Grants For Pitches And Facilities

The below funding opportunities are not an exhaustive list, but are easily accessible for affiliated clubs via The Football Foundation, for a wider list of grants available please visit our website: 

Small Grants (Up to £25k)

Clubs can apply for Small Grants of up to £25k per season. The Football Foundation are taking applications to invest in local facilities to help transform clubs and strengthen communities and make improvements such as:

• Goalposts
• Storage containers
• Portable floodlights
• Changing pavilion or clubhouse refurbishment
• Grass pitch improvement (including machinery, equipment and drainage)
• Fencing
• Small-sided facility improvement
• Creation of new grass pitches
• 3G pitch maintenance machinery and equipment

The Foundation will award a maximum grant of £25,000 that does not exceed 75% of the total project costs.

Grass Pitch Maintenance Fund

Clubs receive a tapered six-year grant to help them sustain pitches that are already at a 'good' level and enhance pitches that are either considered 'poor' or 'basic'.

To engage with this funding clubs need to complete pitch inspections via PitchPower using a mobile phone or tablet, which is sent to the experts at the Grounds Management Association (GMA), to produce an assessment report within 21 days, with bespoke recommendations. These recommendations will enable clubs to access the Grass Pitch Maintenance Fund which will fund the recommendations made by the GMA.

Depending on the size of the pitch being invested in, up to £3,200 (inc. VAT) per full size 11v11 pitch is available, reduced funding is available for 9v9 and mini-soccer pitches. There is no maximum number of pitches that can be funded on one site. The type of maintenance work that funding can support are:

• Slitting – contractor works
• Scarification – contractor works
• Decompaction – contractor works
• Selective herbicide (weed treatment) – contractor works
• Fertiliser – contractor works and/or purchase of materials 
• Overseeding – contractor works and/or purchase of materials
• Top dressing – contractor works and/or purchase of materials
• Soil samplers – purchase of specific type of equipment

More Information

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