Barclays Community Sport Fund 2025 to 2027

Ongoing

One round of Barclays Community Sport Fund, which has run 2 rounds in total and has 2 open now.

Funding

Up to £1,000

Location

UK-wide

Applications

Rolling (always open)

Overview

The Barclays Community Sport Fund supports grassroots sports groups in deprived and rural areas. You can get up to £1,000 to make sport more accessible to women, girls, and under-represented groups. This includes people with disabilities, from diverse communities, and LGBTQ+ people. The fund focuses on community groups and sports organisations in the North West of England. Applications appear to be rolling with no set deadline. The funding runs from 2025 to 2027. You need to be working in the most deprived or rural areas to qualify.

Eligibility

Key requirements:

  • Must work in most deprived and/or rural areas
  • Must focus on accessibility for women, girls, and under-represented groups
Who is this for?

This fund is for community groups and grassroots sports organisations in the North West of England. You must be working in the most deprived or rural areas. Your work should focus on making sport accessible to women, girls, people with disabilities, diverse communities, or LGBTQ+ people.

Full details

Aims/priorities: The funding supports community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived and/or rural areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other under-represented groups including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+…

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Last updated: 3 August 2026