barclays Community Sport Fund offers grants, bespoke support, and exclusive ticketing opportunities to make football, tennis, and cricket more accessible in communities across the UK*.
Since the fund’s inception in 2022, we’ve helped over 3,500 community groups to make sport more accessible, with over 550,000 young people supported by the fund so far.
The Barclays Community Sport Fund will open for applications in April 2025.
How can my club or group apply?
The £1.4 million-a-year fund provides grants to community groups that are:
- Making football, cricket, or tennis more accessible to women and girls
AND
- Operating in areas of high deprivation
What can I apply for?
- A £1000 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)
- Funding for football, tennis, and cricket coaching courses to help increase the number of female coaches delivering sport to girls
If successful for funding, your group will be able to access:
- Exclusive match tickets, mascot places, and promotional opportunities
- Access to advice and support and signposting to training and resources
About the Barclays Community Sport Fund
The Barclays Community Sport Fund, delivered in partnership with Sported, helps to reduce inequalities in sport – with a focus on football, tennis, and cricket.
The fund supports community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other underrepresented groups including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+ community.
The programme will support thousands of community groups across the UK with a total investment of £1.4million a year over three years.
*Eligibility criteria apply. UK only. Grants subject to availability. This is a three-year funding programme running from April 2025 until December 2027.
The fund in action
Sparking opportunities in Manchester
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A decade in football with Soho FC
For 10 years, Soho FC has given members of the LGBT+ community and allies a safe space to play football.
An Ian Wright and Kelly Smith ‘plasterclass’
We teamed up with Volunteer It Yourself to build female changing rooms at Cheetham Hill Sports Club.
Football opens doors to skills that last a lifetime
That’s why the Barclays Community Football Fund is giving grants to local sports groups who need it most.
About Sported
Sported is the UK’s largest charity supporting grassroots sport, supporting more than 5,000 groups across the country to use the life-changing benefits of sport to transform lives and strengthen communities.