THE PETER HARRISON FOUNDATION OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROGRAMME
Small Grants of up to £5,000 and Major Grants of between £5,001 and £30,000 are available to UK registered charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) for sports-based projects providing sport and physical activity opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people and/or people with a disability.
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o Application deadline: WEDNESDAY 1st JANUARY 2025 (the programme reopens to applications on Friday 1st November 2024).
o Funder: The Peter Harrison Foundation (founded 1999. Charity number 1076579. Total value of all grants awarded during the year ended 31 May 2023: £2,048,341 (2022: £1,362,836; 2021: £1,514,803; 2020: £1,992,812)).
o Who can apply: UK registered charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs that have been registered with their appropriate regulatory body (for example, the Charity Commission for England and Wales) for at least 2 years.
o Key words: Capital, Revenue, Project Cost, Sport, Disability, Disadvantage, Developing Potential and Life Skills, Special Needs, Mental Health, United Kingdom.
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The Peter Harrison Foundation operates two grant programmes, with most grants awarded through its Opportunities Through Sport Programme. The programmes are:
1. Active Lives – the Foundation supports sporting activities that provide opportunities for people who are disabled, or for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential and develop personal and life skills. Applications are accepted from registered charities across the United Kingdom.
2. Positive Futures for Children and Young People – applications are accepted from charities where the beneficiaries are children and young people with special needs in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey; East Sussex and West Sussex.
The Foundation also operates a Discretionary Grants Programme (see the first heading under ‘Grant Programmes’). The trustees use these funds to support projects that are of particular interest to them, and which fall outside its open grant programmes.
Within its Open Programmes, the Trust will consider applications for capital, revenue or project funding and welcomes applications for physical activity initiatives that:
o Give a focus for skills development and confidence building through the medium of sport.
o Have a high degree of community involvement.
o Have a strong training and/or educational theme within the sporting activity.
o Help to engage children or young people at risk of crime, truancy or addiction, and
o Provide sporting equipment or facilities for disabled or disadvantaged people.
Charities that have been registered with the relevant regulatory body in their area for at least 2 years (for example, the Charity Commission for England and Wales, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator or the Charity Commission for England and Wales) may apply. Applications are not normally considered from local branches of national charities unless they are separately constituted.
Opportunities Through Sport offers the following funding:
1. Small grants of up to £5,000 (for organisations with a turnover of up to £500,000), and
2. Major grants of between £5,001 to £30,000.
Grants, which can be awarded for a single year or over several years, can also be for significant amounts (for instance, Loughborough University was awarded £100,000 in 2021 and has received up to £200,000 in previous years). There is no specific requirement for matched funding.
Funding is not available for:
o Activities that are primarily the responsibility of central or local government.
o Adventure Challenges or expeditions in the UK or abroad.
o Exempt charities.
o Individuals.
o Overseas projects.
o Projects that are solely for the promotion of religion, or
o Requests for retrospective funding.
To apply, eligible organisations are advised to follow the guidance on the Foundation’s website.
The programme reopens to applications on Friday 1st November 2024 with a deadline for applications of Wednesday 1st January 2025.
Contact details for the Foundation are:
The Peter Harrison Foundation
2nd Floor
Foundation House
42-48 London Road
Reigate
Surrey
RH2 9QQ
Email: enquiries@