Grants

Innovate

We want to partner with organisations who challenge the status quo and develop creative solutions to open tennis up and improve lives through doing so. We're open to some risk and are interested in the reasons why activities work, or don't work, and in capturing and sharing this learning.

Scale

Have you got a project that improves lives through tennis and a concept that is proven to work? It could be so much bigger and better, but limited resources are holding you back? We want to partner with you to demonstrably scale it up.

Recover

We hope this theme is rarely accessed. We operate it to provide reassurance, so organisations know we’ll be there if they experience short term financial hardship, or operations ceasing, due to an economic, environmental, or other societal crisis.

Overview:

We want to partner with organisations who challenge the status quo and develop creative solutions to open tennis up and improve lives through doing so. We’re open to some risk, this is about test and learn – pilots don’t, and shouldn’t, always work.

Suitable for:

Any organisation, if it is properly constituted (see ‘Who’ guidance)

Min/max grant available:

£5,000-£50,000 total award.

As a responsible grant making charity, our assessment process looks at the financial records of applicants. As a general rule, we would not make an award that was more than 20% of your previously reported annual income.

Max duration of funding:

Ideally a one-year project, although a maximum of two years is allowable, to include all project set up, delivery and the completion of all monitoring and evaluation work.

Typical projects might focus on:

The project should focus on one or more of the following groups and/or outcomes, from both a participant and workforce perspective:

Groups who are more likely to experience inequalities of access, which could include:

• Lower socio-economic groups (ideally IMDs 1-4 [and equivalents outside England])
• Disabled people
• Ethnically diverse people
• LGBTQ+ people
• Women and girls
• Young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)
• Looked after children
• Older people
• Refugees

Outcomes:

• Improved physical health
• Improved mental wellbeing
• Improved personal development (especially: increased confidence, improved employability, improvement in educational attendance and / or behaviour)
• Improved social and community development (especially: reduction in antisocial behaviour, increasing social connectedness, reducing social isolation and bringing together people from different backgrounds)
• Improved environmental sustainability

If your project covers a group or outcome not listed above, please get in touch to discuss.

Other points to be aware of:

We’re unable to award unrestricted (core) funding via this theme.

Whilst this programme is opening with a broad and flexible approach, we reserve the right in future quarterly windows to focus on particular groups and/or outcomes.

This theme has been developed is to support revenue, rather than capital projects. Capital project applications will not be considered. . Please refer to the our Tennis & Padel Facility Funding programmes for capital support options.

We encourage applicants to demonstrate an element of partnership funding within your application, which can be in-kind, however, we don’t stipulate a specific percentage. Any partnership funding must be from a legitimate and legal source.

Consortium applications from two or more organisations are welcomed in this theme – please make this clear in the application form.

Overview:

Have you got a project that improves lives through tennis and a concept that is proven to work? It could be so much bigger and better, but limited resources are holding you back? We want to partner with you to demonstrably scale it up.

Suitable for:

Any organisation, if it is properly constituted (see ‘Who’ guidance)

Min/max grant available:

£10,000-£100,000 per annum.

As a responsible grant making charity, our assessment process looks at the financial records of applicants. As a general rule, we would not make an award that was more than 20% of your previous reported annual income.

Max duration of funding:

Three years

Typical projects might focus on:

The project should focus on one or more of the following groups and/or outcomes, from both a participant and workforce perspective:

Groups who are more likely to experience inequalities of access, which could include:

• Lower socio-economic groups (ideally IMDs 1-4 [and equivalents outside England])
• Disabled people
• Ethnically diverse people
• LGBTQ+ people
• Women and girls
• Young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)
• Looked after children
• Older people
• Refugees

Outcomes:

• Improved physical health
• Improved mental wellbeing
• Improved personal development (especially: increased confidence, improved employability, improvement in educational attendance and / or behaviour)
• Improved social and community development (especially: reduction in antisocial behaviour, increasing social connectedness, reducing social isolation and bringing together people from different backgrounds)
• Improved environmental sustainability

If your project covers a group or outcome not listed above, please get in touch to discuss.

Other points to be aware of:

Within this theme, we can award unrestricted (core) funding, as long as the application, and subsequent monitoring and evaluation, demonstrates the impact of our investment.

Whilst this programme is opening with a broad and flexible approach, we reserve the right in future quarterly windows to focus on particular groups and/or outcomes.

This theme has been developed to support revenue, rather than capital projects. Capital project applications will not be considered. Please refer to our Tennis & Padel Facility Funding programmes for capital support options.

We encourage applicants to demonstrate an element of partnership funding within your application, which can be in-kind, however, we don’t stipulate a specific percentage. Any partnership funding must be from a legitimate and legal source.

Consortium applications from two or more organisations are welcomed in this theme – please make this clear in the application form.

Overview:

We hope this theme is rarely accessed. We operate it to provide reassurance, so organisations know we’ll be there if they experience short term financial hardship, or the operations ceasing, due to an economic, environmental or other societal crisis.

Suitable for:

Tennis charities only

Min/max grant available:

£5,000-£25,000 total award 

Max duration of funding:

One year

Typical projects might focus on:

N/a

Other points to be aware of:

This theme is not operational via our online application form. Please get in touch if your circumstances align and we will open up a conversation.

Whilst we can support organisations who have faced significant financial hardship due to a genuine societal crisis, we are unable to provide support where the hardship is, in the main, due to prior poor management – financial, or otherwise.