Application Form

Organisation and site details

  1. Name of organisation and legal status

  1. Name of site:
Postcode:
Ownership - state freehold/leasehold, and length of tenure/hire only:
Or
Are you a sports club that rents/hires facilities?
  1. Charity registration number (if applicable):

Contact details

  1. Name:
Address:
Telephone & Mobile:
Email & Website
(if applicable):

Project details

  1. Name of project and brief description
Max 500 words
(see reference note below):
  1. How will the Playing Fields Legacy Fund grant make a difference to your project?
Max 500 words
(see reference note below):
  1. Project outcomes: describe how they meet the funding criteria of PFLF. Please also state baseline and predicted participation figures.
(see reference note below)

Project detailscontinued

  1. Describe Project activities:
Max 500 words
  1. Describe how it will be managed:
Max 500 words
  1. Total Cost of Project
(state if estimate):
  1. Amount requested

  1. List other funding sources, stating whether confirmed or not:

  1. Start and completion dates:

Your completed form should be emailed to or posted to Playing Fields Legacy Fund, 58 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QT

Please enclose:

Constitution document (if any)

Latest audited accounts

Latest bank statement

VAT status

Two reference letters of support from either your local authority, county sports partnership, governing body of sport, or your county playing field association.

Insurance details/evidence of cover for public indemnity/public liability

Reference note to 5, 6 and 7 (see above).

It is helpful if the project benefits children/young people/the disabled or disadvantaged, or is located in an area of deprivation. It is also helpful if (as in 12 above) it can be shown that support has/will come from other sources and/or local business.

Reference note to 7 (see above).

Funding priorities for PFLF:

  • Increasing the number of people participating in sport across the country
  • Establishing voluntary playing field groups in parts of the country where none exist, particularly in the inner city areas.
  • Training leaders of local voluntary clubs and organisations who are managing the playing fields. The training will include helping these voluntary clubs to make high quality applications for funding from the state sector, such as the Lottery, and big sporting organisations such as the Football Foundation and Sport England
  • Helping the volunteer groups to create partnerships with local branches of national sporting bodies (such as the FA), working to protect and make fuller use of existing playing fields.
  • Providing seed money to stimulate new investment in playing fields such as drainage, levelling, returfing, ATPs, MUGAs, pavilions and floodlighting.
  • Providing matched funding to unlock grants from other bodies, such as Sport England, Football Foundation etc.

The Assessment Process

The PFLF grants subcommittee will require applicants to demonstrate:

  • Evidence of strategic need – why is your project necessary?
  • Sports participation outcomes – how will it lead to more people playing sport?It would help if applicants can demonstrate, for example, that the completed project will result in more sports clubs or teams being able to use the pitches and facilities regularly.
  • Long term sustainability
  • Value for money
  • Partnership funding – i.e. evidence that the majority of funding will be derived from other sources
  • If the funding request is focused on a specific playing field, the applicant must have a freehold interest, or a lease with at least 25 years remaining, or be prepared to put the field into trust.

What we won’t fund

  • Help with the general running costs of an organisation.
  • Repeat or regular events, or repeat funding of projects previously funded by other grant bodies.
  • Retrospective funding - the PFLF does not fund projects that have already started.
  • Items which only benefit an individual, e.g. bursaries or kit and equipment that is not shared.
  • Projects intended primarily at private or personal gain.
  • More than £10,000 to the same organisation in any 12 month period.
  • The erection of temporary buildings.
  • Sponsorship, endowments or loan repayments.
  • Projects that require planning permission that is not yet in place.
  • Projects that will not start within the next 12 months.
  • Projects that take place and incur costs before the date of the Grant Award letter.