Football For Change
About the Fund
The fund can consider a wide range of community projects from charitable organisations based within Merseyside or Greater Manchester.
Football For Change is investing in young people who face social and economic barriers when trying to reach their full potential. These are young people who’ve faced poverty and those who have experienced tough starts in life. We’re aiming to give them a platform to build better futures.
Projects do not need to be focused on football or sport specifically.
Fund Criteria
Social Mobility Projects
The fund will focus on projects that support young people by funding life-changing, social mobility projects in education, employment, and sport
Removing Barriers
The fund will support community projects that remove barriers to young people reaching their potential and inspire them to achieve.
Disadvantaged Young People
The young people will predominantly be those who are not in employment, education and/or those who have experienced social and economic challenges. The fund also focuses on supporting BAME communities.
Specific criteria
The areas covered by the fund are:
- Merseyside
- Greater Manchester
Examples of Projects
Education programmes supporting young people to gain access to higher education
Life-changing sporting opportunities that give young people the chance to access careers in sport or participate in sporting events that they wouldn’t normally be able to due to financial barriers
Training and apprenticeships/career development
Amount Available
Grants of up to £10,000.
Budget for this round is approximately £75,000 for Merseyside and £25,000 for Greater Manchester
Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside are a Real Living Wage employer therefore we encourage applications that include staff costs at the current Real Living Wage of £12.00p/h as a minimum.
The following items cannot be supported via the fund
- Statutory organisations or work that is their responsibility
- National organisations that cannot demonstrate local governance and control of local finances
- Commercial ventures
- Companies Limited by Shares
- Purchase/maintenance of vehicles
- Activities that will have already taken place before we offer you a grant
- Politically connected or exclusively religious activities
- Projects for personal profit
- Organisations that are set up for the sole benefit of animals or plants
- Groups comprising just one family or those that have less than 3 Trustees/Management Committee members/Directors
- Debts and other liabilities
- Reclaimable VAT
How to Apply?
An online application form can be completed via the “Apply Now” button below. You can attach supporting documents to your online application, or email them to us at applications@cflm.org.uk.
Documents which need to be included with your application:
- A copy of your governing document.
- A copy of your latest annual accounts or income/expenditure document.
- A copy of a recent bank statement for your group. If you do not have a bank account in place, you must be able to nominate another organisation to hold the funds (CVS, another local charity, church etc.).
- A list of your Trustees/Directors/Management Committee members. A minimum of three un-related must be in place.
- A copy of your current Safeguarding Policy. All applicants must ensure that they hold relevant policies and procedures in place to undertake activities, such as Criminal Records Bureau checks and/or a health and safety policy, depending on proposed activity. If unsure, we recommend taking advice from your local CVS..
If you have applied to us within the last 12 months and provided this information, we do not need you to send it again, although we may require a more recent bank statement.
Completed applications are considered by Community Foundation staff to check eligibility. You may be contacted for more information after applying and a decision-making panel will make recommendations based on the fund’s criteria and the budget available.